Chapter 1: The Force will guide me

Author's Notes:

Well, here it is, my own crossover with Star Wars. I hope all of you will enjoy this, this is my second story I started writing on. I hope you'll enjoy it.

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From below the stars, of a jungle planet, known as Endor, home of the Ewoks, small native critters who in hand, helped a large number of people from different worlds, known as the Rebellion, defeated the tyranny of the Empire, and freed the galaxy of their endless torment. With the Emperor gone, the Empire is left in shambles as many worlds now stood up to the Empire, whilst the remnants of their fleets were scattered and were trying to keep certain footholds of the galaxy. The worlds from every world; Coruscant, Tatooine, Cloud City, Naboo. Kashyyk, Lothal, Ryloth, Kamino and many others, celebrated and rejoiced over the defeat of the Emperor.

The Rebels celebrated with the Ewoks, as many rejoiced in laughter, dancing and music, especially the Rebels thanking each other as they embraced them in their arms. The heroes of the Rebellion; Han Solo, Leia Organa, Lando Calrissian, Chewbacca, R2-D2, C-3PO, and finally, Luke Skywalker, were praised as the heroes of the Rebellion, and soon, the New Republic.

However, the next morning, the Rebels packed up their things and left for their homes to start rebuilding the Republic back to its former glory. But whilst things were underway, Luke decided to teach Leia the ways of the Force, and also trained her as a Jedi, knowing that she will have to face certain trails in the future. Luke on the other hand, stood near one of the balconies, watching the sunrise, as if he was back home on Tatooine.

‘Master Luke?’ said a robotic, but familiar voice. Luke partially turned around, and saw it was 3PO. ‘Are you alright?’

He noticed that 3PO wasn’t alone, for Han, Leia and the others were there with him, wondering what Luke was thinking.

‘You okay there kid?’ said Han Solo, mostly Luke’s rival, but also best friend, taking a step forward, also wondering if he was okay ‘You barely said anything since you came back from the Death Star.’

‘A lot had been on my mind recently.’ said Luke as he looked back at the horizon ‘I’ve decided to leave.’

‘Excuse me kid?’ said Lando when he was surprised by what Luke had said ‘Why?’

Luke turned around as he faced them, telling them what was on his mind. ‘With both the Emperor and my father gone, and the Empire are left in shambles, every world is now free from their grasp. But the galaxy will look to all of you to rebuild the Republic to its former glory.’

Chewbacca asked Luke in his native tongue what he was going to do, with Luke answering ‘To rebuild the Jedi Order.’

The others had a hard time grasping what he had in mind, but Leia only smiled when she knew the path her brother was going to walk on ‘Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in the force. Which is why I have to leave, to find a way to rebuild what had been lost since the fall of the Jedi Order.’

‘But where will you go from here?’ asked Han ‘There’s not much knowledge to find on the Jedi Order. And you can forget about going back to the temple on Coruscant. Even though the Emperor’s gone, the Imperials still remain in control there, even the Emperor used that temple as his own personal office.’

‘The only thing I can do, Han,’ said Luke as he had some kind of idea ‘Is to trust enough in the Force to guide me to where I need to go.’

Luke looked at Artoo, gaining the droid’s attention as he said ‘Artoo, ready my ship, we’ll be leaving soon.’

Artoo beeped, responding to Luke’s command.

1 hour later

Sure enough, Luke’s friends, even Wedge Antilles and Admiral Ackbar, came to see him off. One by one, each of them embraced Luke as he bid them farewell.

‘Do look after him Artoo.’ said 3PO when he greeted Artoo ‘I’ll miss you terribly.’
Artoo beeped, knowing that the feeling was mutual.

Han was the first to hug Luke, then broke it as he said ‘Don’t forget about us kid. And if you’re ever in trouble, just know that Chewie and I aren’t far behind.’

Chewbacca made a happy grunt as he hugged Luke, with Luke managing a slight giggle. ‘I will, and thank you.’

Luke hugged Lando next, with Lando telling him ‘Even though we’ve only met for such a short time kid, just know that you’ll always have a home to come back to. If you ever miss it, that is.’

‘Don’t worry, I understand.’ said Luke with a smile.

Wedge walked over and shook Luke’s hand. ‘Just so you know sir, I wouldn’t be here if it weren't for you. Just so you’ll know, if you also need help, we’ll be there.’

‘Thanks Wedge.’ said the smiling Luke.

Admiral Ackbar was next up to step forward, and personally shook Luke’s hand. ‘It’s been an honor fighting alongside you, Master Skywalker.’

Luke agreed as he said ‘The feeling’s mutual Admiral Ackbar.’

Luke greeted Leia last. She looked worried, afraid that she’ll never see her brother again. But Luke only smiled as he said ‘This is never goodbye Leia.’

‘I know.’ said Leia as she smiled. ‘I just wished I could go with you.’

‘You already learned what you need to know about the ways of the Force.’ said Luke as he reassured her ‘That is why I trust you that you will be a great leader for the Republic. The galaxy couldn’t be in better hands.’

The two of them embraced their sibling hug. After half a minute, Luke broke the hug as he looked at his sister and friends one last time. Luke turned around and made for his X-Wing, whilst Artoo was climbing on board as well. After Luke boarded, he activated his ship, priming the engines.

‘Luke.’ said Leia, gaining her brother’s attention. Leia only smiled as she said ‘May the Force be with you.’

‘Thank you Leia,’ said Luke as he replied ‘May the Force be with all of you. And I will return, I promise.’

Luke took control of his ship, allowing his X-Wing to be raised in the air, and fly right towards the sky. Sure enough, he began to leave the atmosphere and the planet behind, whilst the Rebel ships held their position as they prepare their forces to make their way towards other systems.

After they were cleared, Artoo beeped, asking Luke where they were going.

‘That I am not sure Artoo,’ said Luke, whilst he piloted his ship ‘We just have to trust in the Force and know where to go from here.’

Luke slowly closed his eyes and concentrated. His thoughts continued to echo throughout the Force, trying to determine where to go next. Before he realized it, he felt a tremor in the Force, allowing him to slowly open his eyes, knowing where to go.

‘Artoo,’ said Luke as he gained his friend’s attention. ‘Is there any Imperial presence on Pillio?’

Artoo beeped, as it told Luke that there weren't any and the planet’s un colonized.

‘Alright then, set a course for Pillio.’ said Luke as he worked on the controls ‘We found a way.’

As the X-Wing continued to fly, the engines primed as they went into overdrive, allowing the ship to jump to Hyperspace, disappearing without a trace.

Sure enough, he arrived near the planet Pillio. Luke continued to pilot his X-Wing towards the planet. He looked at his scanners, and noticed that it was all clear, but noticed that there were indigenous life on the planet. After Luke passed the planet’s atmosphere, he looked upon the planet’s surface and noticed that there was a clearing below him. He flew down towards the clearing and was able to make a safe landing. Whilst he turned the engines of his ship off, Artoo climbed off of the ship and moved towards the edge in order to take in the scenery.

Luke only smiled and nodded his head as he watched Artoo enjoying himself. As he climbed off the ship, he suddenly stopped. Through the Force, he felt something coming. ‘I sense…that we’re not alone.’

Luke heard the sound of engines from a shuttle. He walked towards Artoo as he spotted what was coming; a pair of Imperial Shuttle, slowly descending as it was about to make a landing. Luke stood next to Artoo and watched as the shuttle was slowly landing from afar.

‘If the Empire’s here,’ said Luke as he watched the sky, with Artoo by his side ‘Then what I sensed is true. There must be something special about this place.’

Artoo beeped, wondering what they were going to do next. Luke turned around to face his robot friend.
‘You stay here Artoo,’ said Luke as he instructed his friend ‘Their scanners probably spotted us.’

As Luke moved forward, and Artoo staying behind, the Astro droid worries for Luke’s safety as it asked him to be careful.
‘I’ll be find Artoo’ responded Luke as he moved forward ‘You stay here, alright?

Luke left Artoo with the ship as he went on ahead. He followed a path leading straight towards the Imperial Shuttle. Following the ridge path, he slowly stood near a ledge and watched from above as a handful of Storm Troopers were all over the place. But thankfully, he spotted two more Storm Troopers regrouping with the others as he heard them talk.

‘So remind me what we’re doing here?’ said the first Storm Trooper to the second.

‘We’ve had orders to come here and secure this sight, that’s it.’ said the second, which was clearly a female.

‘I don’t get why we have to follow some agent to this place.’

‘You’ll do well to keep quiet, do you know who that is?’

‘Nope.’

‘That happens to be an agent of Inferno Squad.’

‘Versio’s group?’ said the first Storm Trooper.

‘Precisely,’ said the second ‘And if the Admiral ordered him to come here, then we are not to question his orders.’

Luke cupped his chin whilst he was deep in thought. ‘Hmm, Looks like the Empire is searching for something too.’

However, one of the Storm Troopers spotted Luke and shouted “Intruder!!’

The Storm Troopers looked above and saw Luke. ‘Sith Spit.’ he said to himself.

‘Fire!!’ shouted the Storm Trooper Lieutenant.

Luke immediately jumped off the ledge whilst trying his best to avoid enemy fire. By jumping off the ledge, Luke immediately pulls out and activates his green Lightsaber, surprising the Storm Troopers.
‘It’s a Jedi!!’ shouted one of the Troopers.

As Luke landed, he sliced one Trooper to the left, one Trooper to the right, and Force Pushed the one in the middle, sending the Trooper flying against a shuttle the moment he crashed against it. Seeing what was going on, the rest of the Storm Troopers advanced. They attacked all around, but Luke blocked their fire with his Lightsaber, killing two Strom Troopers, whilst he spun around to continue blocking their attacks whilst he sliced one, then the other. He jumped up in the air and used a Force Pulse on the ground, causing the Storm Troopers to be knocked sideways. Luke darted his way towards the Storm Troopers guarding the entrance.

A sniper tried to shoot, but Luke deflected it, killing the sniper trying to kill him. A handful of jetpack troopers tried to kill him from above, but Luke used the Force to pull them and throw them towards the Storm Troopers on the ground. He continued to dart towards them, slicing one to the left, then one to the right, then one up front. He Force Pushed a handful of them again as they crashed against the mountain wall.

Luke made his way towards the tunnel entrance, until an Imperial Officer tried to stop him. ‘Hold it right there!!’ he shouted, causing him to shoot, but Luke deflected it, killing the Officer as the blaster round struck his chest.

Luke sighed, knowing that he didn’t enjoy this kind of fight. ‘This isn’t what I wanted.’

He continued to make his way through the tunnel, following the path that he hope would lead him to where he should go. But as he continued his path, he felt a disturbance in the force. ‘There’s something down here. Something…unnatural. Is that what called to me? Perhaps it was something more.’

Luke continued to make his way towards an opening ahead. But as he was able to get a better view, he saw the Storm Troopers, fighting off what appeared to be large bugs. Luke guessed that the bugs didn’t like intruders and they would kill anyone on sight.

‘Looks like I’m not the only one who wishes the Empire wasn’t here.’ said Luke to himself, seeing how the fighting got worse.

When all of a sudden, he heard shouting, coming from one of the tunnels. Was the agent also down here? He had to be sure.

The agent on the other hand, was not having a good day. He was trapped in whatever fungus he was in, whilst the Storm Troopers who accompanied him, were all dead. He struggled to get loose, whilst he tried to call for help.

‘Hello?!’ shouted the agent, trying to call for help ‘Can anyone hear me!!’

He struggled to get lose still, until he saw someone up ahead, coming from the light of the tunnel. ‘Who are you?’ said the agent, wanting to know who was coming.

‘I heard you call out.’ said Luke as he revealed himself ‘Sounded like you needed help.’

‘Yeah I do.’ responded the agent as he looked at Luke ‘You think you can get me out of this?’

Luke took a quick glimpse behind him, wanting to make sure no one would ambush them. He then made his way towards the agent, whilst at the same time, he pulled out his Lightsaber. ‘Hold still.’ he replied, whilst he activated his Lightsaber.
With his Lightsaber, Luke used it to carefully carve the hardened fungus, allowing the agent to use all his strength to pull himself free. Sure enough, the fungus shattered, freeing the agent. However, he was instantly cautious, for he knew all too well who the person was standing before him.

‘I know who you are,’ replied the agent, keeping an eye on him ‘Why’d you help me?

‘Because you asked.’ said Luke with a straight face.

However, before they could continue with their conversation, the large bugs that the Storm Troopers have fought before, burst through the cave walls, gaining both the agent and Luke’s attention. Luke armed himself with his Lightsaber, preparing for combat.

‘No, no, no, no,’ said the agent as he gained Luke’s attention. ‘That won’t do it. This will.’

The agent instantly tossed a Thermal Detonator towards the bugs. ‘No wait!!’ shouted Luke, but it was too late as the grenade went towards the bugs, causing it to explode.

The detonator may have destroyed the bugs, but in doing so, it ended up cracking and splitting the ground they were standing on in two, causing them to fall in. The two of them continue to fall from a large height. The agent fall against part of the cave wall, and onto a puddle, making him groan on impact, whilst Luke used the Force to stop himself before he made impact.

The agent looked up, and gasped when he saw the rocks were about to fall on him, until they suddenly stopped. The agent looked at Luke, whom was using the Force to save the agent’s life. Luke pulled the rocks away from the agent and landed it next to him.

As Luke placed his Lightsaber away, the agent groaned whilst he slowly tried to get up. That was, until Luke walked over and offered him a hand of assistance. Though he was still cautious, the agent was grateful that Luke saved his life, thus allowing his assistance. Luke helped the agent stand on his two feet. They looked at each other for a brief moment, until Luke walked over to pick up what appeared to be the agent’s blaster.

‘I’ve heard a hundred stories about the Jedi,’ said the agent as he watched Luke. ‘They terrified me as a boy on Coruscant, but you…’

Luke picked up the agent’s blaster and looked at it, then to the agent. Luke managed a smile and walked over to the agent and presented him his blaster.’ Come on. We need to work together if we’re going to get out of here.’

The agent accepted his blaster back, which allowed the two of them to focus on the path ahead, hoping not to run into the bugs. They continued their path forward as Luke was the first to respond.

‘You’re looking for something.’ said Luke as he walked ahead. ‘So am I. It seems the Force has brought us together.’

‘Heh,’ said the agent when he chuckled a bit ‘What a stroke of luck.’

‘There’s always more to it than luck.’ said Luke whilst he was focused on the path ahead.

‘Right, the Force.’ said the agent as he had a hard time believing him. ‘Is that what got you past my men, or was it the Lightsaber in your hand?’

‘I’m sorry.’ said Luke as he was apologizing ‘It’s not what I wanted.’

‘Then why am I still alive?’

‘They didn’t give me a choice. You did.’

The two of them continued down the path of the cave, until Luke spoke.

‘I didn’t quite catch your name.’ said Luke as he partially looked at him.

‘Del,’ said the agent as he gave him his name ‘Del Meeko.’

‘Good to meet you Del.’ said Luke, continuing on the path ahead.

Sure enough, half an hour later, they arrived at the Emperor’s observatory. After fighting some bugs and deactivating most of the defenses, they were able to make it to the door. However, the bugs suddenly flew away, not wanting to be near the place.

Del looked at the door as he said ‘Whatever’s inside these doors. Those bugs don’t like it.’

However, when Del stood in front of the doors, he noticed that there was no access panel or anything else that would allow him to open the door. ‘There’s nothing on this thing. How am I supposed to open it?’

‘With a key.’ Luke responded. He reached out his left hand and closed his eyes. He used the Force to open the door, taking Del by surprise as he looked at it.

After the door was opened, Del looked at the door as he asked ‘Why would the Emperor have a vault that can only be opened using the Force?’

‘Why do you think?’ said Luke as he approached the entrance.

Del looked at him surprised as he asked ‘You’re telling me the man who destroyed the Jedi Order is secretly one of them?’

‘No,’ said Luke as he stopped and looked at Del ‘I’m telling you that as a boy on Coruscant, you were frightened of the wrong thing.’

Sure enough, as they got inside, they saw many caskets, as well as a few leftover droids. From what one would call the “Spoils of war”, which was uncharacteristic, even for the Emperor. As Luke used the Force to look for something, Del looked around and was unimpressed.

‘There’s nothing dangerous in here,’ said Del as he looked around ‘The Emperor is protecting, junk.’

Luke continued to observe one of the crates. Until he stopped and felt something, allowing him to approach the crate and was about to open it. ‘This is all worthless.’ said Del when he felt like his mission was for nothing.

The moment Luke opened the crate, he saw something that caught his attention. ‘Not all of it.’ he responded whilst picking up what appeared to be a large circular object.

Del noticed what Luke was holding and was curious as he said ‘What is that?’

Luke looked at Del and asked ‘I’d like to keep this Compass. If you don’t mind.’

Del walked over to Luke and said ‘My mission is to destroy this place. Why would I let you do that?’

‘Because I asked.’ said Luke. Del gave it some thought, and because he saved his life, Del nodded yes, with Luke being thankful as he said ‘Thank you.’

Luke walked towards the door, with Del watching him. But Luke stopped as he said ‘I won’t stop you from destroying this vault. But wouldn’t you say that the Empire has done enough damage to innocent worlds?’

Luke walked away, whilst Del held onto the explosive he was holding, having second thoughts.

Fifteen minutes later…

Both Luke and Del walked out of the caves as they were finally above the surface. As they walked together, Luke said to him ‘I’m glad we were brought together Del.’

‘So what happens now?’ said Del whilst he was unsure ‘We both walk off in separate directions and pretend like this never happened?’

Luke chuckled a bit as he responded ‘I don’t think you can. There’s still conflict in you.’

‘Of course there is.’ said Del as he and Luke stopped, looking at one another. ‘I’m not blind, I know what the Empire is capable of. But what else is there?’

Luke turned to him as he smiled. ‘A choice.’

‘The Rebellion?’ said Del when he thought Luke was stating the obvious.

‘No,’ said Luke ‘A choice to be better. May the Force be with you.’

Del could only watch as Luke walked away, giving him some thought about what he said. But as Luke walked, he looked at the Compass he was carrying. But as he looked at it, he saw a secret compartment. Inside were a parchment of coordinates to what he guess would be from different planets, with a small note, saying that they were Jedi Temples.

‘If there are Jedi Temples on those worlds.’ said Luke to himself whilst he looked ahead ‘Then maybe I’ll be able to find what I’ve been looking for.’

Few months later…

Meanwhile, on the planet Takodana, Luke landed on the planet to take a break. He felt exhausted after traveling for so long. He sat underneath a large oak tree on a large hill, overlooking the lake, whilst he was eating a few sandwiches and drank some juice. Luke couldn’t help but admire the view of the place as he smiled.

‘I can see why Maz chose this place.’ said Luke to himself.

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Luke to his left and saw Artoo coming. ‘What is it Artoo?’

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‘Leia is contacting me?’ said Luke as he wondered what his sister wants. ‘Put her through.’

R2 displayed a hologram of Leia near him, whilst communications were now open between them.

‘Leia.’ said Luke as he placed his glass down ‘It’s good to see you again. I hope rebuilding the Republic hadn’t dampen your spirits yet.’

‘Thankfully not.’ said Leia as she chuckled ‘We may have a long way to go, but so far rebuilding the Republic Senate was not that hard of a task. Maintaining order however, is another.’

‘And the Empire?’ said Luke when he wondered what they were up to.

‘So far they hadn’t made our jobs any easier.’ said Leia with a sigh ‘We have recent reports that they were on a few Empire controlled worlds, but so far nothing.’

‘At least you’re on the right path.’ said Luke, whilst he also started to look onto the horizon, wanting to know what to do next.

‘Is something wrong?’ said Leia, knowing that Luke was troubled.

Luke decided to put her up to speed and wanted to know what he was busy doing. ‘After I left, I went straight for the planet Pillio. The Emperor has an observatory there, but I was also able to find what appeared to be a compass.’

Luke showed her the compass, as well as a list of what appeared to be coordinates of certain planets. ‘The compass had a secret compartment inside, revealing locations of a handful of Jedi Temples built by the first Jedi.’

‘What were you hoping to find?’ said Leia, knowing full well how important the mission is.

‘Finding what I need to rebuild the Jedi Order.’ said Luke as he placed the compass away.

‘And?’

‘So far I’ve got nothing.’ said Luke as he told her ‘Ahch-To had a temple, but it didn’t contain any knowledge there, Ryndellia’s temple was destroyed by a powerful storm, Tython has been destroyed during the last Sith War, the Temple on Toydaria had been raided by pirates during the last two decades. I had hoped the Temple of Takodana would still be here, but Maz told me that it was destroyed when an earthquake struck this world.’

‘Oh.’ said Leia when she realized that Luke had hit a stalemate. ‘So what will you do now?’

‘I don’t know.’ said Luke whilst he looked to the sky ‘For the first time in my life since after the Death Star’s destruction. I don’t know.’

‘Luke.’ said Leia whilst she gained his attention as he looked at her ‘You’ll find a way, you always have. When you left to face Vader, none of us thought that you’d make it. But in the end you came through. Because of you, the galaxy is in a much better place. You gave them hope when you destroyed the first Death Star, you inspired the entire galaxy that the Empire wasn’t invincible. So believe me when I say; I know you can figure this out. You can do this.’

Luke managed a smile as he looked at his sister. ‘Thanks Leia. I appreciate the pep talk.’

‘You’re welcome. And you know that if you need help, we’ll always be there.’

‘Thanks Leia.’

Leia managed a smile as she said ‘I’ll talk to you soon.’

After the transmission were cut, Luke took out the parchment of lists, each of them that he marked of the places where he had already been. ‘But where to go next.’ he wondered to himself.

As he held onto the parchment, he noticed something. The paper appeared to have been folded for some reason. As he was able to open it, he saw a new set of coordinates. He was surprised, for it appeared to be another set of coordinates to hopefully another Jedi Temple.

‘Artoo?’ said Luke, gaining the droid’s attention as he moved over to him. ‘Can you help pinpoint this set of coordinates?’

Sure enough, R2 was able to display a hologram of the entire galaxy. It added the coordinates that Luke had held onto. But to his surprise, it was beyond the galaxy’s border, way past the place called the “Unknown Regions”. ‘It’s that far away?’ said Luke as he looked at the map. ‘Why would the first Jedi have traveled to such a place very far from here?’

‘Found something, have you?’ said a voice, gaining Luke’s attention whilst R2 deactivated the galaxy map. When Luke turned around, he saw that Maz was there, walking over towards him.

‘Yes. I believe it’s a location to another Jedi Temple, but this one is different.’

‘Oh?’ said Maz as she was very curious.

‘The last temple is located beyond the galaxy map,’ said Luke whilst explaining to her ‘Beyond the “Unknown Regions”. I was wondering why the first Jedi would built a temple this far away.’

‘If you ask me, it’s a very smart thing.’ said Maz when she heard Luke correctly about the Jedi Temple’s location. ‘When the Empire took over, they used the Jedi Archives to track down and either harvest or destroy the Jedi Temples, so that there would be no Jedi to rise up against the galaxy. The Temple that was built there, would most likely be stored in a place where it would be away from the eyes of evil.’

‘I suppose you’re right.’ said Luke when he realized that Maz has a point.

‘And when are you planning on leaving.’

‘Right now.’ responded Luke as he looked at his Red Five X-Wing, his pride and joy. ‘I just need to fuel up and I’ll be ready to…’

He heard Maz chuckling, gaining his attention. ‘With only that?’

‘What?’ said Luke when he wondered what she meant by it.

‘No offense Skywalker,’ said Maz ‘But if you will be gone for that long, at least take enough food, medicine and parts to go with you on your journey.’

‘But…’ said Luke when he realized that there wasn’t enough room.

‘I have just the thing.’ said Maz as Luke realized that she seemed excited with something ‘Follow me.’

She led Luke straight towards one of her hangers. When they arrived, he was extremely surprised to see what was right in front of him. It was a ship the same size as the Millennium Falcon, but very different.

‘Is that…?’ said Luke whilst he was surprised to see what kind of ship it is.

‘Indeed.’ said Maz as she explained ‘That there happens to be the Ebon Hawk, which was piloted by none other than both Revan and the Exile. It was lost through the ages, but one day my friends found this on a remote planet, partially in shambles, so they brought it back to me as a gift.’

‘And you were able to fix it?’ said Luke whilst R2 also arrived.

‘That I did.’ said Maz as she explained ‘The engines are equipped with a new engine called the Class 5.2 sub light engines, a newly advance TTQP9 Hyper drive. Equipped with Quad laser cannons, concussion missile tubes, as well as a blaster cannon. It even has two quad laser cannons from top to bottom. The steering handles like a dream, its computers and systems highly advance with its own office. It also has two port and starboard crew quarters, a galaxy map at the center, storage compartments for your Lightsaber and robot hand, as well as parts for Artoo. It even has a medical bay, engineering, as well as two compartments, containing twice as many supplies as food and medicine and parts that you will need.’

‘Maz…’ said Luke when he was amazed by the design ‘This is amazing.’

‘It really is.’ said Maz as she looked at it ‘It’s more advance and powerful than both the Ghost and the Millennium Falcon combined.

She then whispered to Luke. ‘But don’t tell Han or Hera, the two of them would be jealous beyond recognition.’

Luke chuckled as he agreed with her. ‘Oh, I’ll take your word for it.’

Maz then placed her hand on Luke’s hand. ‘It’s my gift to you. You can use it on your travels.’

Luke smiled as he stood on his one knee. ‘Thank you Maz. I’ll never forget this kindness.’

‘Because you brought hope back to the galaxy.’ said Maz as she placed her hands on his shoulders. ‘It’s the least I can do.’

However, unknown to them, one of the crewmembers snuck its way towards the ship and placed what appeared to be a tracker on top of one of its landing gear. The crewmember quickly walked away before he was discovered.

‘Come on Artoo,’ said Luke as he walked towards the ship ‘We’ve got a mission.’

Artoo beeped, knowing that it was going to be quite an adventure. Both Luke and Artoo were at the pilot seat and activated the ship. Sure enough, the ship slowly rose itself, hovering high above the hanger, turned to a different direction, and flew straight towards the sky. The ship was able to leave Takodana, making its way towards space and beyond.

‘Wow,’ said Luke as he was amazed ‘Maz was right, this thing really does handle like a dream.’

Luke continued to pilot to ship, and thanks to R2, it was really easy to control.

‘Artoo.’ said Luke as he looked at R2 ‘Is the coordinates to the sixth temple in place?’

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‘Alright, good.’ said Luke as he looked ahead. ‘Then let’s get going.’

Luke activated the ship’s hyper drive. And within mere seconds, the ship jumped into Hyperspace.

As the ship traveled, Luke decided to meditate in order to pass the time. He kept his eyes closed, using the Force to try to see the future, but it was proven difficult than he realized. Artoo suddenly came in, gaining Luke’s attention.

‘What is it Artoo?’ said Luke after he stood up.

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‘We’re almost there?’ said Luke as he walked ahead. ‘Good, let’s get ready.’

Sure enough, the ship jumped out of Hyperspace, arriving at its destination. Luke looked above the planet’s surface, and realized that it was much different than any world he’s ever been to.

‘This world is…not like I’ve ever seen before.’

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‘No, we don’t want to frighten the locals.’ said Luke whilst he looked at the planet. He looked at the ship’s scanners and found something.

‘There happens to be a landing. I’ll try to make it there.

Without a word, Luke piloted the ship and flew towards the planet. For as soon as he would land, he would find the temple, and hoped that the Jedi Temple would still be there.

Chapter 2: A world of Equines

Sure enough, Luke was able to fly through the planet’s atmosphere. It was daytime when he entered, but he kept a normal course, wanting to make sure no one would spot them. R2 came over and beeped a few times to Luke.

‘No advance civilization?’ said Luke when he heard R2 right. He then thought out loud ‘Maybe this world is still in its primitive state. Possibly far from ever of performing space travel.’

Luke was able to see a clearing up ahead. ‘Artoo, let’s land over there by that clearing.’

Sure enough, the Ebon Hawk flew straight towards a clearing, which happened to be near a forest. Slowly it landed whilst critters and creatures were scattering, afraid of the metal giant landing. Sure enough, after some steam were hissing, the docking ramp lowered itself, allowing Luke to walk down, with R2 following him. Luke looked around and never realized how beautiful the place was.

‘Amazing.’ he said whilst he looked at the surroundings. ‘This place is so beautiful, and lush. I think the world would be better off if it would discover space travel and technology of its own.’

‘<Beep><beep><beep>, <beep><beep><beep>, <beep>’. said R2 whilst he was near Luke.

‘A village on the other side of the forest?’ said Luke. ‘Then there must be a population that can help me.’

‘<Beep><beep><beep>, <beep><beep>.’

‘No, stay with the ship Artoo. We don’t want any unwanted attention. However, if something happens that you picked up from the scanner, you can use the ship to get to my location.’

R2 responded and headed back inside the ship in order to close the ramp, whilst Luke decided to continue with his journey, whilst his Lightsaber continued to hang from his belt, making his way into the forest. Sure enough, R2 was able to close the ramp and Luke made his way into the forest.

Luke continued on his quest, looking around, trying to find a way to the village that R2 picked up earlier. He scanned the forest and could sense everything going on.

‘The Force is unbelievably strong here.’ said Luke whilst he continued to look around ‘Could the Jedi from before really have made their way towards this world?’

He suddenly heard screaming, coming from a few feet away from where he was standing. He instantly ran towards the noise, wanting to help those in danger. But as he got closer, he decided to hide behind a tree, trying not to run into danger. When he took a peek, he saw something he didn’t expect.

He saw strange beings with four legs. A white one with a horn on its forehead and purple hair and tail. One who was yellow with wings and had pink hair and tail, whimpering. One was aqua blue with wings and rainbow hair and tail. One was orange with yellow hair and tail, along with what appeared to be a hat. One was pink with a dark pink mane and tail, and one was purple with a dark purple mane and hair with two different stripes on both of them. He saw that they have strange marks on their flanks.

But they weren't the only ones there. There was also a four legged creature, with dark green mane and tail, with light green fur. There was also a large creature with horns, one with wings and a scale, ones that nearly resembled to a bird like group, but very different, and the last one was a strange looking creature that he had never seen before.

‘Is this the world’s population?’ said Luke to himself as he watched. ‘If they live in a world far from space travel, then I need to approach this carefully.’

At the same time, from their perspective, they were the ponies and creatures of a magical land of Equestria. The six ponies were the Mane 6. Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Rarity. Whilst the other creatures were their students. A pony named Sandbar, a Yak named Yona, a Griffon named Gallus, a Hippogriff named Silverstream, a Changeling named Ocellus and a Dragon named Smolder.

Apparently, the Mane 6 decided to take the students to the Everfree forest for a tour, to find out what kind of magic it contained. But…they ended up running into a bit of a snag, for a large plant kind of creature, grabbed them and had the roots wrapped around them, making them struggle as they tried to get loose.

‘ “Sure,” ’ said Applejack as she gave an annoyed look at Rainbow Dash as she quoted what she had said earlier ‘ “Let’s go over and investigate that there plant, looks safe enough.” ’.

‘How the heck was I supposed to know that it was a carnivorous plant?!!’ shouted Rainbow Dash as she glared back at Applejack.

‘Isn’t everything in the Everfree Forest?!!!’ shouted Rarity back as she agreed with Applejack.

‘Uh, not to be rude or anything?’ said Smolder as she gained their attention ‘But can you talk about this, after we’re freed?!!!’

‘I’m trying.’ said Twilight as she struggled to use her magic ‘But the plants are making it difficult for me to use my magic, I don’t want those things to rip my horn off.’

‘Well you’d better think of something,’ said Gallus as he was getting scared ‘I don’t think we can handle this much longer.’

‘Excuse me.’ said Luke when he decided to reveal himself. As the Mane 6 and Young Six looked over, they were shocked to see a creature they’ve never seen before. ‘Do you need some help?’

‘Uhh…’ said some of them, not sure what to say about this.

Luke chuckled, seeing that they were surprised. ‘I’ll take that as a yes.’

Luke stepped off the large rock and walked towards them, however, from out of nowhere, a Chimera appeared, gaining Luke’s attention, but shocked the ponies and their students.

‘Ooh, what do we have here?’ said the tiger head.

‘Fresh meat we haven’t seen before.’ said the goat head.

‘Gonna love every bite.’ said the snake head.

Luke however, only flexed an eyebrow as he looked at it. Suddenly, he began to wave his hand.

‘You don’t want to eat the creature before you.’ said Luke to it.

Suddenly, the creature was in trance. ‘We don’t want to eat the creature before us.’ the Chimera responded.

The ponies and the students were stunned by what was going on.

‘You’re not interested in eating the creatures you see around you.’

‘We’re not interested in eating the creatures I see around me.’

‘You want to go back where you came from and rethink your life.’

‘We want to go back where we came from and rethink my life.’

The Chimera suddenly turned around and walked away. The ponies and the students on the other hand were both shocked and stunned by what was going on as they looked at the Chimera leaving, and then to Luke, who somehow convinced the creature to leave.

‘How did you do that?’ said Silverstream as she was the first to respond.

‘I used a mind trick on the creature,’ said Luke whilst he answered Silverstream’s question ‘It only works on the weak minded. Thankfully, the creature was very weak minded.’

‘Huh,’ responded Sandbar as he was impressed ‘Good to know.’

‘Um, excuse me new creature,’ said Yona as she responded with a nervous smile ‘But could new creature free Yona, teachers and friends. We trap in bad plant.’

‘Of course.’ said Luke as he walked over to them. He pulled out his Lightsaber hilt, which made them curious of what he has in store. He stood in front of them as he said ‘Hold still.’

Luke activated his Lightsaber, revealing a plasma sword that generated from the hilt, surprising the ponies and creatures in the process. He used his Lightsaber to cut the vines that were holding them. One by one, all of them were freed from their vine prison.

‘Wow, thank you so much,’ said Ocellus as she was happy to be freed ‘We thought we were goners for sure.’

‘It is no problem,’ responded Luke as he looked at the young one. Clearly, she and her friends have a lot of potential. He turned to the Mane 6, whom he could feel have powerful auras, as if…the Force was strong within each and every one of them. Luke ignored it and asked ‘But what were you lot doing out here in the woods?’

‘Well, see…’ began the pink hair and yellow Pegasus, whose name was Fluttershy ‘We wanted to take our students our here for a fieldtrip. To help them learn of just how dangerous the Everfree forest can be.’

‘Everfree forest?’ asked Luke with a flexed eyebrow.

‘Oh, you see darling,’ said the purple hair and white fur unicorn known as Rarity ‘The forest contains its own magic. Everything grows unnatural in its own way. Us ponies on the other hand are in charge of growing and maintaining balance of this world ourselves.’

‘I see,’ said Luke, but asked again ‘But how did all of you get caught?’

‘Well Rainbow Dash here,’ said the orange fur pony with the Stetson hat known as Applejack ‘Wanted the students to investigate one of them plants there, ended up abusing it, and the darn thing attacked us without warning.’

Rainbow Dash groaned, for she really didn’t like the way Applejack brought it up.

‘And may I ask who all of you are?’ said Luke as he wondered about who they were.

One by one, each of them introduced themselves.

‘Oh, my name is Ocellus. I’m a Changeling from the Changeling Hive.’

‘Sandbar. Obviously a pony of Equestria.’

‘Gallus. Griffon of Griffonstone.’

‘Silverstream. Hippogriff of Mount Aris.’

‘The name’s Smolder. Dragon from the Dragon Lands.’

‘My name is Yona. Yona Yak from Yakyakistan.’

‘I’m Fluttershy. Caretaker of the animals of Sweet Feather Sanctuary.’

‘Rarity’s the name darling, Fashionista and costume designer of Equestria.’

‘Rainbow Dash. Proud member of the Wonderbolts and fastest flyer in all of Equestria.’

‘Name’s Applejack Sugarcube, proud owner of Sweet Apple Acres.’

‘And I’m Pinkie Pie, party planner, organizer and arranger in all of Equestria.’

‘And I’m Twilight Sparkle, the Princess of Friendship.’

‘A Princess?’ said Luke with a flexed eyebrow whilst he crouched to be at their eye level ‘Should I bow?’

Twilight giggled at his gesture ‘Oh, there’s no need. I’m comfortable with ponies greeting me normally. And you are?’

Luke stood up straight and told them his name. ‘My name is Luke Skywalker,’ said Luke as he introduced himself ‘I’m a visitor from the stars.’

Many were surprised by what he had said, but none were more surprised than Twilight.

‘You’re…from the stars?’ said Twilight.

She suddenly flew in the air, all excited and was close to Luke’s face whilst holding her cheeks and a smile on her face. ‘This. Is. So. Amazing!!! A real life traveler from the stars!! And a creature we’ve never seen before in recorded Equestrian history!!’

Luke was a little surprised at first, seeing Twilight go on like this. Thanks to Rarity, she used her aura to pull Twilight away.

‘Sorry about that,’ said Applejack as he apologized to Luke for Twilight ‘She tends to get excited over something she’s never heard of. You know, like new creatures, new artifacts, new books, especially more books.’

‘I see,’ said Luke ‘So she’s somewhat of a knowledge seeker?’

‘More like an egghead.’ said Rainbow Dash as she crossed her hooves.

‘It is a wise move, being curious of gaining more knowledge.’ said Luke as he looked at Twilight ‘But there is something that is called being “too curious” when it comes to learning.’

‘That’s what we tell her.’ said Fluttershy as she agreed with him.

Luke then looked to the Young Six, then to the Mane 6. ‘Are these six your students?’

‘Yep, they sure are.’ said Pinkie as she appeared next to Twilight, then she suddenly bounced around as she said ‘We were busy learning about friendship and relations through the years, until we decided to open a school and teach others the same thing, that’s when we brought them in, although they got off to a rocky start, they instantly became super duper best of friends, even though they’re different.’

As Pinkie stopped bouncing, Luke chuckled over her bubbly good nature. Luke smiled as he looked at Twilight ‘It’s good to teach others that. You passed on what you’ve learned.’

‘Not everything,’ said Gallus as he spoke ‘We still have a lot to learn. No one said that learning friendship would be easy.’

‘Hmm, I can relate.’ said Luke as he agreed.

‘So, if Yona might ask,’ said Yona whilst she was curious about something ‘Why friend from stars here?’

‘It’s a long story,’ said Luke as he looked around, then back to them. ‘Perhaps we can talk where there is no danger?’

‘Oh, of course,’ said Fluttershy as she flew up ‘We can go back to our school, you can talk from there.’

‘I’ll get us back there, hang on.’ said Twilight as he horn glowed. And within an instant, she teleported all of them out of the Everfree forest.

At the school of friendship’s courtyard, Starlight and Spike walked on the pathway as many of the pony students were going back and forth, learning what they could with whatever book they could find from their library. Starlight looked worried whilst she looked at the school’s clock.

‘What’s taking them so long?’ said Starlight as she got more worried.

‘Relax Starlight,’ said Spike as he calmed her down ‘Remember, the Everfree forest is a big place. I’m sure Twilight will teleport them back any…’

Spike was cut off the moment Twilight and the others appeared, taking Starlight by surprise, with Spike saying ‘See, I told you.’

Starlight ran over to Twilight and stopped in front of her. ‘I’m so glad all of you are safe. What happened out there, I thought your trip through the forest would’ve been over by now.’

‘Well we would’ve come back sooner.’ said Smolder.

‘But miss Rainbow Dash ticked off a creature eating plant that nearly ate us.’ said Gallus as he finished for her.

‘Of course she did.’ said Starlight as she rolled her eyes.

‘So she’s done this before?’ asked Luke whilst he whispered to Rainbow Dash’s friends.

‘Yup,’ said Applejack as she started ‘There was a time when all she cared about was winning competitions.’ said Applejack when she remembered the times that she got super competitive during the Iron Pony competition and that she nearly endangered her friends.

‘And when she always rudely flew into somepony.’ said Fluttershy of the times Rainbow tried to make her do things she wasn’t comfortable with.

‘And has no patience when it comes to doing what their friends like.’ said Rarity when she still remembered the time when she and Rainbow Dash wanted to stop being friends because they didn’t want to give each other’s hobbies a chance.

‘And when she rudely threw away all the baked goods I baked for her and she didn’t even tell me the truth.’ said Pinkie Pie when she remembered that Rainbow Dash kept throwing her pies away and not telling her the truth.

‘And when she kept charging into danger and never think things through.’ said Twilight as she remembered when Rainbow Dash always wanted the praised as a hero by saving ponies and not because it was a right thing to do, which is why she and her friends were resorted into using the “Mysterious Mare Do Well” persona.

However, Rainbow Dash overheard her and then told them one by one of her friends’ failures and blunders.

Rainbow hovered in front of Twilight ‘At least I didn’t go overboard of delivering a friendship report and got turned into a statue by a possessed chicken and caused the Para sprites to eat half of Ponyville.’

Rainbow hovered in front of Pinkie Pie ‘At least I’m not the one who’s always constantly into other ponies’ faces and tried to force friendships with us and Starlight with your sister whilst also trying to force pie down my throat even after I said no, especially with the whole Pinkie Pie clone fiasco.’

Rainbow hovered in front of Rarity ‘At least I’m not the one who thought that spending time with her sister was uncool and wanted to spend more time with snooty royals instead of actually going on their friends’ birthday and stupidly asked Applejack, a pony with no fashion sense, to be one of the judges.’

Rainbow hovered in front of Fluttershy ‘At least I didn’t take the assertive thing too far and ended up hurting other ponies’ feelings and ended up making Rarity jealous that you were getting more attention and were too scared to sing when she really wanted to.’

Rainbow hovered in front of Applejack ‘And at least I wasn’t the one who lied so much when I was a filly that sent my entire family to the hospital and never bothered to tell her sister the truth about her friends trying to get their Cutie Marks when they actually could’ve told them what they could’ve done.’

The five friends remembered all too well what she meant, causing them to groan loudly whilst feeling embarrassed about it. However, they noticed Luke was chuckling, making them wonder what it was about.

‘The way you six argue,’ said Luke as he spoke to them ‘You remind me of myself and my friends whenever we’re in the middle of an argument.’

‘Oh? said Starlight as she just noticed Luke. ‘Who are you?’

‘My name is Luke Skywalker,’ said Luke as he introduced himself,’ I’m…’

However, he was interrupted when they heard a loud thud. When they looked up, they saw that a bunch of mover ponies, accidentally bumped into Derpy, whilst delivering mail. And before they knew it, a handful of large heavy objects, fell from the sky, hurtling towards a student, an Earth Pony, who was walking out of the building.

‘Whoa, watch it!!’ shouted Spike, gaining the young filly’s attention.

She shockingly looked up and saw the objects falling, causing her to yelp loudly as she closed her eyes. But instead of feeling the impact, she slowly looked up, and to her surprise, saw that the objects were floating above her.

Spike wiped his forehead, relieved that the crisis had been averted. ‘Whew, that was close. Nice one Starlight.’

‘Uh, Spike,’ responded Starlight as she watched ‘That wasn’t me.’

‘Um, guys.’ said Ocellus, gaining everyone’s attention.

She pointed towards what they wanted to see. And to their surprise, the one who saved them, was none other than Luke. He had his hand reached out, closing his eyes as he concentrated. Many of the ponies were also surprised when they saw what they were looking at. Luke moved his right arm to the left, lifting the heavy objects to a clearing. He slowly placed them on the ground, as if nothing had happened. He looked at the young filly and walked over to her. He stood in front of her, stood on his right knee whilst looking at her face to face.

‘You should be more careful little one,’ said Luke as he spoke to her ‘For even though in times of peace, danger can lurk anywhere. And even though we prepare for the worst, life can be unpredictable that not even the older and more experienced ones could predict. But if you chose to believe in yourself, and to those around you, you can overcome anything that might drive fear into one’s heart.’

Luke picked up her book and handed it to her. ‘Trust within yourself, and let your own heart be your guide.’

The little one smiled, for somehow the way he said it, made her see life more differently. She then accepted her book back and placed it back in her bag. ‘Thank you mister.’

‘You’re welcome.’ said Luke as he smiled back at her. ‘Now off you go now, your friends are waiting.’

The young filly ran towards her friends who were waiting for her. When she reunited with them, they continued walking together, with Twilight and the others watched Luke as they were amazed by what he did. Luke stood up and looked at the building, smiled as it reminded him of something.

‘Uh, Spike…’ responded Twilight as she leaned close to him, but kept her eyes focused on Luke.

‘Already on it.’ said Spike as he quickly took out a parchment and wrote to the princess.

Chapter 3: The tale and fall of the Jedi and the Republic

Far from Ponyville, on the top of a mountain, stood a large city, the symbol and capitol of all of Equestria; the City of Canterlot. From within the royal throne room, both Celestia and Luna were present in Canterlot when they received a letter from Twilight. Sure enough, the Mane 7, Spike, Sunburst and the Young Six, were in the throne room, who wanted to know who Luke Skywalker was and why he was here. They listened whilst standing next to both the Princesses of the day and night, listening to what the new visitor has to say.

Luke bowed to the two princesses. ‘Greeting royal sisters of Equestria. My name is Luke Skywalker. Thank you for taking time into summoning me for this meeting.’

‘You are welcome Luke Skywalker,’ said Celestia as she and her sisters bowed their heads and focused their attention onto the new visitor ‘It is not every day that we receive visitors from the stars.’

‘Indeed,’ responded Luna as she agreed ‘But we are curious of why you have arrived on our world though.
Luke knew it would be hard to explain to them where he comes from, but he realized they needed to be brought up to date of what happened to the galaxy he came from. ‘Your highness,’ said Luke as he made up his mind ‘To talk about why I’m here is to also talk about what I am, who we served, and why a new alliance took form.’

‘Indeed.’ said Celestia. ‘You may start about what you are.’

But before Luke could get started, seven other faces entered the throne room. ‘Pardon us for being late your highness,’ said the one with the long beard ‘We had just received your message and…’

The six ponies were surprised to see Luke. ‘Who are you?’ said one with the Cajun accent.

‘Oh, thank you for coming Starswirl.’ said Luna as she smiled to see familiar faces arriving.

‘Luke Skywalker,’ said Celestia, gaining his attention as she introduced him to the ponies that entered the hall. ‘These are the Pillars of Equestria. They protected our kingdom from darkness long ago. Luke Skywalker, meet Starswirl the Bearded, Rockhoof of the Mighty Helm, Flash Magnus of the Royal Legion, Mage Meadowbrook of Hayseed Swamp, Somnambula of Southern Equestria, Mistmane of the High Mountains, and Stygian, the pony who united them.’

‘It’s an honor.’ said Luke as he bowed in respect.

‘Everypony,’ said Celestia as she introduced Luke to the Pillars ‘This is Luke Skywalker. He is a visitor from the stars.’

The Pillars were surprised to hear this. ‘A visitor from the stars?’ said Rockhoof surprised.

‘From a galaxy far, far away.’ said Luke whilst he kept his arms crossed.

‘But what are you doing here?’ said Stygian, wondering what Luke would want.

‘He was just about to tell us.’ said Starlight.

Pinkie then popped up behind the Pillars and pushed them ‘So come on, sit down and hear his story.’

After Pinkie brought them to their seats, she sat down, with both her hooves on both sides of her face. Luke only nodded with a smile, admiring her positive attitude. ‘Now then, where should I begin?’ he asked.

‘Well,’ said Spike as he wanted to know something ‘You can start by telling us how you did that back at the school.’

‘Ah yes.’ said Luke, as he pulled out his Lightsaber and used the Force to lift it up, slowly twirling about as he demonstrated. Some were surprised to see what he can do. ‘What you saw earlier, I used the Force to lift the object.
‘The what now?’ said Applejack as she shifted her left eyebrow.

‘The Force is part of a Jedi’s power,’ said Luke as he began, placing his Lightsaber away. ‘It creates an energy field surrounding all living things, it surrounds us, it penetrates us, it binds the galaxy together.’

‘Whoa,’ said Twilight as she realized something ‘It almost sounds like the magic of our world. We each feel the magic inside of us.’

‘Indeed.’ responded Luke.

‘If you don’t mind me asking darling,’ said Rarity as she was curious about something ‘Would you mind telling us what a “Jedi” is, and where they all come from?’

‘I would gladly. But I will also explain as best as I can of the galaxy I came from.’

Luke explained as best he could so that they could understand.

‘In our galaxy, every world was separated from one another, not communicating, nor were friends. When each world had reached for the stars, they were afraid of one another, and soon waged war at one another. Then one day, each leader reached out to another, and soon, they became the first leaders of the inner core of the galaxy, and became known as the Republic, a galactic community who strive to make it a better place. Soon, they chose a leader to guide the galaxy, the first Chancellor. Among his fellow Senate members were senators that represents their homeworlds. If each have a problem, they come to the Chancellor for guidance.’

Spike whispered to Twilight as he said ‘Wow, kind of reminds me of how the Pony tribes were formed.’

‘You know, I kind of see the resemblance.’ said Twilight as she whispered back. But at the same time, she continued to take notes of his galaxy.

‘But along the way,’ said Luke as he continued ‘As the galaxy continued to grow into a much more larger community, the Jedi came to be, who owed their allegiance to the Republic, vowing to bring peace to the people and race of every world. Overtime as the years went by, many races soon became force sensitive, which meant they were chosen to become the next Jedi to lead the next generation. In time, many Jedi had constructed temples on a few planets, so that they could keep a closer watch on the galaxy.’

‘Whoa.’ said most of the ponies as they were amazed by the stories.

‘The Jedi also took an oath into protecting the galaxy.’ said Luke, then he cleared his throat as he recite the oath of the Jedi to them.

'There is no emotion, there is peace
There is no ignorance, there is knowledge
There is no passion, there is serenity
There is no chaos, there is harmony
There is no death, there is the Force'

Some were surprised by the oath, for it definitely has some meaning. ‘Interesting.’ said Starswirl as he listened to it ‘And what of that strange device on your hilt?’

Luke took out his Lightsaber and activated it, revealing a plasma blade, surprising them, especially the humming sound it was making. ‘The Jedi would often say that this weapon is our lives. For in a way, they are powered by Kyber Crystals, the very gem that would allow a Lightsaber to be activated. I was able to make one of my own after I lost my old one.’

Luke placed his Lightsaber away as he continued with his story. ‘For thousands of years, the Jedi continued to fight for peace and justice throughout the galaxy,’ said Luke ‘But it wasn’t meant to last.’

‘What do you mean?’ said Luna as she too found it curious.

‘For the light side of the Force, there is also the Dark Side. And they in turn, become the Sith.’

‘The Sith?’ said Sandbar whilst he wondered what it meant.

‘They follow a different code.’ said Luke as he recite their oath as well.

'Peace is a lie, there is only compassion
Through passion, I gain strength
Through strength, I gain power
Through power, I gain victory
Through victory, my chains are broken
The Force shall free me'

Some could tell the difference, and they could tell the Sith oath sounded scary.

‘And because of both sides, the Sith chose to wage war against the galaxy, forming their own Empire. For many years we were caught in an endless cycle. They exterminate us, we rise up, we exterminate them, they rise up. Many lives were lost and many planets of innocents suffered. That was, until the last Sith Lord, Darth Bane, ended up doing something diabolical that no one had ever seen this coming.’

‘What did he do?’ said Spike as he was slightly peeking behind Twilight’s leg.

‘He created the Rule of Two.’

Many were puzzled by what that was, with Mistmane saying ‘The Rule of Two?’

‘You see,’ said Luke as he told them the curse of being a Sith ‘The Sith have a tendency to slaughter each other in droves as they were victims of their own arrogance and greed, until only one survived.’

‘Darth Bane.’ said Stygian, when he figured who he was talking about.

‘Yes,’ said Luke ‘And with him being the only survivor, he chose to pass the knowledge of the Sith down to his apprentice. But in doing so, after the Apprentice had learned all that he knew, he trained his own student, before he killed Darth Bane. And in doing so, the cycle had gone on and on, until all knowledge of the Sith had been forgotten, and the Jedi continued to watch over the galaxy.’

Many were shocked by what happened to the Sith. ‘So they became a slave to their own darkness.’ said Somnambula, as she had the same expression as the others.

‘Yes, but the peace wasn’t meant to last.’ said Luke as he lowered his head.

‘What do you mean, darling?’ said Rarity, as she heard a tone in Luke’s voice that she knew all too well.

Luke looked up and told them the rest. ‘About thirty three years ago, in my galaxy, many of the criminal kingpins and warlords nearly rose to power, which left the last Supreme Chancellor named Vallorum, paranoid. So he secretly asked a fellow Jedi Master named Sifo-Dias, without the knowledge of both the Jedi Order and the Republic Senate, to help find a way to build an army for the Republic. So he came up with a solution; a Clone Army.’

‘Clones?’ said the Mane 6 at the same time, gaining Luke’s attention as he flexed an eyebrow by hearing the tone of their voices.

‘I assume you had one of those?’ said Luke out of curiosity.

‘It…didn’t work out so well.’ said Twilight as she nearly cringed because of all the Pinkie Pie clones.

‘I see.’ said Luke. Without further interruption, he cleared his voice and continued with the story.

‘In order for that to be possible, he left for the planet Kamino, which was famous for their cloning technology. From what I heard, they asked a famous Bounty Hunter named Jango Fett, to come to Kamino to take samples of his blood, in order for them to create their perfect clones.’

Luke changed his facial expression as he remembered from what Kenobi and Rex had told him since he last saw them. ‘However, Senator Palpatine, who was secretly the Sith Lord, Darth Sideous, caught wind of what Sifo-Dias was up to, so he secretly corrupted a fellow Jedi named Dooku, and send him to follow Dias and killed him, whilst he took over his project and installed control chips inside the Clones’ minds.’

‘Control…chips?’ said Silverstream as she had a hard time grasping what Luke meant.

‘Picture them like mind control stones,’ said Luke ‘But were controlling over millions of clones.’

Many gasped, as did Pinkie Pie whilst she was also surprised ‘Wow, that’s almost as much as a plate of cupcakes, but through an entire city.’

Luke continued his story, despite trying to pretend he didn’t hear Pinkie Pie, even though her enthusiasm was most welcomed. ‘They installed those chips inside their minds, so that in case they would go rogue or would start a rebellion, they would automatically activate and seize control of their minds. One of those command codes was Order 66.’

‘Order 66?’ said Gallus with a flexed eyebrow.

Luke took a breather, as he knew all too well what it meant. He looked at them as he said ‘To exterminate all Jedi on sight.’
Many were shocked to hear what the Sith had done to the clones. ‘That’s…horrible.’ said Fluttershy as she had a hard time grasping that reality.

‘Eleven years later,’ said Luke, continuing the story ‘By the time when my father was eighteen, and he had become My old Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi’s apprentice, more and more worlds broke ties to the Republic and had formed their own empire, known as the Separatists. When my father, Anakin Skywalker, my mother, Senator Padme Amidala, and Master Kenobi were captured, the Jedi launched an assault trying to save them, but the new army, known as Droids, lifeless machines that carry out orders without question, were too much for them. But they were saved by their teacher, Master Yoda, who led an entire Clone Battalion and saved their lives, whilst also starting its first battle. But Dooku was able to escape, and the Clone Wars had begun.'

Many continued to be fascinated by the tale as he continued. ‘For the past three years, the Clone Wars were fought on every planet between the Republic and Separatist lines, until one day, during the Battle of Coruscant, the capitol of the Republic, my father Anakin Skywalker, now a Knight, fought Count Dooku head on and struck him down, severing the leadership of the Droid Army. However, after the battle, our mother was pregnant with myself and Leia. But…there came a problem.’

‘What kind of a problem.’ said Sandbar, now that he was into the story.

‘Jedi also have the ability to sense the future, but because of the power of the Dark Side, it clouded their vision. But my father had a vision about my mother…dying of childbirth.’

Many were shocked to hear that part. ‘But…what did Kenobi do?’ asked Ocellus.

‘He didn’t know,’ said Luke ‘My father didn’t tell anyone.’

‘Wait, what? Why?’ said Silverstream.

‘Because forming attachments, even falling in love is forbidden by the Jedi Code.’ said Luke, with many others surprised.

‘Forbidden to fall in love?’ said Flash Magnus as he was surprised to hear this ‘Why?’

‘Because forming attachments can lead to jealousy, and fear. The fear of losing a loved one, as well as being too close to others, can lead straight to the dark side.’

Many were surprised to hear that part. ‘Sounds like the Jedi were a nomad race.’ said Rockhoof.

‘Nomads?’ said Smolder as she was confused by that name.

‘Nomads are like monks.’ said Luna as she explained ‘They tend to cut ties with the outside world and seclude themselves in their temples, so that they would not be led astray by darkness.’

‘That’s right,’ said Luke as he continued his story. ‘But over the past week, my father’s paranoia and fear took hold of him, and with Darth Sideous’ help, after killing four high ranking Jedi Masters, he lured my father into the Dark Side. From that day on, he pledged his allegiance to the Sith Lord, and became Darth Vader.’

Some were surprised that Luke’s father turned evil, all because of fear that took hold of him.

‘With my father under his control, Darth Sideous contacted every Clone throughout the entire galaxy and excecuted Order 66, causing the chips inside their minds to be activated, and compelled them to kill all the Jedi on sight. Whilst my father…’ they noticed Luke cringed a bit as he tightened his eyes, making the others concern for him. ‘My father led his entire Clone Army, the 501st, straight into the Jedi Temple, and killed everyone inside, including younglings, children from ages four through twelve.’

Many were horrified by what his father and his clones had done.

‘Through the bloodshed,’ said Luke as he slowly opened his eyes ‘Only Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Grand Master Yoda, were the only survivors.’

‘Yoda?’ said Yona with a flexed eyebrow ‘Who is this, Yoda?’

‘Master Yoda is the Grand Master and head of the Jedi Council,’ said Luke, describing the best as he could about him. ‘He is the most powerful Jedi to ever exist, wise beyond anyone else, and he had trained the Jedi for over eight hundred years.’

‘He’s that old?!!’ shouted Twilight as she was shocked. Many looked at her with flexed eyebrows. She sheepishly smiled and sat down nervously. ‘Sorry, please continue.’

Luke cleared his throat, attempting to continue with his tale of recent events from the past. ‘Fearing that the surviving Jedi were in danger, both Yoda and Kenobi returned back to the temple, and killed the clones that were stationed there. When they were inside, they used the Jedi Archives, the sacred vault housing all of Jedi History, to send a coded message for all the surviving Jedi to stay away from the temple.’

Luke pulled out what appeared to be a cube and hovered it to the center, as all of them were focused on it. Luke concentrated, allowing the corners of the cube to turn and slowly fly in four different directions. And within a split second, a hologram of a bearded man, wearing a Jedi Robe, appeared in front of them, which surprised them as they saw the hologram.

‘This is Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi,’ said the hologram of Kenobi as he delivered the message. ‘I regret to report that the Jedi Order and the Republic, have fallen, with the dark shadows of the Empire, rising to take their place. This message is sent as a warning and a reminder to any of the surviving Jedi. Trust, in the Force. Do not return to the Temple, that time has passed, and our future is uncertain. We will each be challenged. Our trusts, our faith, and our friendships. But we must persevere. And in time, a new hope, will emerge. May the Force be with you. Always.’

Luke ended the ending as he held the cube back in his hand, however, Twilight flew close and observed it. ‘Ooooooo, what is that?’ she asked with sparkles in her eyes as she was now eagerly eager to study it.

‘It’s called a Holocron.’ said Luke as he explained ‘They contain crystals that were recorded by the Jedi who came before them, even the most dangerous secrets that no Jedi, nor even Sith would dare to use, no matter how dire the situation is.’

Starlight used her magic to bring Twilight back to their group. ‘Let him finish.’ said Starlight, making Twilight giggle sheepishly, for she was now being distracted whilst Luke placed his Holocron away. ‘Sorry about that, please continue.’
‘After the message was sent,’ said Luke, continuing with his tale after he placed the Holocron away ‘Master Kenobi was shocked to learn who was responsible for the attack. So Master Yoda told him that they need to destroy the Sith, with him going after Sideous, now proclaiming himself Emperor and turned the Republic into the Empire, with Kenobi having no choice but to go after my father.’

‘But…where was your father after the Jedi had fallen?’ said Meadowbrook as she was afraid to find out.

‘He went to where the Separatists were hiding. Since they had outlived their usefulness, the Emperor decided to get rid of them, and ordered my father to kill them. With the Leaders gone, the Separatist Alliance was no more.’

‘And…I take it yer mother wasn’t too happy about this?’ asked Applejack, having a wrenched feeling in her gut that Luke’s mother was going to be heartbroken.

‘No,’ said Luke ‘My mother went to confront him, and she was horrified to hear what he had done, from his own words. She tried to get him back, but she didn’t know that Master Kenobi had snuck onboard her ship.’

‘And…what did he do?’ said Fluttershy, as she was frightened.

‘I…I do not know.’ said Luke ‘Obi-Wan and Yoda never told me much about what happened. I wish I could though.’

That was, until Twilight had an idea. ‘Oh, I know something that can help.’

‘You can?’ said Luke, as he was curious of what she had in mind.

‘I learned a spell that can help take us to the moment that you told us about.’ said Twilight, before she looked at Celestia. ‘If that is alright with you?’

‘Of course.’ said Celestia.

‘Come to think of it,’ said Luke as his thoughts were pondering of what Twilight had offered ‘I would like to know what happened between my mother, Kenobi and my father.’

‘Very well then, this won’t take long.’ said Twilight. She concentrated all her magic through her horn, allowing it to glow brightly as she engulfed the entire room in pure light.

When they opened their eyes, they saw that they were on some platform, with Padme, wearing a grey sleeveless shirt and a pendant around her neck, with a skirt and white pants underneath as she was also wearing boots.

She was trying to talk to Anakin, as he was wearing a brown Jedi robe, with black boots, crimson pants, dark leather jacket with red sleeves and black gloves. They saw Padme trying to talk to Anakin, but horrified by what she had learnt, as they noticed that she was still carrying their children, whilst also noticing that Anakin’s expression was that of anger. Many wondered where this was going to go, with some already afraid to find out.

‘Obi-Wan was right,’ said Padme ‘You have changed.’

‘I don’t want to hear another word about Obi-Wan.’ said Anakin, noticing that his anger and the darkness inside his heart was growing ‘The Jedi turned against me, don’t you turn against me as well.’

Slowly, Padme was in tears, horrified and heartbroken by what Anakin had become, with some couldn’t help but feel the same. Luke on the other hand, his expression changed to shock and horror, not realizing what his mother went through because of the fact that his father had turned to Darkness. ‘I don’t know you anymore,’ she responded. ‘Anakin…you’re breaking my heart. You’re going down a path that I can’t follow.’

‘Because of Obi-Wan?’ said Anakin.

‘Because of what you’ve done.’ she responded back ‘What you planned to do.’

However, Anakin’s focus was shifted to the ship, with the others not noticing what he was looking at, with Padme trying to convince him otherwise. ‘Stop. Stop now, come back. I love you.’

Suddenly, Anakin’s expression changed as he raised his voice ‘Liar.’

She turned her attention to the ship. And from the ship, she saw a Jedi Master, wearing brown boots, teal pants, white Jedi Robe with sleeves, as well as the brown cloak of a Jedi. It was Obi-Wan, walking down the ship’s ramp, and making his way towards Anakin.

‘No…’ she said, for she was surprised to see Obi-Wan, realizing that he had snuck onboard without her realizing it.

‘You're with him,’ said Anakin, not believing her as she took a few steps back. ‘You brought him here to kill me.’
And within that split second, he extended his hand, whilst his hand had made a grip form, causing Padme to be lifted partially from the ground, as she held onto her throat with both her hands, shocking everypony and creature when they saw what was going on, even Luke when he suddenly took a step forward, wanting to stop this.

‘Let her go Anakin.’ said Obi-Wan, trying to get through to him, but his focus was on Padme, as if feeling betrayed by his own wife was the last straw.

‘Anakin.’ begged Padme, wanting him to stop.

‘Let. Her. Go.’ said Obi-Wan, now more serious.

Within a moment, Anakin released his grip, dropping Padme onto the ground, unconscious, with Obi-Wan shocked what had transpired, especially the ponies and creatures who were witnessing it.

Anakin looked at Obi-Wan in anger, knowing that his wife’s betrayal will not stand. ‘You turned her against me.’

Obi-Wan, on the other hand, looked at Anakin in disgust. ‘You have done that yourself.’ he responded.

Anakin walked back and forth, whilst taking his cloak off, now focused on Obi-Wan. ‘You will not take her from me!!’ he shouted.

‘Your anger and your lust for power had already done that.’ said Obi-Wan as he took off his cloak. He and Anakin walked in a circle, slowly. ‘You have allowed this, dark lord to twist your mind until now…until now you have become the very thing you swore to destroy.’

‘Don’t lecture me Obi-Wan.’ said Anakin as he was no on the other side, with Obi-Wan, walking towards Padme, wanting to make sure that she was okay. ‘I see through the lies of the Jedi. I do not fear the dark side as you do.’

As Anakin turned around, Obi-Wan crouched and placed his hand onto Pad me’s neck, making sure that she was still alive. Anakin on the other hand had his back turned, as he continued to rant ‘I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new empire.’

‘Your new Empire?’ responded Obi-Wan, whilst sounding confused.

‘Don’t make me kill you.’ said Anakin, who’s anger had now greatly consumed him.

‘Anakin,’ said Obi-Wan, trying one more time to get through to Anakin ‘My allegiance is to the Republic, to democracy!!’

‘If you are not with me,’ said Anakin, not making eye contact. ‘Then you’re my enemy.’

Obi-Wan sighed, for he knew that it wasn’t going to end well. ‘Only a Sith, deals in absolutes.’ he responded. Sure enough, he pulled out his Lightsaber, and prepared himself for battle. ‘I will do what I must.’

Anakin only responded ‘You will try.’

Obi-Wan activated his blue Lightsaber, and within a split second, Anakin activated his blue Lightsaber too whilst he jumped backwards and in front of Obi-Wan. To many, even Luke’s shock, they saw master against apprentice as their sabers clashed. As they clashed, they kept moving backwards, they made their way towards the bridge and headed straight inside the building, with Luke watching as both Obi-Wan and Anakin continued to fight one another. They continued clashing their sabers as they went down the halls, slashing and slicing the walls until they were in another room, where they continued to clash their blades and deflected onto what appears to be a control panel. They jumped onto a table where they continued fighting, with Obi-Wan knocked Anakin’s Lightsaber out of his hand, until Anakin grabbed Obi-Wan’s throat and forced him to bend over backwards and nearly made him slice his throat with his own saber.

Thankfully, Obi-Wan kicked Anakin’s back, causing him to roll over and stood up quickly. Obi-Wan had just got up and regained his balance, until Anakin jumped up and kicked him over with both his legs. Obi-Wan stood up in time as they continued to clash and kicked him over. He summoned his Lightsaber and was about to strike Anakin, but Anakin summoned his Lightsaber in time and was able to block it. They both stood up and continued to clash blades into the next room.

Anakin and Obi-Wan continued to fight and clash with their sabers, the began to twirl them around to strengthen their blows, until they ended up clashing again once more, each of them staring at one another, with many surprised to see just how powerful they were. Obi-Wan and Anakin used their Force push to push one another, but it clashed, which caused the two of them to focus all their strengths. And with one final push, they pushed one another as they crashed into separate consoles. Anakin quickly got up and leapt towards him, for their fight wasn’t over.

They later were outside, where they were amazed that the fight was still going on, for despite the heat, despite the falling lava and the failing bridges, they still kept at it, fighting one another. They eventually made it to a floating platform, with Anakin standing on top of a robot. They hovered closely, with Anakin looking at Obi-Wan in anger.

‘I have failed you Anakin.’ said Obi-Wan as he was somewhat smiling, feeling a sense of pride because of a sense of pride in him because of his skills. ‘I have failed you.’

‘I should’ve known the Jedi were plotting to take over.’ said Anakin, now that all of them noticed that the color of his eyes were now yellow, the mark of evil.

‘Anakin, Chancellor Palpatine is evil.’ said Obi-Wan, trying to talk some sense into him.

‘From my point of view, the Jedi are evil.’

‘Well then you are lost!!’ he shouted.

‘This is the end for you, my master.’

Anakin jumped on the platform and the two of them continued to duel, trying to outmaneuver one another. They continued to fight, until they were near solid rock, allowing Obi-Wan to jump up and stood firmly on the ground, with Anakin watching him.

‘It’s over Anakin!’ shouted Obi-Wan ‘I have the high ground.’

‘You underestimate my power.’

‘Don’t try it.’ said Obi-Wan, begging Anakin not to do this.

Anakin jumped up in the air within a split second, allowing Obi-Wan to do the unthinkable; he sliced Anakin’s left arm and both his legs off, causing Anakin to roll over near the lava lake, grasping onto the side. Many were shocked to see what was going on, even Luke.

They saw Obi-Wan, turning his Lightsaber off, with Anakin grasping and groaning in anger, staring at Obi-Wan. They saw Obi-Wan, now distraught and in tears.

‘You were the chosen one!!’ he shouted, shedding tears. And in that moment, Celestia somehow founded herself shedding tears, as she could see something that she could relate to between herself and Sunset Shimmer ‘It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them!! Bring balance to the force, not leave it in darkness!!’

Obi-Wan walked a few paces away whilst he picked up Anakin’s Lightsaber, then watched him, then he shouted at Obi-Wan ‘I hate you!!!’

However, instead of hatred, Obi-Wan responded ‘You were my brother Anakin. I loved you.’

Luke had a hard time grasping of what he had witnessed, even the others. That was, the unexpected happened. Because of the lava, Anakin was set ablaze, causing him to scream of pain as Obi-Wan looked away. Anakin’s whole body was on fire, burning, shocking many others. They then saw Anakin’s face, burning and screaming, horrifying the Mane 7, as well as Luke, when he saw what his father had been through. But instead, rather than killing him, Obi-Wan walked away, now heartbroken over the loss of not only his apprentice, but a brother that he loved.

The image was somehow shifted however, as they were suddenly in another room. There, they saw a man in black and cloak, accompanied by his prime minister. And from the doors, a small green creature appeared. The two guards attempted to stop him, but Yoda used Force Push with his mind, knocking them out as they clashed against the wall and fell flat on the ground. Palpatine on the other hand, used his chair to turn around and look directly at Master Yoda.
‘I hear, a new apprentice you have, Emperor.’ said Yoda as he looked at him, before he glared at him with sternness in his eyes. ‘Or, should I call you, Darth Sideous.’

‘Master Yoda,’ said the Emperor, not amused by Yoda’s survival. ‘You survived.’

‘Surprised?’ said Yoda, keeping himself in check.

Some of them were surprised to see what Yoda looked like. ‘Wait, that’s Yoda?’ said Twilight as she was surprised to see what he looked like.

‘Weird,’ said Gallus ‘I always thought that he was taller or something.’

‘Never underestimate small packages.’ said Spike as he grinned, with the girls rolling their eyes as they continued to watch, with Luke focusing on what Yoda tried to do just to try and stop him.

The Emperor looked at Yoda blankly, but many were shockened to see the Emperor, an old man with yellow eyes, emitting evil by just looking at him. ‘Your arrogance blinds you, Master Yoda. Now you will experience the full power, of the dark side.’

The Emperor slowly raised his hands, and within a split second, to everypony and every creature’s shock, the Emperor shot lightning out of his fingers, striking down Yoda as he was flung against the wall and fell on the ground, with him groaning in pain.

Slowly, the Emperor walked towards Yoda, whilst the Prime Minister left to let them settle their own matters, as the Emperor chuckled at Yoda’s dilemma. ‘I have waited a long time for this moment. My little green friend.’

The Emperor chuckled a bit once more, whilst Yoda slowly stood up at the same time, staring at the Emperor, for now he was mad, not only for deceiving the Republic, but destroying the Jedi Order, an Order he worked hard to maintain for so long for the sake of the galaxy.

‘At last, the Jedi are no more.’ said the Emperor, overconfident as ever.

‘Not if anything to say about it. I have!!’ said Yoda as he used Force Push, launching the Emperor in the air and against his chair as he fell over.

‘At an end, your rule is.’ said Yoda whilst the Emperor stood up, staring at him, showing a slight fear in his eyes. ‘And not short enough it was.’

The Emperor tried to get away, but Yoda jumped in the way, standing in his way of escaping. ‘If so powerful you are,’ said Yoda as he pulled out his green Lightsaber, whilst he activated the moment after he said ‘Why leave?’

‘You will not stop me,’ said the Emperor as he too was prepared for combat. ‘Darth Vader will become more powerful than either of us.’ said the Emperor as he activated his red Lightsaber too.

‘Faith in your new apprentice, misplaced may be.’ said Yoda, holding his Lightsaber as he prepared for battle, staring at the Emperor as he said ‘As is your faith in the Dark Side of the Force.’

Sideous raised his Lightsaber in the air, preparing for combat, until Yoda jumped up and deflected his attack, then jumped back in front of him, their Lightsabers still aimed at one another. Yoda deflected left, and he deflected right, with the Emperor cackling as if it was nothing, scaring some as they see how scary he is.

Their fight soon took them on some kind of platform, causing the ceiling to be raised as it was still going up, with Yoda jumping around, trying his best to strike, but the Emperor kept blocking it, as did the latter doing the opposite. When all of a sudden, they were in a massive room, with many platforms all around them, surprising many as they saw what happened. The two of them stood firmly onto the ground as they clashed sabers at one another, then they continued again and stopped in their position.

When all of a sudden, they saw that Yoda was on a different circular platform, jumping from one spot to another, whilst the Emperor floated on his own circular platform and used the Force to throw many more onto Yoda, but kept dodging them. Having enough, Yoda stopped as he placed his Lightsaber away. The Emperor threw another circular platform at Yoda, but instead, Yoda used the Force to stop it in its tracks. Yoda used the force to spin the platform like a saw, then thrusted it towards him.

The Emperor jumped out of the way as he was able to evade it, whilst standing on another circular platform. Looking around, he saw no sign of Yoda, until he appeared right near him, activating his Lightsaber. The Emperor used Force Lightning, knocking Yoda’s saber out of his hand, but he used both his hands to block the lightning, surprising the creatures when they saw how Yoda was fighting, struggling to keep it at bay. The Emperor kept cackling, for he was enjoying this, until Yoda moved closer, causing the lightning to cancel itself out, but sending a shockwave that caused both of them to fall. Though the Emperor was able to grab on and stopped falling, Yoda fell onto the ground. He looked at the cackling emperor, realizing that there was no other way, he escaped.

He climbed through the shafts, trying to find an exit. He suddenly took out a small device and said ‘Hurry, careful timing we will need.’

It responded as it said ‘Activate your homing beacon when you are ready.’

Yoda eventually found an exit, allowing himself to open it, with what appears to be a small ship with a human driving it. Yoda jumped in, allowing the man to escape, a friend of the Jedi named Bail Organa, a senator from Alderaan. Yoda was then in despair, as he said ‘Into exile, I must go. Failed, I have.’

Luke was surprised to see Yoda left. ‘He just…ran away?’ said Luke to himself softly, for he couldn’t believe that Yoda, the most powerful Jedi, to run away like that.

Shortly after, it took them to another scene, but instead of an entire room, it was split in half, one that was red, and one that was blue. When they watched the blue side, they saw Padme, lying on what appeared to be a type of hospital table, with Obi-Wan, Yoda, and the Senator, Bail Organa, watching as they were worried, with both R2-D2 and C-3PO by their side.

The medical droid, after it was done observing her, hovered over to the group as he said ‘Medically, she is completely healthy. For reasons we can’t explain, we are losing her.’

‘She is dying?’ asked Obi-Wan as he was surprised by the discovery, as were those who watched, even Luke.

‘We don’t know why.’ said the droid as he continued ‘She has lost the will to live. We need to operate quickly if we are to save the babies.’

‘Babies?’ said Senator Organa as he watched

‘She’s carrying twins.’ said the robot before he left, whilst Obi-Wan watched, as Padme was resting, for now.

All of a sudden, the red side, gaining everyone’s attention, showed Anakin, burned and scarred, with a sound of his heartbeat, echoing the room, with droids appearing all around him, trying to fix him up by giving him new legs and an arm. And there Anakin was, screaming in agony as the droids did their work, whilst he was flailing and the screaming got a lot worst, shocking every creature and pony, even Luke when they saw what Anakin was going through.

However, their attention was brought back to Padme, as she too was screaming, with Obi-Wan by her side, trying to comfort her in her time of need. The was now giving birth to the twins, with the droid helping her. The droid helped carry the first baby as it brought it over to Padme.

‘Luke.’ she said, suprising Luke, as she just named him on the spot. ‘Oh Luke.’ she said as she placed her hand over to the baby.

The droid however, was not done, with Padme continuing with the screaming, delivering the second baby. The droid was able to save the second, and brought it over to her.

‘It’s a girl.’ said Obi-Wan as he wanted to help her see.

‘Leia.’ said Padme, naming her daughter.

They then saw Anakin again, who was now covered in strange new armour, all in black, with a cloak connected to it, as well as a breathing apparatus in order for him to survive. Suddenly, a strange metallic arm held what appeared to be part of a helmet. Slowly it ascended and soon, covered his face with it, as another helmet were placed above the crown of his head. The moment it was connected, the apparatus activated, causing it to breathe, emitting the sound of a Decor scuba reg., the very chilling breathing apparatus that would serve as a warning, that the Dark Lord has come, with Luke watching, realizing how his father was now cursed into wearing that.

They watched back at the blue side again, as Padme struggled to breathe. ‘Obi-Wan.’ said Padme, gaining his attention whilst he was holding Luke. ‘There’s good in him.’ she said, trying to stay awake ‘I know. I know there’s…still-‘ was all that she could say, and with that last breath, she died on the table, much to Luke’s shock. Even the Young Six couldn’t handle it, with Silverstream crying over Gallus’ shoulder. Obi-Wan showed signs of distraught, as well as Yoda.

Back at Anakin, now Darth Vader. He was slowly raised whilst the table had been shifted, allowing him to stand up straight. He slowly tilted his head, looking straight ahead, whilst at the same time, the Emperor stood near Vader, trying to gain his attention as he said ‘Lord Vader? Can you hear me?’

The breathing apparatus allowed him to breathe, whilst he said ‘Yes master.’

Slowly, he looked at the Emperor, wanting answers as he asked ‘Where is Padme? Is she safe? Is she alright?’

The Emperor laid down his final card, the one that would led Anakin to the Dark side, forever. ‘It seems, in your anger, you…killed her.’

‘I…I couldn’t have.’ he responded as he looked forward. ‘She was alive, I felt it.’

What appeared to be a struggle, Vader tried to get lose, whilst at the same time, the room shook, and every metallic object, robot and chemical that was in the room, began to cringe and crush, with everything being torn apart on the walls. Many were surprised when they saw the power of the dark side, until Vader got lose and took a few steps forward in anger, with the Emperor smiled, knowing that his manipulation had now been sown.

‘NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!’ yelled Vader in despair, whilst it was too much for Luke, but he continued to watch as a tear was shed from his left eye.

When all of a sudden, both the red and blue sides of the room disappeared, taking them to what appeared to be a ship’s conference room, where Bail Organa, Obi-Wan and Yoda were now discussing what they should do now.

‘Hidden, safe the children must be kept.’ said Yoda as he talked to both Bail and Obi-Wan.

Obi-Wan, with his head lowered over the loss of one he called brother, lifted his head as he said ‘We must take them somewhere where the Sith will not sense their presence.’

Yoda sighed, for he knew what they had to do. ‘Split up, they should be.’ he said, much to the ponies’ shock, that the siblings had to be split up in order for them to be safe.

‘My wife and I will take the girl.’ said Bail Organa as he was the first to volunteer. ‘We’ve always talked of adopting a baby girl. She will be loved with us.’

‘And, what of the boy?’ said Obi-Wan as he looked at Yoda.

‘To Tatooine,’ he said as he looked at Obi-Wan ‘To his family send him.’

Obi-Wan looked down, then looked to Yoda as he said ‘I will take the child and watch over him.’

Both Bail and Obi-Wan stood up, bowing to Yoda one last time as he said ‘Until the time is right. Disappear, we will.’
They saw a different environment, a planet of mountains and snow, which they believe would be Alderaan. And from atop what appeared to be a balcony, Bail’s wife was sitting there, watching the horizon. She then saw Bail walking in with baby Leia, with the both of them admiring and caring for her.

Then on another, was a desert planet, with what appeared to be a type of farm, with Obi-Wan approaching the woman, Luke’s aunt Beru, handing over the sleeping baby Luke to her, with her smiling as she happily accepted the baby. She then walked over to Luke’s uncle, Owen, staring at the two suns as they were setting. Obi-Wan watched as the child was now taken care of, with him walking away, knowing that the future now rests in the twins’ hands, once they were older.

As the vision ended, many were surprised to see what had transpired, as they didn’t know what to say. But the Mane 6, noticed that Luke kept staring, with both his eyes shedding tears as he was dumbstruck by what he had just witnessed.

Luke stammered a bit, until he said ‘I need some air.’, causing him to leave the room in a quickened pace, with the others concerned over what they had just seen.

A short while, the Mane Six were worried about Luke, over what he had just witnessed. ‘Luke? Are you out here?’ asked Twilight as she and her friends entered the balcony.

Rainbow Dash poked at Twilight’s shoulder, showing her where he is. They saw him, leaning against the wall, whilst he was looking up as the tears were still flowing down. They walked over to make sure he was okay.

‘Hey uh…’ responded Applejack as she took down her hat. ‘Y’all okay there partner?

‘I…I can’t believe it…’ said Luke as he finally spoke. Though a Jedi would not be consumed with emotions, but when a man witnessed what both his parents went through and what his father had done and became Darth Vader, it was too much for him to bear. ‘My own father…attempted to kill my mother…what he had become…I…I just…’

Luke sat down, still leaning against the wall, sobbing silently, with Fluttershy’s comforting instincts kicked in, as she couldn’t help but hug him in order to comfort him, with the others gathering around him, trying to be there for him.

Applejack responded as she tried to speak ‘It’s alright there partner. If it helps, ah know what it’s like to lose mah parents. And Apple Bloom was only a little filly when they passed away, and she never knew them well either.’

Applejack then lifted his chin, allowing him to look at her as she smiled. ‘But y’all still have yer sister, and from what ah can guess, y’all have some good friends that helped you along the way. It’s better to have something, then to have nothing.’

Luke was able to smile, and wiped his tears away. ‘Thank you Applejack.’. Luke looked at Twilight as he said ‘And I have you to thank as well.’

‘Me?’ responded Twilight as she was surprised.

‘Yes.’ Luke responded, now calmed as he stood up. ‘I heard tales from the Clone Wars from those who fought there before, even from Obi-Wan and Master Yoda of what happened to the Jedi, but they didn’t tell me the full story. But now, witnessing the battle. I can see why Obi-Wan never talked about it, because it was just as painful for him back in the day.’

‘You finally have a sense of closure, right?’ asked Fluttershy.

‘Yes.’ responded Luke. Look gave a sigh, and looked at the others. ‘I think it’s best that I continue with the story.’

‘You sure about this Darling?’ asked Rarity, as she was worried that he might be upset again.

‘Yes.’ said Luke as he looked at Rarity. ‘I need to finish what I told, and I need to tell you why I am here. So shall we continue?’

‘Sure thing Luke-a-Rooney.’ said Pinkie Pie as she darted over to the door at great speed and opened it. ‘Come on.’ she said as she skipped and giggled at the same time.

‘I take it she’s always been like this.’ said Luke when he saw how happy Pinkie Pie is.

‘Yeah,’ said Rainbow Dash as she crossed her front hooves ‘And that’s why we love her.’

They then walked back inside, where Luke would continue with his story. For he still needs to tell them two things; the Rebellion, and why he came here.

Author's Notes:

I hope this chapter is good. I know Luke was a bit out of character, but I felt like he had the right to know what happened with his parents, seeing that Obi-Wan and Yoda didn't want to share that information with him. Plus I figured that Luke would be wise enough to tell the story of the Republic and the Jedi Order, including the Sith.

As I said, I hope you enjoy this chapter.

Chapter 4: The birth, the war and the victory of the Rebellion

Author's Notes:

Well, here it is. Sorry it took so long. Lockdown's not making things easier. But I was able to finish. Enjoy the chapter and let me know what you think of it.

After things were cleared up, many were eager to hear Luke’s story.

‘So, what happened,’ said Celestia as she was curious ‘After you and your sister were placed into hiding?’

‘Whilst my sister and I were in hiding,’ said Luke as he continued ‘The Empire’s grip throughout the Inner and outer rim territories began to spread. Each year got worse by the minute. After the clones were decommissioned, they were replaced by those who willingly joined the empire out of greed and action, and they soon became the first Storm Troopers.’

‘And if they refused?’ asked Luna.

‘They were to be captured, and brainwashed into joining the Empire’s regime. Those who would refuse were killed on sight, sending a message to spread fear across the galaxy.’

Many were shocked and disturbed by Luke’s revelation of the empire.

‘Whilst my father, Vader,’ continued Luke ‘Continued to fight across the galaxy to keep them in line, the emperor took over the Jedi Temple and used it as his own personal office, having full access to the archives and uses them to find and destroy any Jedi secrets left behind, so that no Jedi would be born in order to rise again and fight the Empire.’

‘I see.’ said Celestia as she didn’t like the emperor, but hated him.

‘But thankfully,’ said Luke as he continued ‘Senator Organa didn’t want to just sit around and do nothing. For years he and my father’s Apprentice, Ahsoka Tano, secretly sent out his own soldiers and trained others to fight in their stead. In turn, they would go around and cause trouble for the Empire to keep their grip from grasping the rest of the untouched territories. In time others were also inspired by his courage and had secretly created other Rebel Cells, long before the Rebellion took place.’

‘And…the surviving Jedi?’ asked Twilight, concerning for those who did survive.

‘Some of them died over the years,’ said Luke, answering Twilight’s question. ‘But thankfully, some of them did join the Rebellion. And of them, a padawan who was only two years older than myself and my sister, had sent out a message to not only worlds that were close to his home, but to the higher levels, namely the old Republic Senate who bowed to the emperor out of fear. Over time, other Rebel Cells came to be under Senator Organa’s tutelage.’

‘Was this long before y’all were formed?’ asked Applejack as she too was now interested in their story.

‘Yes.’ said Luke, answering Applejack’s question ‘But only two of them came to help him. Senator Organa’s wealth helped them fund the Rebellion whilst Senators like Garm Bell coordinated the recruitment of starships and battle ships to their cause, whilst Mon Mothma did the same with their soldiers. As soon as they were enough, Mon Mothma denounced her role as Senator and vowed to be a leader of the Rebellion. And as such, many ships from other worlds gathered to their cause, as well as other Senators who rallied their forces to join the Rebellion.’

‘And did you take the fight to them?’ said Spike.

‘Unfortunately no.’ said Luke as he answered Spike’s question. ‘Many of the people from different worlds were still afraid to fight back. However, what the rumors they heard made them even more afraid.’

‘Like what?’ asked Twilight.

‘A powerful space station, with the power to destroy planets.’ said Luke, much to their shock once more.

‘Destroy…planets?’ said Twilight as she felt like she was going to hyperventilate.

‘Yes.’ said Luke as he continued with his story ‘But thankfully, a large platoon of rebels, known as Rogue One, infiltrated an Imperial Outpost that stored the information about the station, and half of the Rebellion, who still had the will to fight, sent every ship they had and attacked the Imperial blockade that protected the planet. Rogue one sacrificed themselves to ensure that the information would be sent to them in time. And my sister was part of the attack and escaped with the information.’

‘Where was your sister going to take this information?’ asked Luna.

Luke couldn’t help but smile as he said ‘I’ll give you a hint.’

Sure enough, Luke pulled out another disc, and displayed a hologram of his sister, trying to send a message.

‘General Kenobi,’ said Leia through the recording ‘Years ago you served my father in the Clone Wars. Now he begs your help him in his struggle against the Empire. I regret I am unable to present my father’s request to you in person. But my ship has fallen under attack and I’m afraid my mission to bring you to Alderaan has failed. I have placed information vital to the survival of the Rebellion into the memory systems of this R2 unit. My father will know how to retrieve it. You must see this droid safely delivered to him on Alderaan. This is our most desperate hour. Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope.’

After the message ended, Luke placed the disc away, with Luna saying ‘So your sister’s adopted father requested his aid.’
Luke answered whilst his arms were behind his back. ‘Yes, but the Jedi of old were over. Kenobi felt like he no longer had a place in the galaxy anymore. That it was now up to the young to protect the galaxy, and not the old.’

Celestia chuckled. ‘Oh, we know the feeling.’ she said as she looked at Twilight and her friends, gaining their attention as some blushed and some giggled, and some had smirks on their faces.

‘And your sister could not reach him?’ said Mistmane.

‘No, her ship was under attack by an Imperial ship, led by my father, who would accomplish a mission no matter what the cost. They boarded their ship, but two beings, known as C-3PO and R2-D2, droids that once belonged to my parents, were able to escape with the station’s plans whilst they were over Tatooine’s atmosphere. However…they were, conflicted at first.’

‘Conflicted? What do you mean?’ asked Twilight.

‘Let’s just say Artoo has a habit of getting himself into trouble, and 3PO has a habit of complaining over certain situations.’

The Young Six ended up laughing, with Luke cocking one of his eyebrows as he wondered why they were laughing.

‘Now that both miss Rainbow Dash and miss Rarity have in common,’ said Gallus. ‘Miss Rainbow Dash always gets herself into trouble and miss Rarity always complains about everything.’

He got cold stares from both mares, but everyone also laughed, for they know it was true. Luke chuckled, seeing how well they got along.

‘In any case.’ said Luke as he continued ‘As if by fate, they ended up on my old home’s doorstep. Both my uncle and aunt were farming to sell what they harvested, but me…’

‘Your heart wasn’t in it.’ said Stygian.

‘Yes,’ said Luke as he answered Stygian’s question. ‘I wanted to go out to see the galaxy. Most of my friends had already left and gone, and I was the only one who was left behind. Yet as by fate, Artoo left to go look for Obi-Wan, so 3PO and I went after them. I bumped into Obi-Wan, who changed his name to Ben at the time to hide his identity. He told me of my father and taught me about the Force. He offered that I would go with him…’

‘But you were conflicted?’ said Celestia, much to Luke’s surprise.

‘Uh, yes.’ he responded ‘How do you know?’

‘Believe it or not,’ said Celestia as she explained ‘My former student Twilight, felt the same way when I told her to make friends.’

‘I see.’ said Luke.’ But in any case, the Empire sent their Storm Troopers to hunt down the droids who were carrying the information about their station, known as the Death Star. But as I was on my way to take Kenobi and the droids to one of Tatooine’s spaceports, we stumbled upon some Jawa scavengers who were slaughtered. I recognized them because they did business selling what they could to help with my Uncle’s farming. Kenobi revealed that the Storm Troopers were the ones responsible. And then I realized that if the Storm Troopers were responsible for what happened, they would head for my home. But when I got there…’

Applejack shockingly realized what it meant. ‘Yer Uncle and Aunt didn’t make it, did they?’

Luke nodded no, much to the others’ shock. ‘I went back to Kenobi and he told me that I would’ve been killed too if I remained there. Out of heartbreak I chose to go with him. For there was nothing left for me there anymore. I even asked him to help teach me the ways of the Force and become a Jedi like my father. When we were at the spaceports, we met two individuals that would be my best friends. Han Solo and a Wookiee named Chewbacca.’

‘Han and Chewbacca?’ said Spike as he was confused.

‘Han is what you call a smuggler.’ said Luke as he explained his friends to them. ‘He once joined the Empire’s military because he wanted to earn some credits so that he could find the love of his life. But he has a habit of running his mouth and always gets himself into trouble.’

‘Sounds familiar?’ said Pinkie Pie as she and the others looked at Rainbow Dash with a smirk, causing her to pout as she crossed here forelegs.

‘Chewbacca on the other hand is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyk, a planet filled with Wookiee warriors who fight with honor and rely on nature to help guide them to their future instead of relying on others to fight for an unjust cause. Though ever since the Empire took over, they’re driven in fear.’

‘What do you mean?’ asked Rockhoof ‘If they’re mighty warriors, how come they didn’t keep on fighting?’

‘Back during the days of the Republic, the Wookiees were more than that, they even had good ties to the Jedi Order, considering that the Order of old freed their world from an organization who wanted to use them as slave labor, as did Master Yoda long before the Clone Wars. But after the Empire took over, the Wookiees did the best they could, even helped saved most races that were captured, but the Empire ended up outsmarting them and captured the entire planet, using them as slaves.’

Many gasped in shock, with Rarity shivering a bit. Luke noticed as he asked ‘Something wrong?’

‘It’s just that,’ Rarity started ‘When our home was invaded by a tyrant called the Storm King, we had to find help, so we ended up in a desert town called Klugetown. It still disturbs me that the inhabitants wanted to buy us, thinking that we were slaves.’

‘I see.’ said Luke. And he did the unexpected, he slightly bowed to her as he said ‘Then I apologize for bringing that word up Rarity. I did not mean to make you remember such things, or made you feel uncomfortable.’

Rarity on the other hand was surprised by Luke’s gentle nature as well as his well mannered tone. She walked over to him and placed her hoof against his right leg, gaining his attention as he looked at her.

‘Oh, it’s quite alright darling.’ said Rarity. ‘Though it was not necessary, I am thankful that you gestured in such a tone.’
The two of them exchanged smiles, allowing her to return to the group so that he could continue with his story.

‘After Kenobi persuaded Han to help,’ said Luke as he continued ‘We were able to flee Tatooine and its Imperial blockade. But as we left, we arrived at Alderaan too late.’

Flash Magnus then realized what he was getting at. ‘The Empire used that station to destroy Senator Organa’s home, didn’t they?’

‘Yes, they did.’ said Luke, answering Flash Magnus’ question. ‘As we continued to fly, we were intercepted by the Empire, who captured us and took us to the Death Star. As we got aboard, we had to find a way to disable the device that pulled our ship towards them. As Kenobi went to shut down the device, the others and I attempted to rescue Leia when we realized she was onboard.’

‘So you went to rescue her?’ asked Fluttershy ‘Did she knew that you were her brother?’

‘No,’ said Luke as he nodded no ‘Neither of us knew. But as we tried to find a way to our ship, Kenobi succeeded into turning the device off, he stumbled upon my father.’

Twilight widened her eyes, realizing that this wasn’t going to end well. ‘And…they ended up fighting?’

‘Yes. We eventually made it to our ship. But unfortunately by the time we got back, I saw Kenobi and Vader continued to fight. Kenobi…sacrificed himself so that we could escape. He was finally at one with the force.’

Some were saddened when he told them. ‘In any case,’ said Luke as he continued. ‘We were finally able to reach Yavin 4, the Rebellion HQ so to speak. They only had thirty pilots at their disposal because the rest were scattered, trying to do what they could to free most of their worlds from the Empire. but we were able to decipher the plans and found a weak spot that would destroy it.’

‘And let me guess,’ said Rainbow Dash as Luke noticed that she got excited ‘You were part of the battle.’

‘Yes,’ said Luke. ‘We tried our best to fight back, but the station’s defenses and their squadron of flyers made it difficult for us as we gained more casualties. Thankfully, I was able to make it towards the Death Star’s weak spot, fired upon it, and destroyed the station.’

Rainbow Dash squealed in excitement as she held onto her cheeks. ‘However, our victory couldn’t be celebrated, and we couldn’t stay there anymore.’

‘Why not?’ said Pinkie. Till she suddenly realized. ‘Oh, I get it, even though you destroyed their station, they still knew the location of your base, so you had to evacuate to a new planet so that you could still maintain a strong presence in the Rebellion right?’

Luke was surprised that she quickly caught on. ‘Uh, yes, that’s right.’. Luke looked at Twilight as she caught on that he wanted to know how she knew.

‘That’s just Pinkie being Pinkie.’ she said as she shrugged her shoulders. ‘So what’s next?’

‘After we left, we found ourselves on the planet Hoth, a planet covered with snow. It was the perfect cover for us, because the storms there masked our base. But what we didn’t realize, was that the Empire continued to hunt us down, trying to find us. Little did we knew that they found one of our generators.’

‘And did you find them?’ said Starlight as she was now interested in the story.

‘Uh, not exactly.’ said Luke as he rubbed the back of his head whilst he felt embarrassed to admit it. ‘I got captured by a huge monster that nearly ate me whilst I was on patrol.’

Some were surprised by what he said, with Fluttershy yelping. ‘But I managed to escape,’ said Luke as he reassured them. ‘Although I was tired and wounded and I couldn’t move. That was, until I saw what I thought was real.’

‘What?’ asked Yona.

‘I saw Kenobi, but as a ghost.’. Many gasped by the revelation.

‘He told me to go to Dagobah, where Master Yoda had been in hiding all these years. For he would help me train to become a Jedi, as he taught him. I reached out to him, wanted him to help me. But at the moment he disappeared, my friend Han came from out of nowhere. He went looking for me in the snow storm whilst he was also worried.’

‘Aw,’ said Silverstream as she thought it was adorable ‘He was worried and he really cared about you.’
Luke couldn’t help but chuckle. ‘Yeah, he did.’

‘But let me guess,’ said Gallus ‘The Empire eventually found you and the rest of the Rebellion?’

‘That is correct,’ said Luke, answering Gallus’ question. ‘When the Empire invaded, the Rebel soldiers and I tried their best to hold down the fort whilst the rest would try to escape. Han, Leia, Chewbacca and 3PO escaped with their own ship, whilst Artoo and I eventually escaped and headed for Dagobah.’

‘Where you’d find Master Yoda?’ asked Fluttershy?

‘Yes. Although when I first met him, he acted a bit odd, like he pretended to be a lonely hermit living on his own, until he revealed himself when he sensed my impatience. But thanks to the spirit of Kenobi, he and I persuaded Yoda to train me. So for the past months I trained, I tried to learn the ways of the Force. Though it was…difficult, he never gave up on me. But during my training, he mentioned about my friends being gone. And for some reason, I could sense they were in danger.’

‘Wait,’ said Spike ‘So instead of remaining on that planet to finish your training, you just rushed off without thinking?’

‘That I did,’ said Luke when he felt a bit uneasy ‘I was very young and didn’t know any better.’

‘So you went to rescue your friends?’ asked Sandbar.

‘Yes, but I was too late.’ said Luke ‘It turned out that the Empire captured a city that Han’s old friend, Lando Calrissian, was in charge of. Han was captured and taken to the Hutts.’

‘Hutts?’ said Pinkie ‘What, like some kind of shelter or something?’

‘No,’ said Luke as he chuckled. ‘The Hutts are actually a crime family that ran its own criminal organization for thousands of years. Neither the Republic or Sith were able to quash their ranks. The Empire on the other hand allowed them to continue their criminal activities, which didn’t sit too well with the innocence of the Republic.’

‘Wait,’ said Applejack as she was confused ‘If they’ve been in power of the criminal elements for years, how come no one’s made a move on them?’

‘Believe it or not,’ said Luke as he answered Applejack’s question ‘They have powerful connections in the government, even the Senate, because they tend to “help” them out of their financial or security detail, and in the end, they ask for their services in return. If not…well I don’t want to go further into the details.’

Luke got off track and continued his story. ‘Anyway, after I arrived, my friends tried to rescue Han and also tried to escape. But me on the other hand, I ended up walking into a trap and faced my father. I continued to fight him through different parts of what appeared to be a facility. We continued to fight until we were able to reach a platform, above what appeared to be what you would call a bottomless pit. But as I fought, I got overconfident and ended up having my hand cut off.’

They were shocked by what he said, until Pinkie then noticed something. ‘Hey, wait a minute. You said you lost your hand, so how come you still have both hands?’

Luke chose to answer her question and took off his right glove. He showed his robot hand to them, much to their shock. ‘Is that a…prosthetic hand?’ asked Twilight when she chose to take a closer look by flying and land near him, whilst also looking at his hand.

‘In a way,’ said Luke ‘This is far more better than a prosthetic. If one loses a limb in battle, you’d be able to get what we would call a cybernetic replacement. We still have usage, as if our limbs had never been removed.’

Luke placed his glove back as Twilight was fascinated by what she saw. ‘Fascinating.’

As she flew back, Luke continued with his story. ‘After I lost my hand and my Lightsaber, I ended up climbing to the end of the platform, trying to get away from him, whilst at the same time, he tried to tempt me to the Dark Side. That’s…that’s when he told me that I had a hard time grasping.’

‘He told you he was your father?’ asked Rarity.

‘Yes. I didn’t want to believe him. He wanted me to rule the galaxy with him, but I refused. So I escaped. And I ended up in a different part of the city, hanging on for dear life, nearly afraid of falling.’

‘And your sister rescued you?’ asked Spike.

‘Yes,’ said Luke as he slowly smiled ‘I was able to reach out to her using the force. She heard me and flew towards where I was hanging on with dear life. They saved me and we were able to escape. Once we did, we regrouped with the Rebel Fleets, who were able to regroup and tried to stay in hiding from the prying eyes of the Empire. 3PO, R2, Leia and I stayed behind whilst Lando and Chewie left to look for Han on Tatooine, the home of Jabba the Hutt.’

Pinkie then gasped loudly and began to said everything in one huge breath. ‘So you guys went to Tatooine and you sent 3PO and Artoo to Jabba’s palace in order to find Lando and Chewbacca, but they were secretly undercover trying to determine on how to save him as he was still frozen in carbonite and as they were detained, Leia freed him from his frozen prison but was also captured, so you tried to rescue him too but it backfired and he took you and the others to be fed by some scary Meanie pit monster. And just before it ate you, all of you ended up launching a surprise attack as Leia killed Jabba, that bounty hunter that took Han got eaten by the monster and you kicked butt whilst also destroying Jabba’s ship after you rescued the two droids that fell into the sand and you fled like some dangerous explorers and you two ended up going your separate ways as your friends went back to the Rebel fleet whilst you went back to Yoda to continue your training?’ said Pinkie as she ended up smiling making a squeak sound.

Luke was stunned by how she was able to figure it out so quickly. He stammered a bit and shook his head. ‘Uh…uh, well…yes.’. Luke looked at Pinkie’s friends with a stunned expression.

‘Trust me,’ said Rainbow Dash as she shrugged her shoulders ‘You don’t wanna know.’

Luke decided to continue with the story whilst trying his best to ignore Pinkie’s astute observation. ‘But by the time I arrived, Master Yoda was sick, whilst also showing his age as well as he showed how weak he felt. So he chose to rest on a nearby bed, but I asked him to tell me the truth; is Darth Vader my father?’

‘And did he answer?’ said Luna.

‘Yes.’ said Luke ‘But he said that it was unfortunate because I chose to rush to face him, that my training was incomplete, and that I wasn’t ready for the burden that came along with it.’

‘Now where have we seen that before?’ said Spike with a smirk as he looked at Twilight, as were the others, remembering that she didn’t want to make friends and wanted to face Nightmare Moon head on, whilst she wasn’t ready for the burden as being the new Princess of Friendship, with her glaring, but also blushed as she felt embarrassed.

Luke continued his story as he said ‘Master Yoda continued to tell me that a Jedi’s strength flows through the force, and if I went down a dark path, it would forever dominate my destiny. He also told me that I mustn’t underestimate the Emperor, or I would suffer my father’s fate, and that once he’s gone, I would be the last Jedi. He also told me that the Force runs strong through my family, and that I should continued to pass on what I had learnt. And with his last breath…he told me that there was another Skywalker. And in the end, he passed away, being one with the Force.’

Many felt sorry for Luke as he told the passing of Master Yoda. ‘So what happened afterwards?’ asked Mage Meadowbrook.

‘Before I left, I saw the ghost of Master Kenobi.’

‘Wait, a ghost?!’ said Twilight shocked ‘How?!!’

‘Once a Jedi passes on, they go to the Netherrealm of the Force. But every often once in a while, the spirit of Jedi’s past make themselves known through ghost form, aiding those who wish to build the future of the Jedi.’

Many were amazed by what Luke revealed. ‘And,’ said Fluttershy as she gulped, being nervous around ghosts and all. ‘What did he want.’

‘Came to offer advice.’ said Luke as he still remembered the conversation between him and Kenobi. ‘I asked him why he didn’t tell me the truth. He told me that my father had been seduced by the Dark Side of the Force, that he ceased to be Anakin Skywalker and became Darth Vader, when that happened, the good man that he was, was forever destroyed. He told me that was the truth from a certain point of view.’

‘A certain point of view?’ asked Rarity.

‘It was a way of learning that out of the many truths we cling onto, we always depend greatly on our own point of view.’

‘Wow, now that’s really familiar.’ said Spike, as he remembered where he and Twilight tried to solve why Applejack, Rarity and Pinkie Pie hated each other, when it turned out to be a huge misunderstanding.

‘He told me that ever since the day he first met my father,’ said Luke ‘He was already a gifted pilot, but he was also amazed that the Force was strong within him. He took it upon himself to train my father as a Jedi. He thought he could do a better job than Yoda. And he ended up being wrong.’

‘And after that?’ said Rainbow Dash.

‘He wanted me to face my father again, but I didn’t want to kill him. Obi-Wan thought that the Emperor had won, but I told him that Yoda spoke of another. He told me that the other was my sister. He even explained that to protect us both we were hidden from our father when we were born. The emperor knew as Kenobi did, that if Anakin were to have any offspring, they would be a threat to him. And that was the reason, why my sister remained safe.’

‘And that’s when you figured out that Leia was your sister.’ said Twilight, who was finally relieved that Luke finally knows that Leia was his sister, seeing that she shared the same bond with Shining Armour.

‘Yes,’ said Luke. ‘But he told me to bury my feelings deep. He told me that it may have done much credit for me in the past, but it could be made to serve the Emperor’s cause.’

‘And what happened afterwards, after your talk with Obi-Wan.’ asked Stygian.

‘After I spoke to Obi-Wan,’ said Luke ‘I returned to the Rebel Fleet. But it wasn’t just a single fleet, every Rebel ship from across the galaxy gathered. Something big was going down. As it turned out, the Empire constructed another Death Star.’

The ponies were shocked to hear this ‘They built another one?’ said Spike.

‘Yes, and it was thanks to our spies we learnt that the station was still under construction and not operational yet, and the Emperor himself was overseeing the construction there. They also learnt that it was orbiting the forest moon of Endor. Though the Death Star wasn’t operational yet, it was protected by an energy shield, so that the station itself would be protected from heavy attacks. So we made a plan to take down the shield so that one of the pilots could fly through the superstructure and destroy its reactor, the very thing keeping the station stabilized. If we were able to destroy it, then the station would fall as well.’

‘So, I take it you came up with an awesome plan.’ said Rainbow Dash as she got excited to see where this was going.
‘Indeed. Lando, who was promoted to general because of his mission on Tanaab, had volunteered to lead the fleet to attack the station, whilst Han, Leia, Chewbacca, myself, R2 and 3PO would lead a strike team on the moon to deactivate the shield generator.’

‘That sounds a tad bit risky, doesn’t it?’ asked Rarity when she was concerned with how many lives would’ve been lost.

‘It was, but we were desperate.’ said Luke. ‘After we were able to infiltrate the Imperial Fleet, we were able to land on the planet, as well as made contact with the native population called Ewoks, who gladly joined our cause to help us, thanks to 3PO. But…’

‘You were afraid that your father would find you on Endor, and that your mission would be in danger.’ said Luna, knowing the feeling Luke had been feeling.

‘Yes.’ said Luke. ‘But before I left, I spoke to Leia. I told her that Vader was on the moon, and that I had to face him, even telling her that he’s my father. And that if I didn’t make it back, she would be the only hope for the Alliance.’

‘I take it she doubted herself.’ said Celestia.

‘Yes. But I told her that she too had that power, and that she would learn how to use it overtime. The Force had been strong in my family. That my father had it. I had it. And my sister had it. In a way, she knew that we were siblings, and she was against me facing him alone, and that she wished that she’d have gone with me. But I told her that I had to face him, because I felt the good in him. And that I had to try.’

Some were surprised, that even though Luke had been young, even if he weren't ready to be a Jedi like Yoda told him, he still wanted to face Vader, to help those in need. He truly was a brave young man.

‘Afterwards I allowed myself to be captured and I waited for him.’ said Luke. ‘I tried to talk to him, tried to release his darkness from his heart, but he wouldn’t budge. So he took me aboard the station, where the Emperor had been waiting for me.’

‘And the plan?’ said Applejack, now that she felt a bit tense because of Luke’s story.

‘Whilst I was on the station, Han and Leia continued with their plan to try and bring the shield generator offline, whilst Lando, along with an Admiral named Ackbar, led the entire Rebel Fleet to Endor. But whilst going on with their mission, they realized too late that they walked into a trap.’

‘And um…’ said Fluttershy as she let out a loud gulp ‘What did they do?’

Like rebels always do,’ said Luke as he smiled ‘They adapt and they fight until they could not fight anymore.’
‘And you and the Emperor?’ said Starlight.

‘He continued to tempt me with the Dark Side, trying to use my own feelings against me. I decided to make my move, but instead of striking down the emperor, I chose to fight my father. We continued to clash and I continued to try and bring him to the light. That was…until he brought in Leia to the conversation.’

‘He tried to use your sister against you?’ said Sunburst.

‘Yes,’ said Luke ‘He told me that if I wouldn’t turn to the Dark Side, then she would. I on the other hand refused and attacked. We continued to fight, and I struck him down. He was on the ground, still breathing as he looked at me, but my anger nearly consumed me. The Emperor attempted one more time to tempt me, but I remembered what my father went through when he was reduced to the Dark Side. I refused, and told the Emperor I would never be turned to the Dark Side. That he had failed, for I am a Jedi, like my father before me.’

‘And I take it the Emperor wasn’t pleased by your answer.’ said Luna.

‘No,’ said Luke, still remembering the electrical surge that went through his body. ‘The emperor kept hitting me with his Force Lightning. I could barely move, but through my anguish and pain, I begged and pleaded to my father that he would help me. I nearly died that day.’

‘What happened?’ said Rockhoof.

Luke then had a soft smile as he was happy about that day. ‘My father turned back to the light of good, and he saved me, by vanquishing the emperor, and throwing him of the rails.’

‘So your father became good again?’ said Fluttershy.

‘Yes,’ said Luke, ‘But after the Emperor’s demise, I tried to help carry my father to a nearby ship, but he was too wounded to move further. With his last breath, he asked me to remove the helmet, allowing him to see me with his own eyes. I wanted to save him, but he told me that I already had, and said that I was right about him. That I should tell Leia that I was right. He…died in my arms moments later.’

Many were shocked to hear the fate of Anakin. ‘But during that time,’ said Luke as he continued ‘My friends on the planet’s surface were able to take down the shield generator, whilst they sent a small group of pilots towards the station’s reactor. As I escaped, they were able to destroy the station, thus, gaining a massive victory for the Rebellion.’

‘And…your father?’ asked Luna.

‘I gave him a proper burial.’ said Luke. ‘After I did that, the entire galaxy rejoiced that they were now free from the grip of the Empire, and soon, I reunited with my friends.’

‘And I take it you didn’t want to celebrate?’ said Somnambula.

‘No,’ said Luke as he kept his arms behind his back. ‘Even with the galaxy freed from the Empire, and even though both the Emperor and my father were gone, I knew that without the Jedi, there would be no balance in the Force, so I chose to leave my friends behind, and search the answers I sought. But before I did, I trained my sister in the ways of the Force, so that she would be prepared for the future that was to come.’

‘So y’all decided to come here?’ asked Applejack.

‘No, long before that.’ said Luke. ‘After I left, I trusted enough in the Force to guide me. It took me to an un-colonized planet called Pillio, where the Emperor had a secret vault there. As I arrived, I realized that the Empire had arrived there too, the remnants of them anyway. They continued to try and find the vault, but with a friend I made, I was able to get to the vault, and find this.’

Luke pulled out the compass as he showed them. ‘This is a special compass that allows any force wielders to help them find what they were looking for.’

Luke pressed the button on the side, and within a flash, the compass filled the entire room with a hologram of the entire galaxy he was from, much to the ponies’ awe.

‘Incredible.’ said Starswirl as he looked around. ‘So these are worlds that are beyond the stars?’

‘Indeed.’ said Luke ‘What you see here, and the planets that are highlighted in blue, are the planets that the Jedi visited over the centuries as they learn to pass and hide knowledge of the Force, as do the Sith, who visited the planets that are highlighted red.’

‘But why to those worlds?’ asked Twilight.

‘Because of this.’ said Luke as he presented a list, a list Twilight levitated to her as she looked through the content herself. ‘What you see there are a list of Jedi Temples that the first Jedi constructed long before the Order began.’

Twilight tried to take a look at it, but could barely make it out. Thankfully she used a translator spell that allowed her to decode it. She saw five names on it, wondering what they were. ‘And what was contained on the list?’

‘The list of Temples that were constructed on planets like Ahch-To, Ryndellia, Tython, Toydaria and Takodana. But unfortunately the temples were no good. The Temple on Ahch-To didn’t contain any knowledge, the Temple on Ryndellia was destroyed during a powerful storm, the Temple on Tython was destroyed during the last Sith war, the Temple on Toydaria had been raided by pirates and the Temple on Takodana, home to an old friend of mine, was destroyed in an earthquake.’

‘Awww,’ said Pinkie as she felt sorry for him ‘So you felt like you wasted all of that effort for nothing?’

‘Yes,’ said Luke, but looked to them as he smiled with some hope in his heart ‘But thankfully, I discovered a sixth temple that they hid long ago, far beyond the galaxy’s borders.’

‘Oh, really, where?’ said Pinkie.

Luke was silent for a few moments. However, to her shock, Twilight caught on pretty quick. ‘Wait,’ she said as she finally said something ‘You mean to say that there’s a Jedi Temple, in Equestria?!!

‘That’s right.’ said Luke to assure her that what he said was true.

Many creatures were shocked to learn the truth, with Celestia standing up as she walked towards Luke ‘But that’s impossible, my sister and I had ruled Equestria for a long time, and I watched over our kingdom for a thousand years, and I never saw any temple, or even heard of one.’

‘Hmmm,’ said Luke as he placed his fist under his chin, thinking. ‘Perhaps the temple had been built here long before this kingdom was founded.’

‘It could be possible,’ said Starlight as she stood next to Twilight ‘There wasn’t much history about this land during the Pre-Equestrian times.’

‘Then it looks like I’ll have to search for the location of the temple by tomorrow.’ said Luke as he crossed his arms.

‘I’m sure my former student Twilight and her friends will help you on your journey.’ said Celestia with a smile as she looked at Twilight, with her and the rest of the Mane 6 smiling, eager to help him.

Luke smiled, appreciating the assistance. ‘That would be most…’

When all of a sudden, a guard burst through the doors, panting out of exhaustion. ‘Your highness, we have a problem.’

‘What is it?’ asked Luna as she joined her sister.

‘There is a large object flying towards the castle,’ said the guard ‘It is in the shape of a circle and makes a horrible roaring sound.

Luke suddenly realized what the guard was talking about as he said out loud ‘Oh, no.’, prompting him to run outside, with the others following him.

As he got outside, he saw his ship, the Ebon Hawk, flying towards the castle, but thankfully, it had begun to land at the courtyard instead. As the ship landed, he quickly ran towards the ship, with the others following suit. As he stopped, the ship landed as its ramp opened. The guards taking positions and prepared for a fight.

However, slowly coming out of the ship, was none other than R2-D2, beeping casually as if nothing happened. The ponies were surprised by what they were seeing, but Fluttershy on the other hand cooed and made a squee noise at the same time, for she thought the creature was cute.

Artoo slowly moved down the ramp and looked around, with one of the guards standing close to him as he said ‘Don’t move.’

Artoo made a few beeping noise, making him sound angry that he was being threatened. He suddenly deployed something from its torso, gaining the guard’s attention ‘What the…?’

Artoo then zapped the guard, making him yelp, as Artoo gave chase and kept zapping him whilst the guard trotted away.

‘Hey!!’ shouted the second guard as he and a few others attempt to give chase, until Artoo deployed some oil on the ground, making the guards slip and fall on top of each other.

‘Come here you!!’ shouted the third guard, with Artoo using his jet propulsion to lift himself as the guard missed him.

Artoo then pulled out two of his small robotic arms and grabbed two spears and held them in the air like a barbarian.

‘Aah, he’s armed, run!!’ shouted the fourth, with the guards running away as they panicked, with Artoo chasing them all over.

The ponies were greatly surprised by what was going on, even the Young Six. For the guards were getting their flanks handed by a small creature.
‘Wow, feisty little fellow, ain’t he?’ said Smolder whilst she was amused by what Artoo was doing at the same time.

‘That’s nothing,’ said Luke ‘You should’ve seen what he was like before and during the Clone Wars.’

‘And like I said,’ said Spike with a smirk on his face ‘Never underestimate small packages.’

Luke couldn’t help but chuckle as he took a few steps forward and called out ‘Alright, that’s enough Artoo.’

Artoo noticed Luke, and suddenly chirped whilst he beeped happily, dropped the spear, and went over to Luke.

‘Artoo,’ said Luke as he stood on one knee ‘What are you doing here?’

Artoo beeped away as he explained to Luke.

‘A four headed monster was coming towards the ship and you were afraid that it was going to eat you?’

Artoo beeped again, explaining things further.

‘Oh come on, it couldn’t have been that bad.’

Artoo beeped as he sounded frustrated.

‘Okay, but that was on Dagobah, it wasn’t my fault you got swallowed by a swamp beast.’

Artoo beeped again, but this time a bit angry.

‘Okay, okay, I’ll take your word for it, but you could’ve called you know.’

Artoo beeped again as it shook its head. Then from behind the ponies stood near Luke.

‘Luke, who exactly is that?’ said Ocellus as she saw Artoo.

‘This, is R2-D2,’ said Luke as he stood up and introduced Artoo. ‘We’ve been through a lot together. He was with both my father and Master Kenobi since their youth, helped them alongside the Clone Wars, helped the Rebellion, and chose to come with me. He saved my life more times than I can count.

Artoo beeped in pride as he shook back and forth. Fluttershy couldn’t contain herself as she flew down and hugged it. ‘Oh my gosh, it’s so cute.’

Artoo beeped, but from the sound of it, he felt embarrassed.

‘So, what,’ said Rainbow Dash as she hovered next to Luke ‘You can understand it?’

‘If you can study it enough, yes.’ said Luke. ‘I worked with droids like this for a long time in my youth. You’d be surprised how much I could learn.’

Luke suddenly felt embarrassed as he remembered the times he got impatient when he learned from Yoda. ‘Even if I didn’t have the patience for it.’

‘In any case.’ said Celestia as she got their attention. ‘I think it’s best if we continue with this in the morning. If you do not mind Skywalker, we have a room prepared for you in the guest wing just in case. I hope it will suit your need?’

‘That would be most appreciative your highness.’ said Luke as he bowed.

‘Princess, mind if we tag along.’ said Ocellus as she looked at Twilight. ‘I really like to see what Luke can do.’

‘Okay, but first thing in the morning,’ said Twilight ‘And I don’t want you to miss out any schoolwork whilst we’re at it.’

‘You got it,’ said Gallus, until he silently said ‘Not.’

‘I heard that.’ said Twilight, making Gallus cringe over when Twilight overheard him.

‘Then it settles it,’ said Luke ‘I look forward for all of you to accompany me during my journey. It always helps traveling with companions.’

‘Especially if they’re best friends!!’ shouted Pinkie Pie as she jumped onto Luke’s back, nearly making him fall over.

‘So I noticed.’ said Luke, feeling like he was going to fall over.

As he was able to stand up again, and all of them went to turn themselves in for the night, Luke walked towards the castle, with Artoo going back to the ship, since the princesses assured that nothing will happen to it.

‘Something tells me this is going to be an interesting adventure.’ said Luke as he went towards his guest room to turn in for the night.

Chapter 5: The map of the Temple's trail

Author's Notes:

Sorry it took so long. Had to think really carefully about what was going to happen. I tried to get as creative as possible. But as usual, let me know what you think. I think you'll like this one.

A new day dawns as the sun slowly rises from the hills, thanks to Celestia’s magic. From within the castle’s guest room chambers, whilst Luke had managed to get some sleep, he chose to meditate as he sat down with his legs crossed and his hands placed on his knees. He continued to breathe, focusing, and concentrated by being mindful of the future.

‘I am with the Force, and the Force is with me. I am one with the Force, and it shall guide me.’ he kept saying to himself over and over.

As he continued his meditation, he felt a tremor in the Force, making him open his eyes slowly. He had a feeling that whatever he felt, he was right on track.

Artoo moved towards Luke and beeped a few times. ‘No Artoo,’ said Luke as he stood up ‘I can feel a tremor in the Force, but it is too faint for me to detect. If I am going to find what I’m looking for, I need to go to a place where the Force is at its strongest.’

Artoo beeped again, suggesting he’d go to where he first met them. ‘To the forest they mentioned?’

Luke was deep in thought, thinking about what Artoo had suggested. ‘Hmm, perhaps I could give it a try. Artoo, can you pass on the message to them?’

Artoo beeped, agreeing with Luke’s demands.

A few hours later, Twilight and the others arrived, wanting to get a head start before waking up the Young Six. Twilight knocked on the door with her hoof, trying to get Luke’s attention.

‘Excuse me, Luke?’ said Twilight, trying to be patient. ‘Are you awake?’

All of a sudden, the door opened, revealing Artoo coming out, as he beeped to them.

‘Oh, hello there Artoo.’ said Fluttershy ‘Do you know where Luke is?’

Artoo beeped again, whilst using his lens to create a hologram of Luke, much to their surprise.

‘Hello girls,’ said Luke as he greeted them whilst the message played. ‘Sorry I couldn’t be there to greet you, I decided to go out to take in the scenery. But do not worry, I am far from danger. I decided to go to the place where we first met. I will be back shortly.’

As the message ended, Twilight and the others however, didn’t show relief, but worry on their faces.

‘The Everfree Forest?!’ shouted the Mane Six when they realized where he was.

A minute later, Twilight teleported the Mane 6 to the Everfree forest, with them looking around. However, Fluttershy noticed what appeared to be a light, causing her to move towards it.

‘Alright,’ said Twilight as she instructed the others ‘We’ll have to split up from here. If you find him, call us, and we’ll rush right over.’

‘Um, Twilight.’ said Fluttershy, gaining the others’ attention. ‘That won’t be a problem.’

They saw that she was standing a few feet away from them, which made them go to her to see what she was seeing, not realizing that she had a look of awe on her face.

‘What?’ said Applejack ‘Did y’all found…him…?’

As the rest of the Mane 6 arrived, all of them were too in awe, when they couldn’t believe what they were seeing. From the forest, there was a large clearing. From the center of the clearing was a large rock. And on top of that rock, was none other than Luke.

He was on top of the rock, meditating, whilst floating at the same time. But he also glowed blue, sparking a much more powerful energy that none had ever seen. And all around Luke, were larger objects like rocks and boulders, all floating around as if they were being carried by a mysterious force.

Luke took a few breathers, until he hit the final one, and landed on the rock he was sitting on slowly, as well as the other rocks and boulders that were floating about. He slowly opened his eyes, and saw the Mane Six standing there, watching him in awe when they saw him did what they saw him do.

‘Oh, good morning.’ said Luke whilst standing up and jumped off the rock he was sitting on. ‘I did not expect to see all of you early, given what time it is.’

‘Well, we just wanted to get an early start before the others.’ said Rainbow Dash.

‘Until we saw you do that floaty thing whilst holding your eyes closed and made every rock and boulder all around you float as if they were being carried by invisible ghosts, and have you ever considered doing this at pony children parties?’ said Pinkie Pie as she jumped all around like a bouncy ball, then landed close to him with a smile.

‘My apologies.’ said Luke as he walked over to the Mane 6, then stopped near them. ‘I needed to focus on the spot where the Force was its most strongest.’

‘To do what exactly?’ asked Fluttershy ‘If you don’t mind me asking?’

‘If there is a temple here,’ said Luke as he had his arms crossed ‘Then I need to get a clearer picture of where I need to go. Or at least find a clue on where I should go.’

‘And did y’all find anything?’ asked Applejack.

‘Well,’ said Luke ‘I couldn’t make it out. But from what I could tell, it had to be a place where books are being stored. And from what I could sense, its guiding me to Canterlot.’

Twilight realized what he was talking about. ‘The Canterlot Library?’

‘You know that place?’ asked Luke.

‘Of course.’ said Twilight ‘When I was still Celestia’s student, I used to go to the Canterlot Library a lot to study. And I last time went there to help a friend of mine when her friends’ memories of her were erased.’

‘I see.’ said Luke. ‘Would you please escort me there?’

‘Of course.’ said Twilight as she sounded excited, for she would get a chance to show a newcomer the very source of Equestrian knowledge.

Within moments, Twilight teleported Luke and the rest towards the Canterlot Library. Luke’s eyes were widened, but also smiled. For in a way being teleported felt exhilarating.

‘That was pretty handy.’ said Luke as he looked at Twilight ‘Wished the past Jedi before me knew how to do that.’

‘Thanks.’ said Twilight with a smile.

‘Ahem.’ said a voice. When they looked, it revealed to be the Young Six, with Spike, Starlight and Sunburst in tow, all three of them feeling tired whilst still sipping on coffee they had to buy near a coffee shop, with Artoo among them as well.
‘You didn’t think we were gonna miss this out, do you?’ said Smolder with a smirk.

‘But how did y’all know we were going here?’ asked Applejack with a flexed eyebrow.

‘Trust me,’ said Spike after he took another sip from his coffee ‘They wouldn’t stop nagging us for hours about going with you or missing out an adventure.’

‘So what are we waiting for?’ said Sandbar ‘Are we going to do this, or what?’

‘Of course.’ said Luke ‘The more the merrier.’

All of them walked up the stairs of the Canterlot Library and walked through the doors. As they got inside, half of them were surprised to see so many books in one place. ‘Impressive collection.’ said Luke as he looked around ‘The Jedi knowledge keepers would certainly praise this world for preserving this much knowledge of Equestria.’

‘That is what we aimed for when we first opened this place.’ said a familiar voice. As they turned around, they saw Celestia, Luna and the Pillars.

‘Princess Celestia?’ said Sunburst, clearly surprised to see them ‘What are all of you doing here?’

‘Especially this early?’ said Rarity when she was just as surprised.

‘When Luke mentioned a Jedi Temple in Equestria,’ said Celestia ‘We decided to dig up whatever knowledge we could find here.’

‘But so far we couldn’t find anything.’ said Starswirl ‘Which is strange, if any historian from the past had seen a temple here, we would’ve known about it.’

‘Sometimes the things you may look for,’ said Luke whilst speaking to Starswirl ‘Can be right under the nose of any seeker. It was what Twilight and her friends went through when they tried to find the Tree of Harmony.’

Twilight and the others were surprised to learn about this, with Luke looking at her as he said ‘I did some reading and asked Celestia to enlighten me of this world.’

‘Oh, of course.’ said Twilight, clearly surprised by his resolve of learning.

Luke decided to try something. He slowly stood on his knees and started to meditate whilst keeping his eyes closed. The others, who saw what he was doing, wondered what he was up to.

‘Uh, what are you…?’ said Rainbow Dash before Pinkie placed her hoof over RD’s mouth.

Luke sat there with his eyes closed, concentrating and ignoring the sounds all around him. Sure enough, through deep meditating, Luke felt something. It was faint, but thanks to the meditation he did at the Everfree forest, he was able to clearly see where he wanted to go.

Luke slowly opened his eyes and looked at the others. ‘I know where we need to go.’

‘You do lad?’ said Rockhoof as he looked at Luke.

Luke slowly stood up and continued walking forward. Curiously of what he was up to, every creature followed him. Luke walked past the book shelves and tables, walking down a path that Celestia, Luna and Twilight knew all too well; the restricted section, the very same section that Twilight went when Sunset needed her help in restoring her friends’ memories of her.

They continued down the stone hallway beneath the library. Eventually, they stopped in front of a large door:
‘I have not seen this before.’ said Starswirl as he looked at the door.

‘After you disappeared and Luna was banished to the moon,’ said Celestia as she explained ‘I built this place underneath the library, to store even the most dangerous and well kept secret of Equestria’s history and spells so that nopony can use them for their own benefits.’

Luke looked at Celestia ‘You banished your sister to the moon?’ he asked. ‘Why?’

Luna felt it was time for her to speak, for even though she doesn’t like to talk about it, she still needed help to adjust herself, even if others have forgiven her. ‘When Celestia and myself took the throne, we both have the power to control both the day and the night. But overtime, ponies loved the day then they loved my night. I felt jealous and turned to darkness. My sister tried to use the elements to free me, but she couldn’t activate their full power since the elements were slowly being disconnected from us. So she had to banish me.’

‘I see.’ said Luke ‘May I speak my mind?’

Luna nodded, wondering what Luke had in mind.

Luke looked at her and spoke to her directly. ‘Though you wanted to be loved, there is no shame in that, but there are other ways to be loved, rather than resorting to darkness.’

‘But I tried…’ said Luna, until Luke raised his hand, cutting Luna off.

‘As my master once said,’ said Luke ‘ “Do or do not, there is no try”. For sometimes the choices we make, is a natural part of life. We choose what path we take for the greater good of others, wanting to help those in need. For wanting something, outweighing the responsibility you have been given, can lead to jealousy, which only happens by the shadow of greed itself. For look at me, many times there were those, both my father and the Emperor included, that tried to seduce me to the dark side. And have I given into it?’

Luna slightly diverted her eyes as she said ‘No.’ in a sorrowful tone, before she focused her eyes on Luke.

‘You tried to make up for your mistakes, and it is admirable.’ said Luke ‘But you should also realize that though there are those who are afraid of the night, they love the light that shines above it, admiring the beauty of it. Like the sun, it can give life to keep the world in balance, and powerful both the sun, and the moon are. And through them, along with the magic, it created the life that you see before you. Makes it grow into what all of you were meant to be. The magic, as well as the magic of both the sun and moon, surrounds all of you. And binds you. There is magic everywhere.’

Luke walked over as he placed his hand on her shoulder ‘You will always be loved. Not by your night, but for the pony you are. For even if there are those who do not care for the night, the ponies who do remember you, admired you because of what you represented. You care, you love, and you would shield them from anything that would harm them. And those are the traits that you should be proud of, not from not loving your night.’

Luke released her shoulder as he said ‘Trust in your heart. And trust those that you’ve made friends with that love you for who you are, not what you are.’

Luna couldn’t help but smile, admiring the words Luke had said. For what he said was more worth than anything she had been given a thousand years ago. ‘Truly you are wise beyond your years.’

‘I had great teachers who showed me the way.’ said Luke. ‘You could say, I was like Twilight once upon a time.’
Twilight was surprised from Luke’s words, whilst he walked towards the stone door.

‘Oh, do not worry,’ said Celestia as she took a step forward ‘My sister and I will…’

‘Beg your pardon your highness,’ said Luke ‘But that will not be necessary.’

Luke closed his eyes and raised his right hand towards the door. Using the Force as he slowly moved his right hand from left to right. Within mere moments, the large stone unlocked itself and slowly opened, much to the ponies and creature’s shock.

‘What…?’ said Twilight as she had a hard time comprehending what she had just witnessed. ‘How did you do that?’

‘When you are trained in the ways of the Force,’ said Luke as he looked at Twilight ‘There are many roads that are presentable to you. Like for one, opening doors that takes the concentration of the mind to help guide it.’

‘Incredible.’ said Luna ‘Truly the Jedi Order have made marvelous strides into achieving what others deemed impossible.’

‘Shall we?’ said Luke as he was the first to walk inside.

As they got in, everyone, except Celestia, Luna and Twilight, were surprised to see what it looks like. ‘Whoa, so this is the place you and Sunset went to help find a way to help your friends?’ said Spike

‘Sure is.’ said Twilight as she looked at the place with pride.

After Luke continued to ascending down the stairs, he carefully observed the place, trying to find what he is looking for.

‘I’m not sure you’ll be able to find it Luke,’ said Twilight ‘I looked through all of the books and I haven’t found a single mention about a Jedi Temple.’

‘Sometimes looks can be deceiving Twilight,’ said Luke as his attention was suddenly gained towards the ground. ‘Sometimes even the most obvious places…’

Luke bent over as he placed his right hand onto the ground ‘Can be right under our noses.’

Within moments, he closed his eyes, and a sudden rumble followed. Without warning, a large square between the stairs and the table of the restricted section slowly opened, gaining everypony and every creature’s attention as all of them looked in awe. Celestia and Luna flew over towards the entrance and stood next to Luke, whilst looking at the entrance.

‘But that’s impossible.’ said Celestia in shock ‘I’ve been in here plenty of times and have not found a single door here.’
‘Indeed.’ said Luna ‘This looks much…older.’

‘The first Jedi must have built this tunnel before Canterlot had been built over the entrance.’ said Luke as he observed the entrance himself.

‘But why keep this place a secret?’ said Starswirl as he looked at the hole.
‘Because there was also the first Sith that later existed.’ said Luke ‘Fearing that they would be wiped out and the galaxy would be doomed by the Sith’s wrath, they chose to built temples as a contingency plan to help guide and train those who are Force sensitive. The temples I visited was destroyed, so they must have chose to come here, where none of them would ever think to find it.’

‘But wait,’ said Pinkie ‘If the Emperor used the Temple as his own personal office and he had direct access to the Holocron vault, wouldn’t that mean that the Empire would’ve found their way to Equestria?’

‘If the Empire were to be brought here we would’ve known about it,’ said Luke as he looked at Pinkie ‘When the Rebellion began we managed to turn most of the Empire’s top agents into our spies, which made our jobs somewhat easier when we tried to take the fight to them.’

Fluttershy gulped, whilst she slowly looked at Luke. ‘Are we, um, going down there?’

‘If it would help me find the temple and restore the Order,’ said Luke as he stood up ‘Then that’s the only plan of action we can take.’

Luke was the first to climb down the stairs, making his way towards the darkness. Artoo tried to follow suit, but ended up losing his balance and fell over, rolling all the way down the stairs, even passed Luke, making him run after him. The others were stunned when they saw Artoo going all the way down.

‘Oh my goodness, oh my goodness.’ said Fluttershy frantically as she panicked and ran all the way down just to make sure Artoo was alright.

The others followed suit, wondering if their Astro Mech friend was alright. Finally, they were able to reach the bottom of the stairs, and thanks to the unicorns, they were able to lit up their horns and shone their light within the darkness.

‘Oh my,’ said Rarity ‘It’s really dark in here.’

‘No kidding,’ said Starlight as she tried to look around ‘I can’t see anything in here.’

Stygian then noticed something. ‘Wait, look.’ said Stygian as he pointed at the wall. ‘Those must be torches.’

‘Maybe we can lit them with fire to see where we can go.’ said Ocellus as she looked at it.

‘I got it.’ said Spike as he flew to the one on the left.

‘I got the one on the right.’ said Smolder as she flew to the right one.

At the same time, the two dragons used their dragon flame to set alight the torches. But within an instant, it allowed other torches to activate all over the hall. Once the hallway was not alight, they could see where they would be going. However, they saw there were many images all over the cave walls, what one would call cave paintings, except it had been edged in stone. The images were that of many strange looking being, on one side, looked like ponies with hoods on, with horns sticking out from under their hoods, whilst the other part were what appeared to be beings that stood on their feet instead on all fours.

Many were surprised to see what was before them. Celestia however, took a closer look to see what they looked like. Her face went from curiosity to shock, instantly recognizing them.

‘I…I know of this.’ said Celestia, taking the others by surprise.

‘Princess?’ asked Luke, with the Mane 6 curious about how she knew about them.

‘When my sister and I were fillies,’ said Celestia as she looked at them ‘Before Starswirl became our teacher, the ancient Unicorn Sages once told that they were visited by ancient beings among the stars.’

Starswirl was surprised, as he too remembered it. ‘Indeed. Shortly after Equestria was founded, the ancient beings had permitted them to explore our world and impart and leave behind knowledge that future generations would one day find and use to restore a balance that would soon be ruptured.’

‘And afterwards,’ said Luna as she looked at them ‘When they were done, they left much knowledge behind, saying that only the worthy would find it. Soon afterwards, they returned to the stars, never to return again.’

‘Well,’ said Spike as he looked at the hall ‘At least we know that we’re in the right direction.’

‘Then it would be best if we moved on,’ said Luke as he took a few steps forward ‘But we wary, if they left knowledge here, then it would most likely be a trap. We do not know what the first Jedi had left in their absence.’

All of them continued to walk down the hall, whilst some took a glance at the so called cave paintings, as it showed the images of the first Jedi, continuing to tell their story. Wanting to know more, Twilight was able to take pictures of the images and placed them in her folder, wanting to know more about the story of the first Jedi and why they left their secrets on their homeland.

But after another ten minutes, they were able to see light up ahead. As they arrived, they noticed it was another hall, but this one was different. It was much more wider. There were strange markings on both sides of the walls, which neither the ponies or Luke could depict what they are.

‘Looks harmless enough,’ said Gallus as he took a few steps forward. ‘Come on, let’s…’

When all of a sudden, Luke realized something as he shouted ‘Gallus, wait, don’t!!!’

All of a sudden, two massive blade like objects appeared from both sides of the wall, making Gallus jump forward, until fire burst itself from behind, burning his tushy as he yelped like a chicken, and darted back with the others. He sat down, with his butt burnt whilst twitching his left eye.

‘Wow,’ said Sandbar as he looked at Gallus ‘You almost look like a…’

Gallus suddenly placed his claw on top of Sandbar’s mouth, whilst looking at him with a stink eye as he said ‘I don’t wanna hear it man. Not, a word.’

Luke crouched and placed his hand on the floor, studying it as he kept a careful eye onto the ground. ‘Pressure pads,’ said Luke as he took a good look at it. ‘It seems that the first Jedi constructed these traps to ensure that no one would be able to cross them.’

‘So what,’ said Smolder ‘Can’t we just fly over there?’

‘That would not be wise.’ said Luke. He placed his hand under the light, causing spikes to appear from the air, nearly onto Spike’s level, which shocked the others whilst they saw the spike were being slowly raised in the air. ‘The light rays show that any who stand under them, would most likely be impaled.’

‘Wow,’ said Fluttershy as she took a good look at them ‘They must’ve thought everything through.’
‘We can try to cross this, if we’re fast enough.’ said Luke as he took another look.

Rainbow Dash’s ears perked when Luke mentioned about being “fast enough”, making her smirk as she hovered next to him. ‘Don’t worry Luke,’ said Rainbow Dash with a confident smile ‘I got this.’

Rainbow Dash stood firmly on the ground, preparing herself for both fast flying and fast running. ‘On your mark,’ she said as she got prepared. ‘Get set. Go!!’

Within a split second, Rainbow Dash flew and ran superfast from one spot to another, triggering every trap, whilst also avoiding them at the same time. After about a few feet of travel, she was finally able to make it.

‘Ha!!’ she boasted as she looked back ‘I’d like to see the Jedi try to beat my…’. However, her overconfidence made her paid little attention of the last trap behind her, which resulted her into triggering it, and blew fire behind her, burning her tushy as she yelped and neighed loudly like an ordinary horse.

‘Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.’ said Rainbow Dash as she tried to rub her tushy.

‘Can you see a lever over there?!’ shouted Luke, trying to get her attention.

She noticed a lever near her and winced whilst she was moving, considering her butt is still sore. She reached her hoof towards the lever and pulled it, allowing it to do something as the floors made strange noises.

Luke took a few steps forward. As he did, he realized that his hunch was right, whilst he sighed in relief, for the traps were now deactivated. ‘It’s all clear, it’s safe to move.’ he said as he turned to the others.

They sighed in relief too, allowing them to move forward to continue with their journey. They were able to make it to the other side, with Fluttershy going over to see if Rainbow Dash was alright.

‘Rainbow Dash, are you alright?’ said Fluttershy as she was concerned for her friend.

‘What, do you think.’ said Rainbow Dash as she pointed to her slightly burnt butt. She was able to turn around as she said ‘I won’t be able to sit for a week.’

‘Now don’t you worry there Rainbow,’ said Applejack as Rainbow walked alongside them ‘Ah got a remedy that’ll help with that uh, roasted rump.’

They continued with their journey for the next mile, until they were finally able to reach a nearby door. As they stopped, they inspected the door, until Luke grunted loudly whilst holding his head with his one hand, which was a sign, gaining the others’ attention as they looked at him.

‘Luke, are you well?’ said Luna when she noticed Luke felt something off.

‘I sense something. Something…dark.’ said Luke as he looked at the doors. ‘I have a feeling that there will be another test behind those doors.’

‘Hopefully something that doesn’t involve burning one’s butts off.’ said Rainbow Dash as she rubbed her tushy.

‘I’m with you there sister.’ said Gallus as he agreed with her.

Luke walked forward and placed his hands against the doors, pushing it with all his strength and was able to open it. As the doors were now wide open, Luke walked inside, looking around, trying to see if there were any more traps.

‘Hmm, no traps, no fire statues or funny looking blades,’ said Pinkie as she looked around ‘I guess it’s all…’

However, Luke signaled them to stay where they were, for things would become dangerous, if his senses are correct. He walked towards the center of the room. The moment he finished his next step, the ground suddenly shook, making Luke stand still, trying to determine what else this place had in store for him. From out of the ground, appeared six different statues, all who appear to be Jedi wearing robes, as well as weapons like Vyborg blades. Luke was curious about what the statues meant. That was, until the statues started to move on their own, picked up their swords and headed straight for Luke, much to the ponies and the Young Six’ surprise.

‘Whoa, moving statues?’ said Sandbar when he was surprised to see what he couldn’t believe ‘That’s something you don’t see every day.’

The statues slowly began to surround Luke, who stood there and did nothing, whilst he had his eyes closed. The others however, wanted to help.

‘Come on,’ said Rainbow Dash, who didn’t want to leave him hanging ‘We gotta help him before…’

And within a split second, Luke activated his Lightsaber and swung left and right, slicing the first two statues in half, then used Force Push to push the other two away, making them crash and shatter against the wall. Luke threw his Lightsaber as it twirled near the last two, slicing them in half as they collapsed. Luke then caught the Lightsaber the moment he raised his hand in the air, and shut his Lightsaber down. He lowered his right arm and turned around, leaving many in awe of what happened.

‘Uh, never mind.’ said Rainbow Dash as she slowly sat down.

‘Wow,’ said Rockhoof ‘The lad is stronger than he looks.’

‘I’ll say.’ said Ocellus after she too was surprised.

Luke managed a smile, until it instantly disappeared when he sensed something. The others wondered what was wrong and approached him. They stood near him for a few moments, as Twilight asked ‘Luke, what’s wrong?’

‘I sense, something dark.’ said Luke ‘Something…ancient.’

Luke slowly turned around as the others kept his eyes on him. His eyes widened, as he saw something. When the others watched what he was seeing, they too were surprised by what they were seeing. For at least at least ten feet away, a man wearing a dark black robe, slowly walking with his armored shin and black boots, black gloves, as well as grey wrist gauntlets, grey shoulder pads and a mask covering his mouth, whilst a hood shrouded his face, but not his deep dark yellow eyes as he looked at them. He stopped when he was at least three feet away from them.

Everyone was stunned at first, watching a mysterious figure, standing before them, whilst Twilight, Celestia, Luna and Starswirl sensed something wrong with it.

‘So much evil.’ said Starswirl as he couldn’t believe his eyes.

‘So much…Darkness.’ said Luna, as if she was feeling the Nightmare Moon madness.

‘What…is that?’ said Celestia, barely coping with such evil.

‘I…don’t know.’ said Twilight, who was feeling fear in her heart just by looking at it.

‘Everyone get back,’ said Luke as he signaled them ‘I will handle this.’

Luke slowly walked in a circle, trying to gain the being’s attention, with the being kept looking at Luke, as if he discovered something interesting about them.

‘Ah, I see now.’ said the being, his voice echoing as if it was darkness incarnated. ‘You are a Jedi? No doubt the last of its kind.’

‘What…are you?’ said Twilight, as if she was now afraid.

The being did not pay attention to Twilight, for he was still focused on Luke. ‘Do you know who I am?’ said the being, standing his ground.

‘Yes, stories from my childhood, told by my master.’ said Luke. ‘You’re Ajunta Pall. Once a powerful Jedi Master who served the Order with honor and strife, until you and those who trained and followed you were corrupted by the Dark Side, thus the Jedi Order had no choice but to banish you. Once you arrived at Korriban, you vowed vengeance against the galaxy, making yourself into the first Sith Lord, expanding your empire from there to other worlds who were seduced by the Dark Side, growing the Sith into an army.’

‘Indeed,’ said Ajunta Pall ‘We were going to be the greatest masters of the galaxy, until the Jedi and their light snuffed us out as they drove us back from the shadows. But just far beyond their galaxy, something far worse than I trained the next Sith, who vowed they would never stop until the galaxy was on their knees. And if they resisted, their planets would be devoured until they were an empty husk.’

‘Yes, but you ended up being betrayed.’ said Luke, now keeping his stance ‘The Sith always betray one another. Always.’

‘Oh?’ said Ajunta.

‘Yes,’ said Luke ‘Maybe you haven’t heard about Darth Bane. He was born a millennium after you were gone. After the last war against the Sith, they ended up slaughtering each other in droves, for all of them were victims of their own greed. He even created the Rule of Two, a Master and an Apprentice. When the Apprentice trains their own student, they kill the master. As it has always been for a thousand years.’

Ajunta was silent for a few moments, then he spoke again ‘You lie.’ he responded in anger ‘The Sith would never resort into hiding their numbers. We were a vast army that would strike fear throughout the galaxy.’

‘Then clearly you have missed out.’ said Luke as he smiled ‘The Sith are no more, and I will ensure that the Jedi will live once again.’

‘And I will ensure that the Jedi will be reduced to nothing but a memory.’ said Ajunta, with his yellow eyes glowing darker.’

‘We shall see.’ said Luke as his smiled faded away.

Luke pulled out and activated his green plasma blade Lightsaber as he uses his Form V, or simply known as the Djem So, the same as his father’s. Ajunta pulled out his two red plasma blades Lightsabers. The two of them continued to stare each other down, trying to determine their move. The ponies and the Young Six watched as they were somewhat surprised of the two warriors that were about to clash.

‘This is going to be awesome.’ squealed Rainbow Dash as she got super excited.

Luke stood his ground, holding his Lightsaber firmly. Within a split second, Ajunta attacked head on and jumped in the air and struck, with Luke blocking Ajunta’s attack. The Lightsabers cackled as they clashed together, with Luke pushing Ajunta away as he moved forward. Their Lightsabers continued to clash as they kept swinging, blocking, striking, both who were trying to outsmart the other. Luke was able to dodge left and right, whilst using Force Push to, well, push Ajunta a few feet back.

Ajunta leapt in the air and raised his Lightsabers in the air, trying to strike Luke down, but Luke’s reflexes made him duck out of the wait, jumped up in the air and returned the favor, with Ajunta blocking Luke’s Lightsaber, trying his hardest to press him down, but to no avail. Ajunta pushed Luke back, trying his best to strike him down, but Luke kept back flipping, trying his best to avoid Ajunta’s attacks, but Luke stood his ground again, trying to counterattack the Sith Lord.

Luke blocked left, right, then performed a swift kick from the side, which Ajunta blocked and pushed it away. Luke swung his Lightsaber around like his father did and Ajunta ended up blocking it and pushed him back. Luke attacked again as Ajunta blocked his attack three times. Luke swung his Lightsaber, but Ajunta ducked, then leaned, which gave Luke an opening as he kicked him far from him. Luke threw his Lightsaber as Ajunta jumped in the air, which was a mistake as Luke used Force Push to push Ajunta a few feet from him, but Ajunta was able to stand his ground the moment he landed.
As Ajunta stared down at Luke, still holding his twin Lightsabers, Luke kept his ground as he performed Form III, a favorite technique of Obi-Wan. The ponies who saw them were surprised to see how the two of them faced in combat.

‘So…awesome.’ squealed Rainbow Dash as she was excited to see how the fight turned out.

‘Incredible,’ said Rockhoof ‘If those two are like that in combat, I wonder how an entire army would look like?’

Luke and Ajunta charged towards one another once more, engaged in combat, trying to outmaneuver one another, which resulted Ajunta back handing Luke, as he countered Ajunta with a sweeping kick. The two continued to clash their blades from left, right, below, above, as well as twirling their Lightsabers and clashing them towards one another.

Ajunta kneed Luke in the gut and double fisted him as he landed on his one knee. He knocked Luke’s Lightsaber out of his hand, and with great force, tried to jab him. But to his surprise, Luke used the Force to block Ajunta’s Lightsaber. But before either of them could make a move, Ajunta was knocked back by magic. He was able to regain his composure, looking at who caused it. Standing in front of Luke to defend him, was none other than Twilight.

‘Stay away from him.’ said Twilight, staring daggers at him.

‘No, Twilight,’ said Luke ‘He’s too powerful for you to face.’

‘Foolish creature.’ said Ajunta, whilst he instantly aimed his left hand towards the rest of the ponies, instantly creating fire to block them and keep them from entering.

Ajunta then used Force Push to knock both Luke and Twilight back, with Luke crashing against the wall, and Twilight inches away from him.

‘I will show you, insolent creature,’ said Ajunta as he glared at Twilight ‘What happens when you interfere and attempt to stop, the Lord of the Sith!!’

Ajunta then used the Force to grab Twilight and flung her hard against one part of the wall, then flung her hard against another. He picked her up using Force Grip, making her choke, trying to breathe.

‘None, can match the power of the Dark Side.’ said Ajunta, as he flung her at least two feet from him.

‘Twilight!!!’ shouted the ponies, knowing that they had to do something.

‘Twilight.’ said Spike, wanting to move, to save his friend…save his mother.

When all of a sudden, within that mere moment, all fell silent around Spike, as if time had stood still. He could feel a heartbeat, not his own, or just another, but as if…as if it was the heartbeat of harmony itself.

‘Wish to save her, do you?’ said a voice, with Spike having a feeling it feels familiar.

‘I do…more than anything.’ said Spike to the voice as time was still.

‘Wish to protect by seeking glory, do you? Or to protect what your heart tells you?’

‘I…I want to protect Twilight.’ said Spike ‘She’s more than my friend, she’s family. I don’t want to lose her. When I’m beside her, helping others. They make me feel…’

‘Alive?’

Spike was silent for a few moments, as he lowered his head. ‘Yes.’

‘Good.’ said the voice as it chuckled a bit. ‘A good heart you have, learn the friendships of those around you, you have. A true protector of harmony, you may yet be.’

Spike closed his eyes, concentrating for some reason as he gripped his claws as it trembled. He slowly opened his eyes, now staring with determination.

Twilight continued to struggle to stand up, with Ajunta standing a few feet away from her, grasping his fists as they were now charged with electricity. ‘Let me show you,’ said Ajunta with a cackle ‘The true power of the Dark Side.’

And with great force, he shot Twilight with his Force Lightning, with her shielding her eyes as she screamed ‘No!!!’

‘Twilight!!’ the others called out.

Twilight thought that her life would end, but noticed, the electricity didn’t hit her. But as she slowly looked up, her eyes widened, not expecting to see who was helping her.

It was Spike of all dragons, blocking the Force Lightning with his bare hands. He kept grunting, trying his best to hold the lightning at bay and absorb them through his hands in order to contain the lightning, whilst everypony were in awe when they saw what was going on. Luke watched from the distance as he too was surprised to see what Spike was doing.

‘The Force is strong within him.’ he said as he watched from afar.

After Spike as able to absorb enough Force Lightning, Ajunta stopped, with Spike staring at him down, as he said ‘Stay, away from her.’

With a thrust from his hand, he used Force Push, pushing Ajunta a few feet away from his usual spot. Spike took a few steps forward, wanting to make sure that Ajunta would stay away from Twilight. Ajunta chuckled as he too could feel the Force being strong inside Spike.

‘So the little one knows how to fight,’ said Ajunta as he used his Force Pull to pull his Lightsaber from its hilt and activated it. ‘Let’s see your skills with a Lightsaber.’

Spike reached out his hand and used Force Pull to pull Ajunta’s second Lightsaber and activated, holding it with both hands as he activated it. ‘Bring it ugly.’ said Spike as he was staring at Ajunta down.

Ajunta charged and Spike flew towards him. But with great instinct, Spike flipped over Ajunta, landing behind him, with Ajunta turning around to strike, but Spike blocked it. Acting as fast as he could, Spike jumped from one spot to another, clashing his Lightsaber against Ajunta, as if he was Master Yoda. Spike continued to fight against Ajunta with great speed. Spike kept flying backwards, wanting to make sure that Ajunta wouldn’t touch him.

Ajunta and Spike were then standing at the center, one blocking the other as their sabers were sparking as if they were swords, but more advanced and made of lasers.

‘Most impressive,’ said Ajunta as he looked over Spike ‘But even though you are strong with the Force, you are not strong enough to face the horrors ahead.’

Spike then smiled as he looked at Ajunta. ‘Well, you may have the power of lightning, but I have fire on my side.’

Within a split second, Spike blew out his flame from his mouth, making Ajunta growl loudly as he was caught off guard. But after two feet, he used his arm to block the flames, trying to protect himself from the flame itself.

As Ajunta stood there, he went back to position, wanting another go. As Spike was prepared for another go, Luke stepped in, as he said ‘No, we need to end this, now.’

With one powerful Force Push, Luke pushed Ajunta so far, he crashed against the wall. As he was pinned against the wall, he slowly moved forward from it, trying his best, but the Force in Luke was stronger than he anticipated. Luke combined both his hands and summoned the Force. With one massive and combined push, Luke used the most powerful Force Push he could muster. So powerful in fact, that it ended up creating heavy cracks on the ground. As it made its way towards Ajunta, it was so powerful, that Ajunta crashed harder than a star fighter against the wall, making part of the wall collapse onto Ajunta.

Luke stood there for a few moments, panting, for using the Force nearly took out a lot in him. Many were surprised to see how strong Luke was with the Force. As he took another look, at that he saw was a massive rubble from the all, with Ajunta’s hand sticking out of it. But in moments, Ajunta’s hand turned to smoke, as it dissipated, no longer leaving a trace. Looking at the Lightsabers of the fallen Sith, he used the Force to pull them towards him, including the one Spike was holding. He looked at the two of them, whilst he also activated them, revealing their red blades. But within mere moments, they changed to different colors. One turned green and the other turned blue. Luke could sense that the Darkness was no longer within the sabers, making him sigh in relief.

‘Artoo.’ said Luke, gaining its attention whilst moving towards Luke. Eventually moved closer as Luke stood in eye level of the Astro mech. ‘Take these sabers and place them in a compartment back to the ship until I can deal with them.’

Artoo took the sabers Luke handed and placed it inside its compartment, turned around and headed straight for the exit. The ponies on the other hand were really amazed by what Luke had done.

‘That. Was. Awesome!!!’ Rainbow Dash shouted, for it was the best battle she had ever seen.

Luke then looked at Twilight, turned around and walked over towards her. He noticed that she struggled to get back up, but was able to lend a hand. ‘Are you alright?’ said Luke, showing concern for Twilight.

‘I’m fine.’ said Twilight as she was able to stand on her hooves ‘Sorry about getting myself hurt. I was…’

‘I know. You were just trying to protect your friends.’ said Luke as he managed a smile, with Twilight smiling back.

As Spike went over to Twilight, she then went over to him. ‘Spike, how did…’ she responded, trying to process over what she had just seen.

‘I can answer that.’ said Luke as he walked over to Spike, and stood near Twilight’s level, observing him at the same time. After a thorough look, Luke smiled as he said ‘He is Force Sensitive.’

‘Force sensitive?’ asked Made Meadowbrook when she got closer.

‘Remembered when I spoke about the Force?’ said Luke as he stood up and explained to them ‘Those who are Force sensitive from the ages of six with the blessed with the power of the Force. Their senses are sharpened and they can find those who they are looking for, however, both sides, Jedi and Sith, know how to use it, but through light and darker means.’

Spike was surprised to hear this ‘So…you’re saying that, because I’m blessed with the Force, I could go down to the path of light like a Jedi…’

Luke finished his sentence as he said ‘Or go down a dark path like a Sith, where you will experience pain, suffering and death first hand, like my father.’

Spike was terrified by the revelation, as he slowly sat down and held his head. ‘No…no, I don’t wanna fall to darkness.’
Luke walked over and stood on one knee whilst placing his hand on Spike’s right shoulder. ‘You do not have to be. I once thought, like the Jedi before me, that my attachments to my friends will lead me to darkness, but it’s because of my faith in them as well as the good we did together, It drove me not to darkness, but a vow to be better, and help bring balance to the force like my father did when he came to the light, not destroy it.’

Spike looked down a bit, until Twilight stood next to him as she smiled whilst saying ‘Luke’s right Spike. When you experience greed growth and began to hoard everything around you, you were reminded of the friends you have.’

‘Or Rarity.’ Rainbow Dash muttered as she chuckled, until Applejack whacked the back of her head with her tail, making her wince in pain.

‘My point is,’ said Twilight as she ignored Rainbow Dash ‘We’re all afraid to be consumed by our darkness. We know first hoof what it was like to be consumed by our opposites and darkness that nearly led us to ruin.’

Some remembered it well. Like the Mane 5, who became complete opposites of themselves when Discord lied to them and corrupted them, or like Starlight who enslaved an entire village to be rid of their special talents, traveled back in time and nearly destroyed Equestria, or like Stygian, who was corrupted with Darkness after the Pillars casted him out of their group.

‘But it’s also because of our friendship we were reminded of the good we did, as well as the good creatures we are. As long as we have faith in each other, we can overcome any obstacle that comes in our way.’ said Twilight, trying to reassure Spike.

Spike managed a smile and wiped a tear away as he said ‘Thanks Twilight.’

But within mere moments, they heard the sound of moving stones. When they looked, they saw a path had been revealed.
‘Are there going to be,’ said Fluttershy as she gulped ‘More of the darkness to arrive?’

‘No,’ said Luke as he stood up and looked at the path ‘We passed the test. So now we can enter to achieve what we’ve been looking for.’

As they continued, Rarity asked ‘Do you always go through such uncouth lengths to get what you’re looking for?’
‘Sometimes,’ said Luke ‘But they don’t always try to kill you.’

‘You’ve been through something like this before?’ asked Somnambula when she heard Luke’s voice of experience.

‘Once.’ said Luke ‘When I traveled to Dagobah and trained there, I stumbled upon a cave that was strong to the Force. When I saw my father and defeated it, it’s helmet exploded, revealing my face in it, which was a sign, saying that if I go down a dark path, I would share the same fate like my father did.’

They continued to make their way towards the passage entrance. As they walked inside, they noticed that there were a set of library shelves against the wall, all that are made of stone. They were surprised to see what was inside.

Rainbow Dash only replied by saying sarcastically ‘Great, a library, Woo-Hoo.’

‘For once I agree with Rainbow Dash.’ said Gallus as he made it inside.

‘Are, you, kidding me?’ said Twilight as she grabbed both their faces ‘Books left by an ancient civilization from another world? Do you have any idea how valuable that is?!!’

Luke walked past the bookshelves and observed each of the books. Just as the others were in and looking around, Luke said ‘This isn’t it.’

The others looked at him and said ‘Huh?’

Luke turned around as he looked at them ‘These don’t contain the knowledge of the Jedi.’

‘But then what are they?’ said Ocellus as she looked at the books.

‘They mostly contain knowledge about most of our core worlds and the worlds of the Mid Rim, but no book containing about the knowledge of the Jedi Order.’

‘Aw,’ said Pinkie Pie as she felt somewhat sad ‘So we came all the way here for nothing?’

Pinkie Pie sat her rump hard on the ground, unknowingly sat on a secret step made of stone. The ground in the center slowly opened, gaining everyone’s attention as they were surprised in awe. But from within the opened ground, rose what appeared to be a platform. On that very platform, was a large stone coffin, with the symbol of the Jedi carved on top of it.

‘How did…’ said Smolder as she was baffled by what she was seeing.

‘Uh, I think I know.’ said Silverstream as she lifted Pinkie’s rump and showed them the secret stone step.

‘Huh, guess her butt was good for something.’ said Rainbow Dash with a smirk.

‘Hey, I like by butt.’ said Pinkie Pie with a pouty face.

‘So do I.’ said Sandbar, surprising every creature as he looked at him with flexed eyebrows. ‘What?’ said Sandbar as he tried to defend himself. ‘Cant another Earth Pony admire the wonders of pony anatomy every now and then?’

Gallus walked over with a flexed eyebrow and unamused look as he said ‘Real smooth pal, real smooth.’

Luke, who didn’t listen to their conversation, opened the coffin using the Force. As he looked inside, he saw a mummified person, whom Luke guessed was one of the first Jedi that once walked among this world. He took out what appeared to be a Lightsaber, but it looked different. When Luke activated it, he realized that it was a blue cross guard Lightsaber, gaining the others’ attention.

‘Why does that Lightsaber look different than the one Luke has?’ said Flash Magnus as he looked at it.

‘When a Jedi designs their Lightsabers, they come in different shapes and sizes.’ said Luke as he looked at it ‘My guess is, this was the first Lightsaber designed by the First Jedi long before the Order started.’

Luke looked inside and noticed a metallic cylinder inside. When he took it out, he realized that it was what many had used to hide scrolls inside. He detached the cylinder that was bind together and opened it, reading the scroll as he looked through them. Thankfully, Master Yoda and Obi-Wan taught him the language of the first Jedi over the years. The others noticed that Luke had been holding on to a scroll.

‘Oooh,’ said Pinkie Pie as she zipped right over ‘What’s it say?’

‘A scroll, written by the First Jedi.’ said Luke as he looked through them.

‘They wrote and left behind scrolls?’ said Twilight with a flexed eyebrow.

‘When Master Yoda told me when he became the Grandmaster of the Jedi Order, the Jedi had long feared that the Dark Side would grow stronger. Even though the Sith was gone after Darth Bane created the Rule of Two, they were afraid that they would wipe the Jedi out and in turn they would rule the galaxy, so the Jedi had contingency plans placed all around the Galaxy, so that if there was a Force Sensitive anywhere, they would eventually find them and learn the ways of the Jedi and restore the balance of the Force.’

‘But because of that there Empire,’ said Applejack as she pointed a hoof ‘They uncovered most of them and exploited it for their own use.’

‘But if the Empire found most of their contingency plans,’ said Fluttershy when she thought about something ‘Why didn’t they find the temple in Equestria?’

‘Master Yoda said that when he first started out as a Padawan,’ said Luke whilst continuing to read the scroll ‘He caught a Jedi erasing their archives about the First Jedi. He said that the First Jedi wanted to ensure that their greatest secret would remain, my guess is it was Equestria itself.’

‘Huh, that’s actually a smart move,’ said Spike ‘If the Empire had knowledge of Equestria, they would’ve destroyed it like they destroyed Alderaan.’

‘So, what does the scroll say Luke?’ said Celestia, wondering what he uncovered.

‘According to this scroll,’ said Luke as he looked at them ‘The First Jedi came here long ago, attempting to hide even their most sacred of texts, to ensure that if the Jedi would fall, they would leave behind instructions on how to master the ways of the Jedi, through both the Force and their Lightsaber skills. There are three groups of Jedi. The Jedi Guardian, who focuses on combat and Lightsaber mastery. Jedi Consular, who focuses their mastery of the Force. And Jedi Sentinel, those who are well balanced and posses many skills.’

‘Hmm, three groups of Jedi,’ said Starswirl as he pondered on it ‘It would make sense. Guardians trained for combat, Consular trained to carry on the knowledge of the force, and the Sentinel, who are the masters of both.’

‘The scroll also says,’ said Luke as he continued to read on ‘That during their visits, they made their journey through Equestria, and met with what they were known as the Sages. The Sages agreed to let them hide their knowledge and stated that only the worthy could find it. However, they did not want any kingdom to get their hands on the scrolls, so they allowed them to hid them in places called, the point where we once came from.’

Thinking about this for a moment, Twilight, Starlight and Sunburst gasped, and said out loudly ‘The original homes of the Pony Tribes.’

The creatures were surprised to hear what they said, with Luke flexing an eyebrow as he looked at them. ‘The original homes?’

‘Indeed,’ said Celestia as she told him the story ‘Long ago before Equestria was formed, the ponies of this world were separated from others. One was the Unicorn tribe of old Unicornia, led by Princess Platinum. One was the Pegasi tribe of old Pegasopolis, led by Commander Hurricane. And one was the Earth Pony tribe of old Dirtville. Back before Alicorns existed, they lived in separate kingdoms, having great distrust of one another.’

‘When the Windigos,’ said Luna she too wanted to tell the story ‘Ancient creatures that feed on hate and cast eternal winter came along, none could grow their crops and each tribe blamed one another, thinking that they were the ones who casted their spells. When they founded a new kingdom, they immediately drew the attention of the Windigos and imprisoned them in ice.’

‘But if it weren't for their second in commands,’ said Twilight ‘Clover the Clever, Princess Platinum’s advisor. Chancellor Pudding Head’s Secretary Smart Cookie and Commander Hurricane’s Private Pansy, they wouldn’t have realized that it was their friendship towards one another that saved their lives from a cold fate.’

‘So it was because of your friendships towards one another,’ said Luke as he looked at them ‘That you expelled the Darkness from within yourselves.’

Luke thought about it for a moment and said ‘All our lives, the Jedi code said that attachments were forbidden.’ He then looked at them and said with a smile ‘But all of you are living proof that your attachments to one another is what saved all of you from darkness. And if a world like this can learn that. Maybe I can too.’

The creatures in the room all smiled too, knowing that Luke had learnt of something important too. That was until Yona realized something. ‘Wait, if the First Jedi placed scrolls in Pony tribes’ kingdoms, then how come Yak and other kingdoms never heard of it?’

‘We do not know,’ said Luna ‘After Equestria was founded and many of the pony tribes moved there, knowledge of the Pony Tribes’ kingdoms were lost through the ages, forgotten even.’

‘The knowledge of the old pony tribes may have been gone in Equestria,’ said Luke as he showed them ‘But the First Jedi did not.’

He showed them a map of where the pony tribes’ kingdoms once were, which surprised them all. ‘Whoa, if they made a map of the old pony tribes’ homes…’ said Applejack.

‘Then maybe there’s a chance we can find all of them.’ said Rainbow Dash.

‘I don’t know.’ said Smolder ‘If I had to guess, all of you hadn’t been to your old home for centuries. It’ll be the first time any of you will set foot there.’

Twilight gasped as she realized that Smolder was right ‘You’re right. Then there’s much to do.’

‘I suggest we leave first thing in the morning.’ said Luke as he gestured them ‘We will need our strength once we’ve rested up.’

‘Whoa, no kidding,’ said Pinkie Pie as she looked at a pocket watch she pulled from out of nowhere ‘It’s nearly seven o clock.’

‘Seven o clock?!!’ shouted Luna ‘Oh no, I’m late!! So very late!!’.

She instantly teleported away in order to reach the castle surface. Ocellus yawned as she said ‘Yeah, you’re right. I could use some rest too.’

‘Very well,’ said Celestia ‘I suggest we all rest up for the night, and we’ll continue with our journey in the morning.’

And as such, all of them left the room, with Luke looking at the scroll, as he said ‘I’m so close. I can feel it.’ whilst he rolled it up, closed the coffin and returned to the surface, for tomorrow would be a new day, a day where their journey had only just begun.

Chapter 6: The Lost Kingdom of the Unicorns

Author's Notes:

Sorry for the long wait. Been busy with other projects. Hope you like this one.

As the sun rose, everyone gathered near the courtyard as they were able to gather their things for the long trip, even the Young Six, Celestia and Luna had packed their things for the long trip, for setting foot onto the ponies’ ancient homelands will be a great historical event for them.

‘Everypony got their things together?’ asked Twilight after she and Spike were able to get their things together. For Twilight was a handful of books and writing material, even some empty journals, with Spike carrying his usual gems.

‘We’re all good.’ said Rainbow Dash as she had her Wonderbolt Duffle bag, Rarity with her handful of suitcases, Applejack with both her saddle bags, Fluttershy with her animal feed in case she meets new animals, as well as a few clothes to dress up in case the places they go to are cold, with Pinkie Pie carrying her usual, Pinkie Pie things. Starlight and Sunburst also came along as they had their things ready.

‘You sure the school will be fine without us?’ said Applejack when she saw Starlight coming along.

‘Don’t worry Applejack,’ said Starlight as she looked at AJ ‘I asked Trixie, Maud, Spitfire, Big Mac and Zacora to fill in just in case things don’t work out well.’

Some looked at her with flexed eyebrows as they had concerns. ‘Wait, Zacora is teaching a class?’

‘Oh, don’t worry,’ said Fluttershy as she looked at them with reassurance ‘Zacora said that she was once a teacher where she came from. And thanks to her experience, she’ll make a fine teacher.’

Luke approached the group as he walked over to them. ‘Is everyone ready?’

‘Of course Master Skywalker,’ said Celestia as she stood near him ‘We’re just waiting for our train to take us to where we need to go.’

‘Actually,’ said Luke as he had something else in mind ‘We can always take my ship.’

Many were surprised by Luke’s offer. ‘Wait, we get to go,’ said Twilight, until she said with a loud squeal as she placed both her hooves against her cheeks ‘On your spaceship?!!’

Luke chuckled by Twilight’s excitement ‘Of course, so, shall we?’

All of them made their way towards Luke’s ship. As they boarded, Artoo had guided them to the storage area of the ship, where all of them had placed their luggage and supplies there. Most of them looked around and were a little surprised to see what it looked like on the inside.

‘Whoa,’ said Twilight as she looked inside ‘It’s far different from any ship I have ever seen.’

‘Although,’ said Rarity as she didn’t like the interior design of the place ‘It could use a little more redecorating.’

Spike sat down near a chair as he liked the seats ‘Nice comfy seats though.’

He accidentally activated the table, creating a holographic set of ships, surprising some as they watched. ‘Whoa, what is that?’ said Spike, gaining Luke’s attention as he smiled.

‘Ah,’ said Luke as he walked over and showed them ‘Maz told me about this. This is called “Cruiser Wars”, a strategy game that’s kind of, what do you call them, chess?’

‘Fascinating.’ said Sunburst as he observed the table.

‘It even has pod racing.’

‘Pod racing?’ asked the ponies.

‘Artoo,’ said Luke, gaining the droid’s attention ‘Would you help them set up a holo-net for the previously recorded pod racing games? And uh, show an old one of my father in it.’

Artoo beeped as he moved over and started to work on the holo-net on the table.

‘Now then Princesses,’ said Luke as he looked at Twilight, Celestia and Luna ‘Would you two mind coming along with me? I think you would want to see this.’

The Princesses walked with Luke as they headed towards the cockpit. As they approached the cockpit, Luke sat in the pilot’s seat, with Twilight sitting at the co-pilot seat, whilst Celestia and Luna sat on the passengers’ seats. They saw Luke pressing a few buttons, whilst Twilight was amazed by this. ‘Whoa, what are they?’

‘These happen to be the controls of the ship.’ said Luke as he showed them ‘They help control every part of the ship. Energy, Oxygen, Fuel, and so on. There are many types of ships. Ships like this sometimes require only a handful of people, but when it comes to ships that are bigger than two cities.’

‘There are ships that big?’ asked Luna whilst she was surprised by the discovery.

‘Indeed Princess Luna.’ said Luke as he looked at her ‘Ships that large require almost five hundred crewmembers to keep the ship afloat and flying from one destination to another. Some ships carry enough cargo and passengers from one world to another, as well as delivering supplies to an entire planet. But there are also ships that need enough officers and soldiers to defend it in case of an attack, as well as deploy many soldiers on a planet to garrison on in case of a large planet wide invasion.’

‘Interesting.’ said Celestia ‘I think we should ask Shining Armour to investigate those kinds of ships, I think he might find this interesting.’

‘Shining Armour?’ asked Luke?

‘Shining Armour’s my brother.’ said Twilight as she explained. ‘He used to be Captain of the Guard in Canterlot. But after he got married to Princess Cadance, he became Captain of the Crystal Empire instead.’

‘The Crystal Empire?’

‘An empire that consist of crystal ponies,’ said Celestia ‘A long time ago, an evil unicorn named Sombra tried to take over, but my sister and I stopped him, but in doing so, he cursed the empire, and it disappeared from the face of our world. But it reappeared a thousand years later. And thanks to Twilight and her friends, they were able to restore the empire back to its former glory and banished Sombra from it. Now he is banished in the shadow realms.’

‘I see.’ said Luke ‘So shall we be on our way.’

‘Of course.’ said Celestia as she realized that they need to go on their journey.

Luke activated the ship and primed its engines. As soon it was done, the ship automatically lifted itself up, turned around and flew into the horizon. But from the cockpit, the Princesses were impressed of how fast the ship was flying.

‘This is incredible.’ said Luna as she looked how fast they were flying ‘Truly this ship is a marvel beyond any zeppelin I’ve ever seen.’

‘It is indeed.’ said Luke as he placed the ship on autopilot. ‘We should be arriving at our first destination in an hour.’
‘Wait, that fast?’ said Twilight as she was surprised by its speed.
‘Indeed.’ said Luke as he looked at them. ‘Now then, all of you can join the others if you want. I think you’ll find what Artoo is showing you will be really interesting.’

The three princesses walked to the back to join the others. As they arrived, all of them were fixated on the screen as they watched in awe. For what they were watching, was pod racing, the one his father entered all those years ago. The Princesses were also growing interested, seeing how fast they were, trying to outrace the other. It was truly breathtaking for all of them. Even Pinkie had brought out snacks as all of them were eating popcorn whilst drinking soda as they watched the race.

An hour later, the announcer said ‘From the start of the third to final lap, Sabulba is followed closely by Skywalker!!’, causing every creature to cheer as all of them got excited.

When all of a sudden, Artoo turned it off, surprising them as some gave him the stink eye. ‘Hey, what’s the big idea?’ said Smolder as she wasn’t done watching.

Artoo looked at them and beeped a couple of times, with Luke coming up and said ‘Artoo says we’re here.’

Rainbow Dash was surprised to hear this ‘We’re here, already?’

‘Of course Rainbow Dash,’ said Celestia as she gained Rainbow Dash’s attention ‘Master Skywalker was kind enough to explain that whereas our trains and airships would take us days or a week, the ships where he comes from can travel within a mere hour or so.’

‘Whoa, cool.’ said Sandbar as he was surprised.

‘We’ll leave our things in the ship,’ said Luke ‘We’ll make camp tonight once we try to find what we’re looking for.’

‘Wait,’ said Silverstream ‘You’re not going to use the Force or anything?’

‘I will, but tonight. For now, I’m sure all of you are eager to explore this place after all.’

‘Of course,’ said Starswirl after he took a few unwritten journals with him, as well as a very old journal ‘To explore one of the kingdoms of the pony tribes would be an honor.’

‘Indeed,’ said Stygian ‘The legends had stated that if any unicorn were to set foot on old unicorn grounds, the way would be revealed to them.’

‘Ah just hope we’re allowed to cross over,’ said Applejack ‘Last ah remembered the tribes didn’t exactly see eye to eye.’

‘Not to worry Applejack,’ said Starswirl ‘After Equestria was founded I traveled to the three pony tribe kingdoms to ensure that the spell placed around them will not reject other ponies, thanks to the ones who saw reason.’

‘Then as an expert on the ancient kingdoms of the pony tribes Starswirl,’ said Celestia with a smile whilst she gestured him towards the ramp ‘You shall lead the way.’

‘I would be honored Princess Celestia.’ said Starswirl as he and his fellow pillars lead the way.

The ramp of the Ebon Hawk lowered, Luke and every creature walked out to find what they were looking for. But as they stood on solid ground, they noticed the fog was intensely thick, unable to see anything. But they noticed, it was only thick from where they were standing, but everywhere else was as clear as both day and night.

‘That’s strange,’ said Sunburst as he looked at both the fog and his surroundings ‘There’s only fog in front of us, but not the rest of the land.

‘Do you think the Unicorn Tribe created this?’ said Mage Meadowbrook as she observed it.

‘No way,’ said Rainbow Dash as she looked at it ‘Only the Pegasi can control the weather. The Unicorns can’t control the weather all that well.’

‘What do you mean?’ asked Starlight when she heard Rainbow Dash say that.

‘Put it this way,’ said Spike as he explained ‘When Twilight accidentally swapped her friends’ talents, each of them couldn’t do things right for squat. For one thing, Fluttershy had Pinkie Pie’s talent and she felt scared and humiliated from trying to make others laugh because she doesn’t like being laughed at, Rainbow Dash had Fluttershy’s talent and she nearly got eaten alive, Rarity had Rainbow Dash’s talent and she nearly created the biggest weather disaster known to Pony kind, Applejack had Rarity’s talent and she kept making farmer related fashion instead, and Pinkie Pie had Applejack’s talent and she couldn’t even grow one apple tree.’

The Mane 5 groaned as they were reminded of their humiliated moment. ‘Do you have to bring that up Spike?’ asked Applejack.

Luke, who somehow got interested when he was surprised to hear what happened, decided to ask if they fixed the problem. ‘So if she accidentally swapped their talents, were you able to restore them?’

‘Sure did,’ said Twilight as she smiled, remembering that day ‘After I did, I realized what was wrong with the spell, so I finished it. And in doing so, I ended up ascending to Alicorn hood, gaining the title of Princess.’

‘I see.’ said Luke as he was intrigued ‘And I assume you achieved your destiny soon afterwards.’

‘Honestly,’ said Twilight ‘I was nervous of being a princess at first, but if it weren’t for my friends, I wouldn’t be where I am.’

‘Sounds familiar.’ said Luke as he chuckled, thinking of how his friends were able to help him achieve what he was destined to achieve.

‘So,’ said Ocellus as she took a closer look ‘If the Unicorns didn’t create the fog, who did?’

‘That would be the Pegasi,’ said Starswirl, much to the others’ surprise. ‘After Equestria was founded, I secretly asked Private Pansy and her fellow Pegasi to gather every cloud they could, circled them and covered the entire tribe’s kingdoms so that they would be safe from harm, to preserve our heritage and ensure that if Equestria was one day doomed, we would come here to learn of our mistakes as our ancestors once did, so that we could be better prepared for the future.’

‘So you shielded their kingdoms as a last resort?’ said Luke as he looked at Starswirl.

‘Indeed Master Luke.’ said Starswirl as he stood a few inches towards the fog. ‘Now let’s see if I can disable this spell.

Starswirl focused his magic through his horn and concentrated against the fog. With a great flash from his horn, the thick fog slowly cleared an opening, allowing them to enter inside the thick fog in order to reach their destination.

As they walked through, the fog behind them closed like a door. The moment they were in, most were in awe of what they were seeing, with Starswirl saying ‘Fillies, gentle colts, creatures and visitor. Welcome to old Unicornia.’

To say this place is a marvel would be an understatement. The buildings nearly represent Canterlot in all its glory, as well as many of the unicorn statues that were dedicated to Princess Platinum’s family. Besides the vegetation and vines that grew upon the walls of most of the buildings, they were distracted by the nature inside, the flowers, the animals and the running rivers and ponds.

‘Man, I gotta admit this about the Unicorns,’ said Rainbow Dash as she looked at them ‘They really know how to make a thriving city.’

‘Why thank you Rainbow Dash,’ said Rarity, as if she was still living among the place ‘I have to admit, our unicorn ancestors did great work in creating a peaceful paradise.’

‘Yeah, if it weren't for all of you bickering like foals and the Wendigos showed up.’ said Gallus as he ruined the moment, with Rarity staring coldly at him.

Rarity simply rolled his eyes as she admitted it bluntly, even if she didn’t like being told the truth now and then ‘Well yes, if you want to be so crude about it.’

‘As beautiful of a paradise as this place is,’ said Luke as he looked at the place ‘I am surprised that the ponies never considered visiting their old home once all three tribes made peace.’

‘Indeed,’ said Mistmane ‘But we think that they chose not to come back home, considering that the kingdoms bring too much painful memories of our past.’

‘Sometimes our past is horrible, yes,’ said Luke, knowing the feeling all too well ‘But sometimes the only thing we can do is look to the future and keep moving forward.’

‘Wise words indeed Master Skywalker.’ said Starswirl, as he too admitted into making that same mistake.

‘So where do we look for this there clue to the temple?’ said Applejack.

‘We should start looking around,’ said Flash Magnus ‘See if we can find any clues to the temple itself.’

‘Agreed,’ said Celestia ‘We shall take teams of four to find what we’re looking for faster.’

As planned, they went in separate directions to find their next clue. The Pillars went to the left part of the city, the Mane 6 went to the right part of the city. Spike, Starlight and Sunburst traveled northwest of the city with the Young Six in tow, whilst Celestia and Luna accompanied Luke as they went straight. The Pillars looked through most of the grander buildings, which were once the place of businesses. The Mane 6 looked through what appeared to be the Unicorns’ homes. The Young Six, Sunburst, Starlight and Spike looked at what appeared to be a Park of some kind, whilst Luke, Celestia and Luna continued down the grand street of the city.

As they looked around, Luke, whilst still keeping his focus ahead, asked Celestia ‘May I ask you something?’

‘Of course Luke.’ said Celestia as she responded.

‘Why did the pony tribes hate each other so much?’

‘That is…an uneasy question,’ said Luna ‘But I will answer however I can. If I may sister?’

‘Of course.’ said Celestia as she allowed her sister to tell Luke.

‘To put it simply,’ said Luna as she began ‘The Unicorns are in charge of Equestria’s magic, and once upon a time, they once raised the sun and moon before my sister and I came to be. The Earth Ponies are in charge of growing crops of food to their populace, whilst the Pegasi are in charge of the weather, creating rain, snow, as well as clearing the skies for sunny and moonlight skies.’

‘And I assume from what you told me about their leaders,’ said Luke as he looked at Luna whilst continuing to move on foot, or hoof in this case ‘I assume they didn’t see eye to eye?

‘In a manner of speaking,’ said Luna ‘The Unicorns mostly think they were better than anypony else because they can use magic, the Pegasi boast over them being special because they could control the weather, and the Earth Ponies didn’t like either side.’

‘I assume that the leaders’ second in commands were the only ones who saw sense in all of this?’

‘Indeed,’ said Luna as she acknowledged it ‘They were the only ones who realized what their mistakes were, and thankfully, the leaders sought reason and they eventually made peace thanks to their subordinates.’

‘And what of you two?’ said Luke after crossing what appeared to be a stone bridge ‘How did you two came to be?’

‘My sister and I became Alicorns since we were fillies.’ said Celestia when she felt she too needed to share a tale or two ‘I was able to raise the sun whilst my sister Luna raised the moon. When we encountered Discord, we weren't a match for his chaos magic at first, but after we discovered the Elements of Harmony in the Everfree forest, we used their power to defeat him by turning him to stone.’

‘After his defeat,’ said Luna ‘We built our castle above the Tree of Harmony, the birthplace of the elements themselves, to protect it and soon became the rulers of the land.’

‘But in time you were jealous that the ponies loved your sister’s day instead of your night?’ said Luke whilst remembering that part of the story that she told him.

‘Yes.’ said Luna as she felt ashamed over what she had done in the past.

‘The important thing is that you two are reunited,’ said Luke ‘And you’ve gained new friends along the way.’

Luna smiled, thinking about the times that many ponies tried to help her through her struggles. ‘Yes, I did.’

Shortly they stopped, and saw a large castle up ahead. ‘From the looks of this castle, I assume that this would happen to be the home of Princess Platinum.’

‘Indeed it is.’ said Celestia as she took a glance at the castle.

‘We will need to call forth Princess Twilight and her friends.’ said Luna, realizing that they need to regroup.

‘That will not be necessary’ said Luke as he slowly sat down on his knees, lowered his head and closed his eyes.
The two sisters stood there, watching as Luke kept his position, as if he was focused on something. The groups that were separate continued to search what they hope would be the clue they needed. That was, until each of them suddenly felt something, a presence of sorts. Each of them were surprised at first, then looked at the direction where they felt like a presence was watching them. And out of instinct, they ran towards the direction they felt the presence.

Sure enough, Luke opened his eyes and slowly stood up, with Celestia and Luna looking at him curiously. ‘What did you do?’ asked Luna when she was curious of what Luke was doing.

Luke simply smiled and said ‘Wait for it.’

Sure enough, The Mane 6, the Young Six and the Pillars, along with Spike, Starlight and Sunburst came from out of nowhere from different parts of the streets. Each of them were surprised than the last seeing each other.

‘Whoa,’ said Rainbow Dash when she was the first to see the rest ‘How did you…?’

‘I do not know,’ said Flash Magnus ‘We were busy exploring the Unicorn kingdom…’

‘Right,’ said Sunburst as he agreed ‘We suddenly felt a presence and were drawn towards this part of the city.’

‘How is that possible?’ said Ocellus as she too was surprised.

‘That would be of my doing,’ said Luke, gaining their attention ‘I simply used the Force to call all of you here.’

Many were surprised by the ability Luke has. ‘Whoa,’ said Twilight as she took a few steps forward. ‘How is that possible?’

‘Later,’ said Luke with a smile as he raised his hand to stop her before she could ask any further ‘Before we continue, we should rest up in there.’

Luke pointed at the Castle, much to everyone’s surprise.

‘Whoa,’ said Spike as he also took a few steps forward ‘That’s one amazing castle. And I thought the one in Canterlot, the Crystal Empire and the Castle of the Two Sisters was impressive.’

‘Indeed.’ said Luke. He raised his right hand and aimed it towards the Castle with his eyes closed. He concentrated for some reason. After about twenty seconds of silence, he opened his eyes and lowered his hand. ‘The Force is strong from within the castle.’

‘So we’re on the right track?’ said Twilight as she stood next to Luke.

‘I think so.’ said Luke as he took a few steps forward ‘The Force sometimes comes and goes, like it’s trying to test Force Users in order to help point them in the right direction.’

‘So should we search for the Castle?’ asked Luna.

‘We can try,’ said Luke ‘But if it gets late whilst we’re searching, we should see if there are rooms that we can use for the night.’

‘Luckily I can help with that,’ said Starswirl ‘After Clover the Clever was able to become a royal advisor to Princess Platinum, she was kind enough to show me around the castle. Even the Princess herself wouldn’t dare to deny me access.’

‘Because she respected you as the most powerful wizard?’ asked Pinkie Pie whilst she skipped next to him.

‘No,’ said Starswirl as he said ‘Because the last time I saw her father, the Unicorn King, I turned him into a frog.’

The ponies and creatures turned their heads to Starswirl and looked at him both stunned and surprised, even Luke was a little surprised whilst he looked over his left shoulder and quirking his left eyebrow.

‘What?’ said Starswirl as he shrugged his one shoulder ‘He had the gall to say that both my hat and my robe make me look fat.’

‘I…have no words.’ said Celestia as both she and Luna were surprised by what their former teacher did.

‘We…should probably get inside.’ said Luna, before things had become awkward.

All of them agreed and walked towards the Castle, in order to explore if there really is a secret entrance for the next clue to the temple.

As they went inside, they were greatly impressed by the tapestry and the interior of the designs of the castle was greatly impressed.

‘Amazing,’ said Twilight as she looked at the place ‘So this is what the great halls of the Unicorn castle looked like. I’ve never seen anything like this.’

‘Indeed,’ said Luna as she looked at her sister ‘I wonder why mother and father never told us of the old pony tribes’ homes?’

‘I’m sure they must’ve had their reasons Luna.’ said Celestia whilst wondering the same thing.

They eventually found a hallway that split in three different directions; left, right and straight. ‘We should split up and try to cover more ground.’ said Flash Magnus as he looked at the three different directions.

‘Same team as before?’ asked Mage Meadowbrook whilst she looked around.

‘That would be wise.’ said Somnambula.

All of them to different directions trying to cover more ground. However, Spike suddenly stopped and turned around whilst he saw something with widened eyes. What he saw, was the ghosts of Unicorn King and Princess Platinum, along with Clover the Clever, standing together and staring at three humans in cloaks, shrouding their faces. It looked as if they were speaking to them. The six of them walked in a different direction, with Spike following suit.

Gaining their attention, Luke, Celestia and Luna turned around and saw Spike leaving the group.

‘Spike?’ Celestia asked, with the dragon still walking, prompting them to follow him.

Spike saw the ghosts standing near a wall, with Princess Platinum using her magic to open the door. Sure enough the door opened and they walked through. Spike was surprised by what he saw.

‘Spike?’ said Luna, gaining his attention as he looked at them. ‘Are you alright?’

‘I think I saw something.’ said Spike as he looked at the wall again ‘I think that there’s a secret passage way through here.’

‘Are you sure Spike?’ asked Celestia.

Luke walked over and placed his hand against the wall whilst he closed his eyes. After a few seconds, he opened his eyes as he said ‘He’s right. This wall is hollow. Meaning that there’s a secret passage there.’

‘Yeah,’ said Spike ‘And if I had to guess, it can be opened by Unicorn Magic.’

‘Let me see.’ said Celestia as she stood in front of it.

She closed her eyes and focused her magic whilst she closed her eyes. Sure enough, the wall slowly opened, revealing a secret passage way as the wall was now completely lowered.

‘Amazing,’ said Luna ‘I did not know that they have secret passage ways in this castle.’

‘Kind of reminds me of the ones in Canterlot.’ said Celestia after she opened her eyes ‘Though we tend to have secret passage ways for a reason.’

‘Shall we proceed then your highnesses?’ asked Luke as he gestured the direction they should walk.

‘Indeed.’ said Celestia as she, Luna, Spike and Luke walked into the secret passage.

As they walked through, the passage behind them closed, allowing them to continue with their journey. They walked down the long halls to find what they would be looking for, when all of a sudden, Spike could see the ghosts again.
‘Is something wrong Spike?’ asked Luna as she noticed the way Spike was looking.

‘It’s just,’ said Spike as he tried his best to explain ‘Like before, I saw what looked like ghosts. Three in robes, the first Jedi probably, as well as the Unicorn King, Princess Platinum and Clover the Clever.’

‘The first Jedi must have asked the Unicorn tribes to hide part of their clue of the first Jedi’s Temple.’ said Luke whilst he understood what Spike was saying.

‘But still, why not simply give them the map that leads them straight to the Temple?’ asked Luna.

‘From what Luke described about the Empire,’ said Celestia whilst she remembered Luke’s tale ‘After the Jedi had fallen, the Emperor used the Temple as his own personal office that would give him access to the Jedi Archives, allowing him to find and strip every knowledge of every temple the Jedi had created for future generations.’

‘And if the Emperor were to find the temple here.’ said Luke whilst filling in ‘Who knows what would’ve happened if the Empire were to suddenly invade Equestria. Your world and every creature on it would be sold as slaves, as many other worlds have suffered the same fate.’

‘You make a good point.’ said Luna whilst she shivered a bit, thinking about some of the worlds that have fallen into slavery.

They saw a spiral staircase, which allowed them to take it whilst following the path. After going up a few floors, they were able to reach another doorway. Luke noticed the lever next to it, allowing him to pull it. Once he did, the door slowly opened, allowing them to walk in. As they got through, to their surprise, they were somewhat in another room, no doubt the royal Unicorns’ throne room.

‘This must be the Unicorn King’s throne room.’ said Celestia whilst she looked around.

‘Princess Celestia?’ said a voice, revealing to be Twilight and the rest of her friends, as well as the Pillars and Young Six, who have just recently entered the throne room’s entrance.

‘Whoa, how did you guys get here?’ said Smolder when she saw them.

‘It turned out that there was a secret passage that led straight towards the throne room.’ said Luna as she pointed at the passage they had just come through.

‘I see.’ said Starswirl as he looked at it.

‘Starswirl,’ said Stygian as he stood next to him ‘You’ve known the Unicorn Royal family for as long as any other pony has. How is it possible that they have created secret passageways without any of the Unicorn scholars’ knowledge?’

‘The Unicorn royal family tend to keep things to themselves.’ said Starswirl after he was done inspecting the passage way. ‘Remember, they had hatred towards the other pony tribes and they were afraid that if either chose to wage war, they created passage ways to escape from just in case.’

‘But what happened afterwards?’

‘That, Stygian, is a mystery for another day.’

‘Indeed,’ said Celestia ‘It is getting late, so I shall set the sun and we shall need to rest for the night.’

‘Then it’s a good thing that we brought some supplies and left it at the ship,’ said Spike with a smile ‘I saw this palace has a kitchen, so I’ll get started with the cooking.’

‘Oh, ah’ll help you,’ said the smiling Mage Meadowbrook ‘It’s been a while since I also cooked.’

‘Aye,’ said Rockhoof as he remembered ‘I still remembered that you once cooked for me and Stygian when we recruited you to help us fight the Sirens.’

‘Oh, I’ll help too.’ said Twilight as she volunteered. As soon as Spike and Mage gathered near her, Twilight teleported themselves back to the ship.

Luke was impressed as he chuckled whilst he said ‘Interesting technique.’

‘Princess Twilight makes a habit of doing this.’ said Luna.

Within a split second, Twilight teleported to them and told them ‘I already teleported Spike and Meadowbrook to the kitchen, so they’ll be able to finish up in half an hour.’

‘Good,’ said Luke whilst he also spotted a balcony outside ‘All of you go on ahead and get settled, I must meditate.’

As Luke left, the ponies watched him head for the balcony. ‘Man, for a guy who’s supposed to be a master, he sure does a lot of meditating.’ said Rainbow Dash.

‘Well he has to Rainbow,’ said Twilight ‘How else can he consult with the Force?’

‘Still, wonder how it works though?’ asked Ocellus.

‘Maybe we can ask master tonight?’ said Yona.

‘Sure, after dinner of course.’ said Pinkie, when all of a sudden, she pulled out a campfire and over fifty bags of marshmallows whilst she shouted ‘And maybe some smores!!’

Sure enough, thanks to Celestia, the sun had been set and Luna raised the moon, and everypony was lucky enough to find rooms, as well as blankets thanks to Rarity’s expertise. Though she wanted to call dibs on the royal rooms, she decided to let Celestia and Luna claim those rooms. At the same time, Spike, Mage Meadowbrook and Twilight brought in the food so that all of them could dine with what they have made. Luke sat outside whilst he was still meditating, until he felt a gentle push on his right shoulder. He looked and saw Ocellus.

‘Excuse me, Master Skywalker?’ said Ocellus ‘Spike and Mage Meadowbrook were able to cook the food, you’re welcome to join us.’

‘Thank you Ocellus.’ said Luke as he stood up and joined them.

Soon enough, after they were done dining, Rainbow Dash asked ‘You sure do a lot of meditating.’

‘Sometimes the path of the Jedi must remain on the path to light,’ said Luke after he placed his empty bowl aside ‘If we stray from the path, we doom ourselves in the darkness.’

‘And the Force,’ said Somnambula as whilst she wondered about something ‘What else can you do, besides lifting objects and for combat?’

‘Sometimes we use the Force to jump to higher platforms,’ said Luke as he tried to think of something else ‘The Jedi can also use them to see the future.’

‘Wait, see the future?’ asked Ocellus.

‘Yes, when a Jedi meditates, they tend to tap into the visions of the Force, allowing them to see the future, but one must learn to control those emotions, otherwise it would not work.’

‘So if you guys could see the future,’ said Spike after he was done dishing up for Celestia and Luna, whilst walking over to them to give them their food ‘How come you couldn’t see the future of where the Jedi would be wiped out?’

‘Kenobi and Yoda once told me that whilst the Dark Side grew, it clouded their vision, blocking them from seeing the future.’
‘That would make sense,’ said Celestia ‘If one would block one’s vision of seeing the future, then their enemies would gain an advantage over their adversaries and their enemies.’

‘I’m curious of how the force works.’ said Sunburst, wondering of how this works.

‘Let me show you then.’ said Luke, taking them by surprise.

‘Whoa, you can do that?’ asked Smolder.

‘Indeed.’ said Luke as he sat down with his legs crossed and placed his hands on his knees. ‘All of you gather in a circle, close your eyes and I’ll show you.’

Sure enough, all of them did. They all sat in a circle with Luke, slowly lowered their heads and closed their eyes.

‘Concentrate. Clear your thoughts of any distraction. Breathe.’ said Luke to them.

All of them cleared their thoughts of any distractions. They slowly began to take deep and calming breaths whilst trying to clear their thoughts from any distractions. Though Pinkie nearly wanted to giggle, Twilight had to remind her that she should at least restrain herself for just a few minutes, or in this case, an hour.

‘The Force surrounds all of us, it allows us to feel anything out there,’ said Luke whilst keeping his eyes closed ‘It surrounds all living things, like they are part of us, from the ground we walk to the air we fly or the path we follow and allow to guide us.’

They continued to keep their eyes closed, not wanting to make a single noise. Luke spoke to them as he wanted to make sure that all of them could feel what he feels. He noticed the Force had flowed through them, which made him smile, knowing he was on the right path.

‘Feel the water as it flows down the river.’

Sure enough, they could feel every drop of water from any part of the river. More importantly, they can also feel it from the ocean.

‘Feel the wind as it blows in the direction it wants to go.’

They could feel the wind and noticed how they were blowing in what direction it wanted to go.

‘Feel the creatures as they move on the ground and fly in the air.’

They could feel the tamed, wild and ferocious animals that wander throughout the world, doing what they were meant to do.
‘And most importantly…feel the life of every bit of civilization around you.’

Sure enough, to their surprise, they could feel every creature throughout Equestria and beyond. They could sense the Ponies, Griffons, Hippogriffs, Yaks, Dragons, Changelings, Kirin, Minotaurs and every kind of creature throughout all of Equestria. All of them were amazed that they could feel so many out there.

Sure enough, they opened their eyes sharply as they were taken by surprise. ‘This, is, amazing.’ said Starlight as she was taken by surprise.

‘Ah…ah could feel them, every creature and pony from all over Equestria.’

Celestia walked over to Luke as all of them were able to stand up as she said ‘This is truly a great gift the Force has granted you. If you would wish, we would like to learn more about this.’

‘I would be honored to teach you Princess Celestia.’ said Luke whilst he bowed.

However, Luke suddenly turned his head to the thrones, as if something had called out to him. Not just him though, surprisingly everypony and creature turned their head towards it, which held partial surprise looks to their faces.
‘Uh, you guys feel that too, right?’ said Smolder.

‘In a way, yeah.’ said Gallus.

Luke walked over to the thrones and did a thorough inspection whilst the others walked on over to see what he was doing. Luke noticed something as he watched the thrones. He found what appeared to be a button underneath the right armrest. He pressed the button, causing the ground underneath the thrones to rumble.

The ground from which the thrones were standing on suddenly split themselves in two, revealing a passage way going underground. ‘So the passages were hidden under the thrones?’ said Mistmane when she got a good look at it.

‘It would seem so,’ said Stygian, who then turned to Starswirl ‘I do not understand though, I thought that there would be no more secrets ever since the kingdoms united and formed Equestria.’

‘Perhaps the First Jedi asked them to keep it a secret since they first came to this world.’ said Luke whilst he observed the entrance.

‘Then let us make haste.’ said Luna before all of them entered underground.

Following like last time, they used the lanterns to lit their path towards the passage way. The next part was a trap that was the same as last time, but this time they learnt well, and Twilight was the one who volunteered to go and used her shield to shield herself towards the other side to shut it all down.

Soon after that, they were able to reach the next door, with them sensing another dark presence in there. But it felt like two individuals in there, implying that there were two instead of one. Slowly they opened the door, whilst also taking a peek inside.

‘I don’t see anybody.’ said Rockhoof as he was the first to take a peek.

‘That’s because these fellers don’t reveal themselves until the time is right and all.’ said Applejack as she poked her head in next.

‘We’d better be careful,’ said Yona as she also took a peek ‘Yona no like spooky place like this.’

‘Hey, at least this one’s not on fire.’ said Sandbar, remembering the time he and his friends were going through a haunted house on Nightmare Night set up by the Mane 6, until a few mishaps happened that they didn’t want to remember.

‘Let me lead the way.’ said Luke as he volunteered to go first.

As he walked through, he slowly looked around, not knowing what he might expect. At first it was going to be another stone guardian trap, but instead, the darkness kept growing stronger and stronger with every step he took. He stood at the center, whilst still observing his surroundings. But the moment Twilight and the others could see his face, Luke, out of instinct, jumped away and landed on both his feet, trying to see who’s responsible.

He saw two figures approaching from the darkness. One was a man, wearing a black cloak and hood over his face, whilst wearing a strange kind of mask, the other, was a man in red/yellow outfit, as well as wearing a black hood as well, but his mouth was covered by something metallic, whilst he had blue markings over his eyes. They stood at the center of the place, with Luke recognizing them. They were none other than Revan and Malak, the two fallen Jedi, who led their part of the Jedi and the Republic against the Mandalorians during the Mandalorian Wars, and responsible for the destruction of the Jedi during the Jedi Civil War, as well as paved the way for three of the galaxy’s most evilest Sith Lords.

‘Who are those two?’ asked Smolder.

‘Uh, Smolder?’ said Silverstream, gaining her dragon friend’s attention ‘Maybe we should ask him after those two are gone?’

‘Strange,’ said Luna as she looked at them. ‘The one with the blue marks over his eyes, I can sense evil from him. But the one in the mask. I can sense both light and dark in that one.’

Luke took a deep breath and pulled out his Lightsaber, whilst both Revan and Malak pulled out theirs. Spike called out ‘Uh, Luke, do you happen to know how to use two Lightsabers, don’t you?’

Luke looked at him with a flexed eyebrow and asked ‘Why?’

Spike tossed him a pair of Lightsabers, which Luke was able to catch. When Luke looked at it, he saw that it was the same Lightsaber that the ghost of Ajunta had. Luke looked at him as Spike said ‘Figured you might need them just in case.’

‘Spike.’ said Twilight as she scolded him ‘You took those without permission.’

‘It’s alright,’ said Luke as they looked at him and noticed he was smiling ‘When this is over, I’m gonna find him a large gem.’

Spike couldn’t help but smile at Luke’s offer.

Luke placed his Lightsaber away and used Ajunta’s instead, by connecting them together and turned it into a double bladed Lightsaber. He stood in position, preparing to strike. Luke slowly took a few steps forward, as did both Revan and Malak. Revan prepared to use his Form 6 maneuver, otherwise known as the Nimian, with Malak doing the same.

Luke made his move and twirled his makeshift double bladed Lightsaber, with Revan jumping over whilst trying to strike from above, but as Luke twirled his Lightsaber, he also blocked it at the same time. Sure enough, both Revan and Malak attacked him from both sides. Revan and Malak continued to strike on both sides, but Luke used his Lightsaber to block both of their attacks whilst they tried to get around him at the same time.

‘Man, look at him go.’ said Sandbar.

‘And I thought Luke was impressive when he fought with only one Lightsaber.’ said Flash Magnus whilst he was amazed the way Luke moved.

Both Revan and Malak continued to fight Luke, trying to gain an advantage, but thanks to Yoda’s training, Luke was able to move around them like water. As Revan tried to strike, Luke kicked Malak in the face, making him collapse on the ground.

Luke jumped like an acrobat to his left and used the Force to throw a rock towards Revan, but he easily sliced it in two. Revan continued to fight Luke until Malak joined in and continued the duel between the last Jedi and the Lords of Sith of old.
As they fought, Luke kicked Revan aside as he slid on the ground, with Luke jumping a bit backwards trying to dodge Malak. Luke stood in position and held his position whilst Malak attacked once more. Malak continued to strike left and right, but Luke successfully blocked them from both sides and pushed him away, whilst Revan came back into the fight as the two Sith Lords continued their duel. Malak and Revan tried to get past him, but it wasn’t enough to make Luke lose his defense. As Revan tried to strike, Luke used the Force to push him away, flinging him against the wall.

Malak backhanded Luke, making him fall on his back. Malak tried to strike Luke down, but Luke was quick on his feet and lifted himself up and landed on his feet, with Luke trying to strike back as Malak also blocked him from left to right. As they fought, Malak ended up standing up kicking Luke in the gut, but Luke was able to overcome it and jump further down, with Malak following suit. The two of them continued to clash their sabers, until Malak sliced the makeshift double bladed Lightsaber in half, separating it in the process. Malak grabbed it, but Luke was able to overpower him and throw him against the wall, with Luke jumping towards him.

As Malak crashed against the wall, Luke jabbed both Lightsabers in Malak’s gut, making him grunt in the process, killing him as the pain was too much for him. Luke pulled the Lightsabers out and landed back onto the ground, with Malak falling flat on his stomach, with the ponies surprised when they saw Luke being able to overpower Malak. Luke turned around and saw Revan slowly standing up, with smaller rocks rising all around him, showing that his power of the Dark Side is growing stronger by the minute. He pulls out his Lightsaber, ready for another go on Luke, with Luke preparing for a fight himself.

As they slowly walked around in a circle, Luke and Revan kept their focus on one another. In an attempt to reach out to him, Luke tried to speak to Revan.

‘I know who you are Revan,’ said Luke ‘I know you were never a Sith.’

‘You know nothing of me.’ responded Revan, maintaining his anger.

‘I know you were once an honorable Jedi,’ said Luke, remembering Master Yoda’s stories. ‘I know you and Malak were once the most compassionate Jedi who cared for the people of the Republic. When the worlds were threatened by the Mandalorians and the Jedi refused to act, you two brought what Jedi you could and led the Republic against their clans. But by the time power consumed the both of you, the two of you ended up leading a Jedi Civil War, turning Jedi against Jedi, and led the destruction of the Order whilst the survivors were forced into hiding, and the two of you turned into Sith Lords. That was until Bastilla, a powerful Battle master, captured you and altered your identity so that you wouldn’t remember who you were, erasing your past of who you once were.’

Many were surprised to hear of Revan’s origins. ‘Whoa, is he serious?’ asked Rainbow Dash whilst she was surprised.

‘From the sound of his voice, ah reckon he is.’ said Applejack whilst she was fixated on the battle.

Luke continued to speak as he said ‘But overtime in your altered state, you formed companions and friends to fight for the greater good of the Republic. You fought the Sith through different parts of the galaxy, and in time, Malak, one who thought you were dead, made you remember who you are. But instead of going back to your Sith ways, you continued to follow the path of the Jedi, saved the love of your life and aided the Republic in defeating Malak and the Sith. But as you regained more of your memories, you remembered that there was a far greater danger out there, so you left the galaxy to face down the danger and never returned. But in time, you were reincarnated and tried to make good for the galaxy. After that, you died and you became a legend ever since.’

‘I do not remember that life,’ said Revan ‘All I remember was that the Jedi were weak. Where were they as the innocence suffered whilst the Mandalorians laid waste to innocent worlds. I did what I had to do to defend them. And when that wasn’t enough, only power would make sure that all of them would stand in line.’

‘That is not true,’ said Luke ‘You formed a lot of companions over the years. Do you not remember who they were? Bastilla Shan was among them. But who were the others?’

Revan stopped in an instant, for that brief moment that the light inside of him woke up. He told them who they were and what they were.

‘Carth Onasi. He was a valiant soldier for the Republic. He led his troops with honor and strife. He even reunited with his son after he thought he died during great battle. Then there is Canderous Ordo, a great Mandalorian warrior from Clan Ordo, who united the other clans to fight against the Sith and restore his clan’s honor.’

They were surprised that Revan remembered the first two, but continued to tell Luke who the others were.

‘Then there’s Jolee Bindo, an old hermit who became a grey Jedi after his emotions got the better of him when his wife died. He was an old grump, but he had a kind heart. Then there’s Mission Vao, a Twilek who had been abandoned by her brother and left for dead. But after she came along, she found her purpose in helping the Republic, alongside Zalbaar, a Wookie from Kashyyk who reclaimed his honor and helped free his home from slavers.’

Pretty soon, Revan slowly lowered his guard, as did Luke with Revan continuing talking about his companions.

‘Then there’s Juhani, a Jedi Padawan who was consumed by the Dark Side when she struck down her master, but I was able to help redeem herself from her pain and darkness, I even let her accompany me so that she could find her light. Then there’s HK-47, a robotic droid who was designed by the Sith to fight alongside me, but found a new purpose in fighting for the Republic. Then finally, T3. I missed it so much since he was gone. Always being there by my side and always helped us overcome our problems no matter what stood in its way.’

Revan then removed his hood and slowly removed his mask, revealing his face. A normal human, but with normal eye colors, and no longer yellow like the Sith’s. He couldn’t help but chuckle as he said ‘They never did stop believing in me.’

‘Neither did my friends.’ said Luke as he had a smile of his own.

Revan couldn’t help but smile. He walked over to Luke and used the Force to take Malak’s Lightsaber before he faded from existence. Revan stood close to Luke as he held onto both the Lightsabers and his mask.

‘Very well done.’ said Revan as he gave his mask and Lightsabers to Luke. Smiling with relief, Luke accepted the Lightsabers and mask, with Revan placing his right hand on Luke’s shoulder. ‘You truly are the best of us. No go…restore the balance to the Force, as the chosen of the Jedi of old did before.’

Within moments, Revan disappeared, now finally resting in peace. Luke only smiled whilst he held onto the new momentums in his hands. The ponies and Spike, along with the Young Six moved closer towards him whilst some of them were amazed by what happened.

‘That was amazing.’ said Mage Meadowbrook.

‘How did you calm him down?’ asked Fluttershy.

‘I reached out to him, as many Jedi do to those who fell to the Dark Side.’ said Luke.

‘If you don’t mind me asking Master Skywalker,’ said Princess Celestia whilst she was curious ‘Who exactly were Revan and Malak? Were they well known in the Jedi Order?’

‘In a way they are.’ said Luke.

‘From what your master told you?’ asked Luna.

‘Let us continue with our goal,’ said Luke as he gestured to the door ‘I will explain along the way.’

As Luke led them to their destination, realizing that it was another long hallway, he told them of what he knew about them.

‘Long ago, after the Great Sith War,’ said Luke ‘The Mandalorians were an ongoing warrior race who were always at war with each other and everybody else. They had enemies everywhere. The Republic, the Jedi Order, the Empire and the Sith, all who fought the Mandalorians to a standstill. Realizing that the Republic was in danger, Revan and Malak urged the Jedi Order to help the Republic put an end to the war, but they refused.’

‘Refused?’ said Rarity whilst she was surprised ‘Why in Equestria would they refuse to help the Republic?’

‘Remember,’ said Luke ‘The temptation of the Dark Side can exist in anyone, and the Jedi, fearing that their Order would suffer the same fate as their predecessors during the Great Sith War, they chose to stay out of it. Revan and Malak on the other hand, both of the Jedi Knights, refused to sit aside and allow the innocence of every world to suffer. They eventually gained the aid of half of the Jedi Order and fought with the Republic Fleet and armies on the front lines. Sure enough, the Mandalorians surrendered, only to discover that they were secretly led by a Sith Emperor.’

‘Let me guess,’ said Rainbow Dash as she was boasting ‘They went over and kicked their butts?’

‘Not exactly,’ said Luke, much to Dash’s disappointment ‘When they confronted him, the Sith Emperor corrupted them, and in time, they were succumbed to the Dark Side, and soon after that, the Jedi they gathered also fell to Darkness, and ended up leading a Jedi Civil War.’

‘Jedi vs. Jedi?’ said Flash Magnus ‘And I assume that both sides lost?’

‘In a way,’ said Luke ‘After they were corrupted, they searched all over the galaxy for a powerful Force Weapon known as the Star Forge. But Bastilla, a Battle Master sent by the Jedi Order and secretly led a Jedi Task Force, were sent to capture Revan when they realized that there was still good in him. But during that time whilst his mind was being wiped by the Force, the remaining Jedi that served alongside Revan and Malak after they were freed from their corruption, were exiled and banished from the Jedi Order, and they were forced to both surrender their Lightsabers and cut their connections from the Force.’

‘But weren’t they given a chance to redeem themselves?’ asked Mistmane.

‘No,’ said Luke ‘The Masters from back then were clouded and blinded by arrogance. Because of that, they refused to act and wanted to leave the galaxy would die, for fear of the Dark Side clouded their judgment of helping and saving others.’
‘So what happened to Revan after he was captured?’ asked Spike.

‘Revan was given a new identity and a different life, with his connection to the Force being cut. But Malak knew Revan was still alive and he never stopped hunting him, for the dark Jedi that were still loyal to him, as well as a handful of Sith, continued to hunt him mercilessly. Whilst he was unconscious on a Republic Cruiser ship filled with Republic soldiers that Bastilla and her Task Force Jedi were on, Malak discovered their location and he sent a Sith Frigate filled with Dark Jedi to kill him when his location was discovered.’

‘So how did they escape?’ said Rainbow Dash, clearly showing a hint of excitement on her face.

‘Both Carth and T3 woke him up,’ said Luke ‘They were able to escape, with Bastilla still fighting them, but many of her Task Force Jedi, even the Republic soldiers were all killed during the raid. They were able to evacuate in an escape pod on a planet below them. But whilst they were on the surface, Revan’s fighting ability, minus the Force, slowly came back. His instincts were sharper and his care for his newfound companions helped strengthen his resolve. They had to undergo many trails to help set him on the right path. Soon enough, they were able to free Bastilla when she was captured.’
‘How did they ever escape the planet?’ asked Rarity, seeing that she too was interested in the story.

‘They were able to gain an audience with a powerful crime lord, where they met Canderous Ordo, a Mandalorian warrior who was reduced to being a bouncer after his clan had been broken apart. With his help, they were able to escape the planet aboard the Ebon Hawk…’

‘Wait,’ said Sunburst as he realized something ‘You said the ship that Revan traveled in is called the Ebon Hawk?’

‘Yeah, why?’ asked Luke.

‘And what’s your ship called?’ asked Starlight.

‘The Ebon Hawk.’

Twilight then asked ‘And how long ago did Revan live?’

‘About three thousand years ago.’

Some were taken aback by what he said, with Spike shouting ‘Your ship’s that old?!!’

‘Maz discovered the ship.’ said Luke ‘She said that the ship had been abandoned and also in partial ruin. But she was somehow able to put it back together and made it better than ever.’

‘Is she some sort collector?’ asked Rarity.

‘Sort of,’ said Luke ‘Maz was once a pirate, and she’s nearly as old as Master Yoda. She saw a lot of action and is considered to be among the best. She even helped the Rebellion more times than I can count. She even helped me try to find a way. She may not be a Jedi, but she knew the Force.’

‘Interesting,’ said Celestia. ‘Would you like to continue Revan’s story.’

‘Of course.’ said Luke. He cleared his throat before he continued ‘After they escaped, they went back to the Jedi Temple on Dantooine. Coruscant and Tython may have been the base and home of the Jedi for centuries, but wherever the Force reaches out, there are always more temples to test those who are worthy to walk the path of light. From there, Revan continued his Jedi training, and became a Jedi Sentinel, Jedi who are focused on both the Force and their Lightsaber combat. The Jedi Order assigned him to find the location of the Star Forge.’

‘The weapon that y’all wanted to find from the beginning?’ asked Applejack.

‘Indeed.’ said Luke ‘Whilst he traveled, he gained the trust of the Grey Jedi Jolee and during his journey into discovering the location of the Star Forge, Revan helped his companion through their troubled times, helped them focus on the future, and became better people. But during their travels, they encountered Malak, who revealed Revan’s identity and helped him refresh his memory. During that time, Revan remembered bits and pieces of his old life. But instead of returning to the Dark Side, he stayed with the Light, revealing that his will was stronger when resisting against the Darkness.’

‘Were they able to defeat Malak?’ asked Luna.

‘Yes,’ said Luke ‘After they discovered the location of the Star Forge, the Republic sent their fleets to destroy it whilst Revan fought Malak. It was a horrific battle, but in the end, the Republic won and Revan struck Malak down. But with the Jedi Temple on Dantooine destroyed, the Jedi were once again forced to go into hiding.’

‘And what of Revan?’ asked Starswirl ‘What became of him?’

‘After Malak’s defeat, Revan regained more of his memory, and discovered that there was a far more greater evil that proved to be more dangerous than anyone could’ve imagined. So he asked his companions to stay behind and help protect the Republic, whilst he went off alone, never to be seen again.’

‘Wow, that’s some story.’ said Smolder.

‘Right,’ said Luke ‘It was thanks to both Revan and the Exile, the Jedi would be on better terms with the galaxy and brought a new age.’

‘The exile?’ asked Celestia.

‘Another time,’ said Luke ‘For now, our prize is up ahead.’

They continued to walk down the hall until they were finally able to reach their destination. Finally, they were able to reach their destination. The layout was the same as the previous tomb they’ve been before. But instead of being surrounded by books, they were surrounded by melee weapons, from every civilization since their beginnings.
Rockhoof investigated the axe near him as he said ‘Amazing.’

‘Are these…?’ asked Flash Magnus as he looked at one of the shields that caught his eye.

‘Weapons from other worlds since the youth of their civilizations.’ said Luke whilst he looked around.

‘Aw, no books?’ asked Twilight as she felt disappointed and sad at the same time.

‘Do not easily discard what you see before you, Twilight Sparkle,’ said Luke ‘Knowledge and history can come from all appearances, shapes and sizes, no matter how worthless it may seem to others.’

‘Indeed,’ said Luna ‘Every bit of history is important.’

Luke went to the coffin and opened it. He saw another mummified Jedi, and noticed he had a different double bladed Lightsaber, differently designed with markings, as well it had the color yellow when he turned it on, then turned it off whilst he placed it on the back of his belt.

Luke found another cylinder that contained their next clue. He opened the cylinder and the scroll whilst looking through its contents.

‘What does it say?’ asked Yona.

‘It says right here,’ said Luke whilst he told them ‘After the Pony Tribes left their homes, the first Jedi went to their abandoned homes and hid clues to where the Jedi Texts should be. We know that they placed it here, in the home of the Unicorn Tribe. The scroll says here they placed the next clue in a spot where ponies ruled the clouds and the skies.’

‘Old Pegasopolis.’ said Rainbow Dash as she remembered ‘That’s where the Pegasi used to rule before they moved.’

‘Ah, I know the place,’ said Flash Magnus next ‘That’s nearby where my old Legion comrades had a base before they disbanded it.’

‘But how are we going to land there?’ asked Somnambula ‘Old Pegasopolis doesn’t have solid ground.’

‘Actually they do,’ said Rainbow Dash ‘If it’s anything like the Wonderbolts’ Academy, the clouds should surround a large mountain up top, enough for Pegasi to have solid ground in case their magic would fail.’

‘Ugh, don’t remind Yona,’ said Yona whilst she suddenly had chills up her spine ‘Yona not got over what happened last time Yona was on clouds.’

‘Uh, you do realize that it was both Cozy Glow and Tirek’s fault that magic all over Equestria was drained, right?’ said Gallus.

‘Yeah,’ said Smolder ‘And that idiot chancellor thought we were to blame. I mean, come on, do we look like creatures that can drain magic. None of our races could do that for like, ever.’

‘But I assume that this Tirek you mentioned, has the ability to do that?’ asked Luke.

‘He’s the only one as far as ah know.’ said Applejack.

‘Indeed,’ said Starswirl as he remembered the history well ‘Only Tirek’s kind has the ability to do that, but they abandoned the Dark Arts long ago.’

‘Then we’ll head to Pegasopolis first thing in the morning.’ said Luna ‘When all of us have the strength for the day to come.’
Everyone agreed and walked out of the tomb. But as Luke exited last, he heard a voice say ‘Stay on the path, Skywalker.’
He turned around and could’ve sworn he heard Yoda’s voice. He shook his head and walked out of the room, not wanting to disturb the dead any further. All he knows is, that the Force is guiding him closer to his goal, for he could feel it as he sensed it was getting stronger.

Chapter 7: The Forgotten Kingdom of the Pegasi

Author's Notes:

Sorry it took so long, tried to work as fast as I could. But here it is.

Sure enough, right around 9 AM, the Ebon Hawk flew high in the skies, flying past the largest clouds. As they flew over most of the mountains, Luke looked to the others whilst Artoo flew the ship for him. ‘So after Equestria had been founded,’ asked Luke ‘Did anyone ever bothered to return to their homelands?’

‘They had,’ said Starswirl, seeing that his old pupil Clover filled him in ‘But after they founded the kingdom, Princess Platinum and Clover, Commander Hurricane and Private Pansy, as well as Chancellor Pudding head and Secretary Smart Cookie returned to their homes and told their kingdoms that they were responsible for the Windigos plaguing their lands, and told them that by working together can all of them overcome their differences and build a better future together.’

‘And soon after that, all of them left their kingdoms and came to Equestria,’ said Stygian, seeing that Starswirl told him about the story ‘Ever since then, no one’s bothered to set a hoof there again.’

‘Indeed,’ said Mistmane ‘To be setting foot back onto our ancestral homes felt, in a way, invigorating.’

‘Still,’ said Flash Magnus ‘I wonder what it would be like, to set foot on the Pegasi’s old kingdom?’

‘Same here,’ said Rainbow Dash ‘If we’re able to map this place, I’d glad to bring Scootaloo and the Wonderbolts here.’
‘You really think they’ll be interested?’ asked Applejack.

‘Why not,’ said Rainbow Dash ‘They got excited for the Ponyville Annual Friendship Festival.’

‘A friendship festival?’ asked Luke.

‘Yes,’ said Celestia ‘To celebrate the friendships we made to those who have touched our hearts.’

‘Although we had to make a new one in Ponyville a month later ever since the Storm King invaded our kingdom.’ said Luna, not liking to remember that part of the past.

‘I see,’ said Luke ‘And what happened after he invaded?’

‘Well, after the Princesses were captured,’ said Spike, seeing that he was there ‘Twilight, her friends and I traveled to Mount Aris to seek help from the Hippogriffs. But the more we traveled there, the more impatient she got.’

‘Not to mention she tried to steal their pearl because she used her own friends rather than letting things work out.’ said Silverstream, earning a glare from Twilight. ‘What? My aunt Novo and cousin Skystar told me what happened.’

‘Yeah,’ said Applejack ‘And if we all remember, y’all were impatient and botched up our chances to seek help.’
‘I said I was sorry.’ said Twilight.

‘That is unfortunate.’ said Luke.

‘What, unfortunate that I betrayed my friends’ trusts and nearly caused a diplomatic incident?’ said Twilight when she was slightly mad.

‘No,’ said Luke as he turned around and looked at her, making all of them all stop as Luke said ‘Unfortunate that you kept rushing into things without thinking things through. That you didn’t trust your friends to help you when you faced every threat together. That you lacked the training to be the princess others wanted you to be. And that you weren't ready for the burden that was given to you.’

They were a bit surprised of how thorough he was, even Celestia, Luna and Twilight. Luke continued as he said ‘Celestia might have good intensions of making you a princess, but others would think a child would make such a decision.’
Celestia felt offended by what he said ‘Excuse me?’

‘I mean no disrespect Celestia,’ said Luke as he looked at her ‘But even the wisest of masters would clearly see that she wasn’t ready to be one. From what the Force revealed to me through my meditations, she is impatient, she is reckless, she is sometimes hot tempered, and she didn’t trust her friends enough to let them take part of her burden with them.’

‘He is speaking the truth,’ said Starswirl as he stroked his beard ‘Princess Twilight’s heart may have been in the right place, but it was clear that she did not realize that in releasing us, she unintentionally freed the pony of shadows. And from what you told me Celestia, she tried to face Nightmare Moon, Discord and Tirek alone, even nearly destroyed our world’s timeline when she and Starlight traveled through time without her realizing the consequences of her actions. And she didn’t have any evidence when Chrysalis was disguised as your niece.’

Twilight felt slightly discouraged, but Luke said to her ‘Remember, when I first started out, I was also reckless. I wasn’t ready to face my father, but I let my emotions get the better of me when my friends were endangered. I ended up losing my hand, got hurt real badly, and I ended up nearly getting myself killed. Master Yoda reminded me that my training was incomplete and I wasn’t ready. But the moment when I had to face what both Yoda and Kenobi wanted me to face, I became a Jedi in the end, and realized that I couldn’t have gone far without the teachings both my masters and my friends have given me. I wouldn’t have gotten anywhere if they hadn’t taught me what I needed to do.’

Luke stood on one knee as he looked directly at her. ‘I know you do these things to please others, but as Cadance once said, you may have an obligation as a Princess, but you also have an obligation to yourself. You need to rely on your friends more often for help and you often need to train and be better prepared to face what challenges may come at you.’

Luke placed his hand on Twilight’s shoulder as he said ‘And if you want, I can teach you what you need to do.’

As Luke stood up and walked on ahead, Twilight couldn’t help but be surprised of how he knew so much. She instantly ran over and walked next to him with the others following and asked ‘How did you know so much about me?’

‘When I was meditating,’ said Luke ‘I communicated with the Force, and your kind, the ponies of the past, told me everything what all of you have been through.’

‘Everything?’ said Fluttershy.

‘Yes.’ said Luke. He then looked at Applejack and said ‘By the way, there was one pony, the father of your grandmother, told me to tell you that he’s proud of the traditions you carry for your family, and said that he has never saw a true Apple that did her family name proud. And your parents said the same.’

Applejack was surprised by what he said, but in a way, she couldn’t help but smile and feel a sense of pride herself. For if her great grandfather and her parents told Luke to tell her that, she ended up lowering her hat and shed a small tear whilst smiling underneath her father’s hat.

‘You can communicate with the ponies who have long passed?’ asked Luna whilst she was surprised by what he said.
‘My Master once told me that all life does not cease in death, but are merely living on by changing its form in the Force.’ said Luke. ‘For example, Applejack’s parents will always be alive inside her, and will be with her till the end of her days until it is her time to pass on and be one with the Force. Or in this case, be one with magic.’

They continued to walk down the stoned path as Luke continued. ‘My Master once told me that Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Master, Qui-Gon Jinn had learned the secret of immortality, and can communicate from the netherworld of the Force. When Kenobi became one with the Force, he called to me and told me to go to Dagobah and find Yoda, tried to warn me of not facing my father, and told me of what happened to him, even telling me about Leia. Even though they may be gone, they never stopped trying to help me.’

‘Wow,’ said Rainbow Dash with a quirked eyebrow as she hovered next to him ‘This “Force” stuff is really complicated.’
Luke couldn’t help but chuckle as he said ‘You get used to it.’

Sure enough, they arrived at Old Pegasopolis, only there was not much left, save a handful of old cloud homes as well as the palace headquarters of Commander Hurricane.

‘Wow,’ said Spike as he was a bit deadpanned by the scenery ‘The Pegasi’s old homeland sure has seen better days.’

‘Indeed,’ said Stygian ‘I had not seen devastation like this since my hometown.’

‘Hmm,’ said Smolder as she was thinking. ‘From what Dragon Lord Ember told me, her grandfather, before her father became the next Dragon Lord, came here and raided whatever treasures they could find of the old Pegasi homelands.’

‘As the old pony saying goes,’ said Sandbar ‘ “Time is a cruel mistress”. ‘

‘Uh, don’t let her hear you say that.’ said Applejack, considering what happened since she and her friends tried to stop a certain time controlling Alicorn that nearly destroyed Equestria.

‘Any idea of how we should proceed?’ asked Luke

Twilight walked next to him and said ‘We should see if the records room are still available,’ said Twilight as she pointed at the Pegasopolis headquarters ‘They may have a clue about where the First Jedi hid their secrets.’

‘Very well,’ said Luke ‘For those who cannot fly, we’ll remain here. Those who can are more than welcome to take a look.’
‘Are you sure Master Skywalker?’ asked Luna.

‘I am sure your highness.’ said Luke ‘I wouldn’t mind to keep the others company.’

‘Of course darling.’ said Rarity ‘I wouldn’t mind to take in the scenery every now and then.’

And as such, Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Spike, Celestia, Luna, Flash Magnus, Somnambula, Gallus, Smolder and Silverstream flapped their wings as they were prepared to take the air.

‘We’ll let you know if we find any records of what the First Jedi hid.’ said Twilight as she and the flyers looked at Luke and the others.

‘Don’t worry,’ said Pinkie Pie ‘We’ll be sure to pass the time with some party games until you get back.’

And as such, they flew off to Old Pegasopolis’ records building, hoping that the that the place would still stand. But as they flew, they could see that there were barely any living places for the Pegasi of old.

‘You know,’ said Spike as he looked around, showing a hint of sadness in his eyes. ‘I can’t help but feel sad about this place.’

‘Somehow I can see that feeling from somewhere before.’ said Smolder when she noticed Spike being sad.

‘Truth be told I haven’t felt this way since Tirek destroyed the Golden Oak Library.’ said Spike, thinking about the day when Tirek was fighting Twilight when he wanted her Alicorn Magic to destroy Equestria.

‘I know what you mean.’ said Twilight, for she missed the place, even though she’s living in the Castle of Friendship.

‘I wish the Legion would’ve known about this place,’ said Flash Magnus when he felt the same way ‘Then we would’ve stayed behind and protected our heritage to the last pony.’

‘The old home of the Pegasi may be gone,’ said Somnambula as she reassured them ‘But we are still standing. The only thing we can do is move on for the sake of our ancestors.’

‘When this is over,’ said Celestia ‘We will ensure that the ponies of today will not forget their old home, and would let ponies of all tribes visit the original homelands rather than leave them to rot.’

‘Agreed sister,’ said Luna ‘We should have done this since the first days of our rule over the land.’

‘Hey look,’ said Spike as he pointed ahead ‘We’re nearly there.’

They looked at the building ahead, and noticed the building was still standing, much to Rainbow Dash’s annoyance, seeing that she doesn’t like learning ‘Typical.’

As they entered, they were surprised to see what the place looked like. For inside, were two desks on both sides, one for checking in and one for checking out. But the rest of the room were massive bookshelves, each of them depicting the Pegasi’s history. ‘Whoa,’ said Flash Magnus ‘Where do we look?’

‘We’ll have to take separate sections,’ said Celestia ‘That way we’ll be able to find them faster.’

‘Agreed,’ said Luna, agreeing with the plan.

Twilight nearly wanted to glee in excitement, but kept it contained as she said ‘We’ll take different sections. Celestia will take section A, Flash Magnus will check section B, Fluttershy will check section C, Gallus will take D, Rainbow Dash E, Spike in section F, Silverstream in section G, Smolder in H, Somnambula in I, and I’ll take section J. If we don’t find what we’re looking for, we’ll take the next section.’

‘Very well,’ said Somnambula ‘Let us begin.’

Soon enough, all of them began to search through the different sections of the Archives, hoping that they would find anything. Though through every part of the shelves they’ve searched, they still couldn’t find anything.

Spike however, was getting bored out of his mind, wanting to get things done quicker. ‘Ugh, this is taking forever, we won’t be able to find it in this mess.’

Spike then heard a voice that said “Let the Force be your guide.”, taking him by surprise as he sat up straight.

‘What?’ said Spike to himself whilst he was surprised as if a ghost was talking to him.

“Let the Force be my guide.” he thought to himself. He then said to himself ‘Sure, why not.’

Spike sat on his knees like Luke did, lowered his head and closed his eyes. He continued to keep his focus, trying to concentrate on what he was looking for. Sure enough, Spike felt something. It felt faint, but he could feel it all the same. He opened his eyes, and looked further down the hall. Knowing where he needed to go, he stood up and headed straight for his intended target.

As he walked down the hall, Spike barely noticed what was going on around him. Rainbow Dash decided to take a nap and was fast asleep, Twilight held tons of documents with her horn as she looked around, Celestia and Luna calmly looked through the documents in order to make sure they don’t miss anything. Fluttershy and Silverstream slowly looked through the documents, with Flash Magnus and Somnambula doing the same. Gallus got bored from looking through the documents, but sometimes he gets a slap behind his head from Smolder to make sure he doesn’t fall asleep whilst looking through for what they hope the Pegasi of old had recorded.

Spike eventually reached where he needed to go, all the way to Section Z. He looked at the shelves and noticed the records were placed in metallic cylinders. From what Twilight told him, the metallic cylinders were used to place important documents inside in order to preserve them. He looked at them closely, but was somehow drawn to the one that had a cyan colored lid on it. He reached his hand onto it and pulled it out. He noticed that the metallic cylinder was nearly the size of that large painting he had to hang for Twilight some time ago when Sunset Shimmer, along with Twilight and Rainbow Dash’s counterpart, came to ask for their help when the Storm King’s magic somehow reached to their world during their so called “Spring Break”.

‘Wow, this thing is big.’ said Spike as he could barely carry it.

Thankfully, he noticed a table all the way down near Section S, so he walked over to it and placed the cylinder on the table, which was thankfully big enough like a table cloth that’s not too big, not to small, just right.

‘Let’s see now.’ said Spike as he opened the cylinder and pulled out the biggest document he had ever seen.

He placed the document onto the table and rolled it over. When he got a good look at it, he saw that it nearly resembled to ancient hieroglyphics what with the pictures and all, but thankfully there was ancient writing on it for anypony to read. He was at least relieved that though Commander Hurricane may be a hotheaded bonehead, he was at least thankful that there were some Pegasi that wanted to archive their histories.

Spike took another look at it and noticed that, like the glyphs at the Unicorn Tribe’s home, he recognized the first Jedi on it. He turned to the others and said ‘Hey guys, I think I found something.’

Every pony and creature’s attention was turned to Spike and went over to him. When they saw the document, they were surprised to see the glyphs of it. ‘Wow Spike, I’m impressed.’ said Twilight as she took a good look at it.

Celestia also took a good look at it and said ‘Interesting. According to this, the First Jedi arrived at the Pegasi’s old home and asked them to hide something important in their kingdom. At first they were reluctant into trusting them, but thankfully they were convinced to be of help.’

‘If we are reading this right,’ said Luna whilst taking a good look at it. ‘It would appear that the tomb of the next clue they’ve buried resides from within the mountain near here.’

‘Wait,’ said Smolder as she looked at it ‘That mountain looks like the one that we just landed on, didn’t we?’

‘It would appear so.’ said Somnambula whilst she looked at it.

‘And just about ten feet from where we landed,’ said Flash Magnus whilst he looked at the map again ‘There is a secret passage way that leads straight towards the place.’

‘Huh,’ said Silverstream whilst she looked at it ‘Looks like the Pegasi of old created traps in that general area that only Pegasi could maneuver and pass.’

Twilight folded the documents and placed them back in its cylinder whilst she said ‘We’d better give this to the others, they’ll want to know where we should go next.’

‘Agreed.’ said Flash Magnus ‘We don’t know if there are any more dangers around.’

Sure enough, all of them left the archives.

At the same time, whilst they were waiting, Luke continued to meditate whilst it almost looked like he was watching the land. At the same time, the creatures chose to keep Luke company as they stared out at the open plains.

Luke kept his eyes closed, but he asked Yona ‘What did you mean by bad experience when it came to walking on clouds?’
Yona felt a bit uneasy, but then sighed as she said ‘Yona went with friends to watch home of Pegasi. When all of a sudden, Yona and others fell from clouds. It was terrifying.’

‘Indeed,’ said Rarity ‘It turned out that the magic to help them walk on clouds had been stripped. As was all of our magic throughout Equestria.’

‘And this Tirek was responsible?’

‘Not really,’ said Sandbar ‘He had help from a Pegasus filly named Cozy Glow.’

‘It turned out she didn’t want to learn about friendship,’ said Starlight ‘She tried to take over Equestria and said that Friendship was power, and she thought if she would have more friends she would take over Equestria.’

‘That no good pony tried to benefit in its conquest and nothing else,’ said Applejack ‘She even locked up mah little sister and her friends so that they wouldn’t interfere.’

‘So her heart had been corrupted with the Dark Side since she joined the school.’ said Luke whilst he thought about the demented pony. ‘Was she always like this?’

‘No one knows darling,’ said Rarity ‘None of us had seen it coming. She manipulated the situation and played us for fools.’

‘If it weren't for our students,’ said Pinkie Pie ‘Then Equestria would be one big magicless partyless wasteland.’

‘I see.’ said Luke ‘And did you try reaching her out?’

‘She doesn’t want to be helped,’ said Ocellus ‘She thinks that Honesty, Loyalty, Generosity and so on is a waste of time and thinks that she can make friends without using any of them.’

‘From your description,’ said Luke as he thought about their description of her ‘She tends to act like a dictator and malevolent leader rather than being a friend.’

‘I know right,’ said Pinkie Pie ‘She’s a real bad influence to others.’

‘Where is she now?’

‘She’s locked up in a prison called Tartarus.’ said Applejack.

‘I assume this world does not execute their prisoners?’ said Luke.

‘Goodness no darling,’ said Rarity as she was surprised Luke would ask that ‘Equestria is not that cruel. If we were to do such a thing, we would be no better than the last creature who wanted to enslave us.’

‘That I am glad to hear,’ said Luke ‘If we tend to be consumed with the Dark Side, we would be just as horrible as the last dictator.’

Rockhoof looked out at the horizon and saw Twilight and the others coming. ‘Ah, I see the princesses and her companions are back.’

As they landed, they walked over to Luke whilst the rest regrouped.

‘Any Luck?’ said Luke whilst still sitting in position.

‘Thankfully yes,’ said Luna whilst she hovered the opened the cylinder and took out the documents and map ‘We were thankful the Pegasi of old decided to document their historic activities.’

Luke stood up and accepted the map. He looked through it and saw what he needed to see. He looked behind and walked towards the wall of the mountain after he handed the documents back to Twilight. Luke stood near the mountain and closed his eyes whilst reaching out towards it. Sure enough, he used the Force on the side of the mountain cracked, allowing it to form a door as the stone against it lowered, revealing a secret passage.

‘Wow,’ said Rainbow Dash ‘Never thought the Pegasi would create secret passage ways. Usually it’s doing things first and hide stuff later.’

‘We must not be judged by what others assume of us,’ said Luke ‘We tend to act the best of our abilities and try to keep moving forward for the sake of its future.’

‘Those are wise words indeed Master Skywalker.’ said Celestia with a smile and nod.

‘Now then,’ said Starswirl ‘If we are to find what we’re looking for, I believe it is time to depart.’

Agreeing with Starswirl, they continued to walk down the path that was revealed to them. When they were inside, they saw that they were in a large room that was wider than the Roman Coliseum, much to their surprise. But there was no ground, only the wind that was blowing from what nearly looked like an abyss, all blowing upward towards somewhere unknown. But strange enough, there were statues of Pegasi that appeared to be formed in six corners.

‘Whoa.’ said the group when they saw the size of the place.

Starswirl took a look at the gust of wind blowing up. ‘Hmm, interesting. From the look of it, it appears that anyone who jumps into this gust, will allow themselves to float in the air.’

‘Well then,’ said Applejack as she took a few steps forward ‘Then it’ll be mighty easy to…’

‘Wait,’ said Luke, cutting Applejack off. ‘Something’s not right.’

Luke looked at a large enough rock and used the Force to levitate it. He tossed the rock into the gust, allowing the gust of wind to blow it upwards. But the moment it went past its first Pegasi statues, something sharp, namely arrows made of steel, flew out of their mouths, slowly breaking the rock into pieces, much to the others’ shock.

‘I had a feeling those statues weren't there for decorative purposes.’ said Luke as he took a look at them.

‘He’s right, look.’ said Twilight as she pointed at the statues. ‘They have a jewel in their eye, acting like magical scanners. If anything passes them, the jewels trigger the arrows in their mouths, allowing the statues themselves to shoot at anything that moves.’

‘What would happen if we removed the jewels?’ asked Flash Magnus.

‘It would not work.’ said Stygian. He took out a piece of the steel arrow and shot at the jewel. The moment it made contact, the jewel, along with the statue exploded, as well as some of the debris, allowing them to collapse. ‘If the jewels were to be removed, they would trigger some very explosive gunpowder.’

‘And letting the place collapse on us.’ said Mistmane as she took a good look at it.

‘Can we use force fields?’ asked Celestia.

Luke thought about something and took another look at the steel arrow. He picked it up and took another glance at it. He looked at Twilight and poked her on the shoulder, gaining her attention.

‘Miss Sparkle, can you create one of your force fields?’ asked Luke.

‘Oh, of course.’ said Twilight with a smile.

She created her force field as Luke asked. When he slowly brought the steel arrow close to her shield, to her and the others’ surprise, the arrow penetrated right through it as if the bubble was made out of paper.

‘Interesting,’ said Luke as he retracted the arrow ‘An element that has the ability to penetrate through the shield of the Unicorns.’

Luke stood up and took another look at the place. ‘It makes sense now. The way the arrows destroyed the rock, the jewels that will explode if being tampered, as well as arrows that can penetrate a unicorn’s magic. They were designed to keep the Unicorns and Earth Ponies out.’

‘But why built such horrid traps?’ said Rarity as she was appalled by the way the traps were meant to take care of any intruders.

‘From what I could guess,’ said Luke ‘The Pegasi had some hatred towards the other pony tribes. They were afraid that the other tribes would take their share of the food and leave them with nothing, so they built this place to store them and keep any intruders out.’

‘Okay,’ said Rainbow Dash when she too was shocked by the Pegasi’s tactics ‘I know Commander Hurricane had issues, but dang he really needed to lighten up.’

‘Indeed,’ said Flash Magnus, agreeing with Dash ‘May heaven bless the day Private Pansy, Clover the Clever and Secretary Smart Cookie helped others realize their error of their ways.’

‘You can say that again.’ said Rockhoof.

‘So how do we get up there?’ said Gallus ‘If both options are out, what else is there?’

Luke took a deep breath, concentrated with all his will within himself and the Force. ‘May the Force be with me.’ he said to himself, gaining their attention.

He took a few steps backwards, and to their shock, sprinted towards the edge and jumped, allowing the wind to carry him. But as he got up, the arrows began to fire. Many were now worried, but to their surprise, Luke quickly did a somersault and placed his first footing onto the arrow, and used all his strength to jump from it.

From arrow to arrow, Luke continued to jump from one spot to another, making his way to the top, trying to reach to the top of the spot where they needed to go. Sure enough, after climbing from arrow to arrow, he eventually made it to the top. After a few breathers, Luke saw the lever and reached towards it, allowing himself to grab hold of it and pulled it down, allowing the statues to lower themselves, as if they were never there.

Many were surprised to see how Luke had moved, but they didn’t have time to marvel at his abilities, now that the now have a way to float towards the top. One by one, they jumped onto the upward blowing gust that allowed them to fly, except for the Alicorns, Pegasi and Dragons, Griffon and Hippogriff, seeing that they have wings, which allowed them to eventually to reach the top to rejoin Luke.

‘That was an amazing display you just performed Master Luke.’ said Luna.

‘Indeed.’ said Celestia ‘How were you able to reach the top without being hit by the arrows?’

‘I merely let the Force guide me your highnesses,’ said Luke with a bow ‘With it as my guide and my instincts, I was able to use those arrows at my advantage to reach to the top.’

Luke thought about the arrows. ‘Strange though.’

‘What do you mean?’ asked Spike.

‘The arrows, the wind, even of how the Pegasi had set up traps.’ said Luke of what he saw ‘It is as if they were meant to test a Jedi as a trail, in order for them to reach their destination using the Force.’

‘Wait,’ said Rainbow Dash ‘You don’t think that it was the ponies of Equestria who taught the First Jedi on how to properly use the Force do you? Or was it the other way around?’

‘It could be possible,’ said Luke as he looked at them ‘There was not much known about the First Jedi, or of how they used the power of the Force to help them through their every day task.’

‘There is also another room up ahead.’ said Somnambula whilst she pointed at the room ahead.

‘Who do you think that will be next through those doors?’ asked Mage Meadowbrook.

‘If the danger is there like Ajunta, Revan and Malak,’ said Stygian in a worried tone ‘I dare not question of who else lies beyond those doors.’

‘There is only one way to find out.’ said Luna, obviously worried.

They slowly approached the doors, then opened it together. As they entered, they noticed that the room a bit different. For one thing, in the center, was a large circle of a courtyard, whilst surrounding it was enough water to last any person/pony a lifetime. But from the courtyard were two stoned pathways, one where it led straight, and two more that goes from left to right, leading towards two individual doors.

As they walked inside, Luke continued to try and contain his emotions so that he could be better prepared to face what was up ahead, whilst the others nervously looked around, worried about what they might face inside.

As they walked, Luke immediately sensed something, and signaled them to halt. They stopped and immediately looked around, trying to figure out what would be awaiting for them. And sure enough, as if a twisted hand of fate, two of the stoned doors slowly opened. Sure enough, two beings slowly approached from the doors. The first person to appear from the left, which left half of the girls, namely Fluttershy and Rarity, to gasp loudly by the sight of it.

The two of them were Sith of course. But one had black boots, black pants, and a black silk waist girdle. But the most terrifying part, was that his body was completely scarred by what appeared to be years of warfare, whilst his one eye was white, presumably blind. The other Sith wore a different kind of robe that covered his body, as well as having black pants, boots, gloves, sleeves and vest all underneath, whilst he was also wearing a white mask with red stripes covering both of the mask’s eyes.

Luke immediately recognized them, from Master Yoda’s stories. They were none other than Darth Nihilus and Darth Sion, both of the most darkest and most powerful Sith in the galaxy, that they make the Emperor look like a underclass warrior.
‘Who…what are they?’ asked Fluttershy, clearly scared of the two Sith Lords.

‘Stay back,’ said Luke ‘Something tells me that they’re not here to…’

But Luke was immediately cut off when Darth Nihilus reached his hand out, using his Force Grip, causing Luke to choke as he was being lifted off the ground as he held onto his throat, shocking the others by what was going on. Nihilus immediately threw Luke against the wall, then fell on his rear, with his Lightsaber next to his leg.
‘Luke!!’ shouted Twilight, showing worry for her friend.

Luke groaned from the pain, but could barely keep himself conscious. But as he opened his eyes, he saw Darth Sion coming for him. Luke tried to reach out for his Lightsaber, but Darth Sion immediately grabbed Luke’s face, making him groan in pain as he held onto twisted Sith Lord’s arm. With great force, Sion thrusted Luke against the wall, kneed him in the gut, punched him left and right, and was grabbed by the throat as he was lifted in the air, and thrown onto the ground with great force.

Though he may appear unconscious, it was still clear that every creature was now afraid for Luke’s safety. Luke groaned a bit as he gripped onto his hand, whilst Sion stood over him and activated his Lightsaber. ‘Not so strong are you?’ said Sion as he raised his Lightsaber in the air to strike him down.

But right before Sion could struck the Last Jedi down, Luke immediately responded by using his Force Push at the most powerful way he could use. With the Force Push, Sion was launched backwards and skidded on the ground and stood next to Nihilus. Luke slowly stood up and pulled out his Lightsaber, gripping onto it as he stared them down.

The two Sith Lords noticed something about Luke. Nihilus ended up speaking to Luke in the most ancient language that no one could understand, until Sion said ‘You. You are gifted with the Midi-chlorians.’

The ponies and the Young Six were puzzled by what they meant, with Luke continued to stare down at them. ‘What of it.’ said Luke, continuing to stare at them down.

Nihilus continued to speak to Luke in its ancient language, with Sion saying ‘It was prophesized that there would be one that would be conceived with the living Force itself to bring balance between light and dark. Which in turn, the Sith once feared that we and our empire would be destroyed. So we vowed to find the one who it is and destroy it, so that we can continue with our conquest without interference.’

‘That will never happen.’ said Luke ‘The last Sith I faced failed to turn me into them. For I am and always will be a Jedi, like my father before me.’

‘Then you will fall by our hand.’ said Sion as he readied his Lightsaber, with Nihilus doing the same.

That was, until they were suddenly electrocuted, surprising Luke. As the two of them instantly recovered, Sion growled as he said ‘Who would dare…?’

And just like that, the Mane 6, Starlight, Sunburst, Spike, the Pillars, the Young Six and the princesses of day and night stood together to defend their friend.

‘You dare stand before the lords of the Sith?’ growled Sion, clearly as angry as hell.

‘Lords of the Sith or not,’ said Princess Celestia with her cold gaze ‘We will not allow the last of the Jedi and a friend to Equestria suffer by the likes of you.’

‘This is your only warning,’ said Luna, her facial expression the same as her sister’s ‘You will cease your violence or we will cease you.’

Nihilus looked at them, fist gripping, and for the first time, said ‘Then you will suffer the Jedi’s fate!!’

Nihilus unleashed his Force Push, causing many to scatter as they also grabbed Luke. Pinkie instantly jumped next to Sion and held a gift box in front of her as she said ‘Surprise!!’

Sion instantly took it whilst Pinkie zipped away. Until she suddenly popped out of it and yelled ‘Double surprise!!’

Pinkie slapped her cake against Sion’s face, making him growl in anger whilst trying to wipe the cake from his face, until Rainbow Dash flew from out of nowhere and gave the Sith Lord a hard punch to the face, whilst Applejack retracted her hind legs and bucked him, making him dart straight towards the air. Flash Magnus flew down and whacked his shield against the Sith Lord’s face, with Mistmane using her magic to contain the Sith Lord whilst Mage Meadowbrook used her potions to incapacitate him, allowing Spike and Smolder to breathe fire on them whilst Yona flattened him like a pancake.

Fluttershy, Ocellus and Sandbar quickly carried Luke to safety as Ocellus said ‘Come on, come on.’

‘It’s okay, we got you.’ said Sandbar whilst they quickly moved aside.

‘But…’ said Luke, trying to shake loose from them.

‘Not another word,’ said Fluttershy ‘You need to regain your strength first before you go on like that.’

Nihilus continued to use his Force Lightning and Push to try and catch them, but they quickly dodged them before things got out of hand. As Nihilus used his Force Lightning, Rarity and Sunburst quickly deployed their bubble shields, whilst Twilight and Starlight jumped out and fired all of their magic at him, knocking the masked Sith backwards. Rockhoof jumped from behind and whacked the Sith Lord with his shovel whilst Somnambula delivered a good buck to the face, cracking the mask for just a bit. From out of nowhere, Silverstream and Gallus grabbed him and took to the skies, lifting Nihilus up in the process. They eventually dropped him, but just right when Starswirl, Stygian, Celestia and Luna powered all of their magic all together and shot at Nihilus with a full blast of their magic, knocking the masked Sith Lord backwards as he crashed against the wall.

‘Enough of this!!’ shouted Sion as both he and Nihilus stood together.

Both the Sith Lords began to generate electricity from their hands as it surged from the tip of their fingers to the elbow. Combined, the two of them fired their Force Lightning. Thankfully, Celestia, Luna, Stygian, Mistmane, Starswirl, Sunburst, Starlight, Rarity and Twilight lit up their horns, allowing them to create a powerful shield around them, shielding them from the Force Lightning. The Unicorns grunted, for the power of their lightning were powerful.

Luke saw that they were in trouble, as did Ocellus. ‘We need to help them.’

Luke, now having enough of the Sith trying to hurt his friends, pulled out his Lightsaber as he said ‘No, we need to end this, now.’

As the Alicorns and Unicorns were struggling to keep the shield up, Sion shouted ‘You will fall before our…!!!’
But before he could finish, Luke appeared from out of nowhere and attacked from above. With one massive strike, Luke struck down two of the Sith Lords. He stood there for a few moments, until the two Sith Lords stopped shooting their lightning, and instantly collapsed onto the ground, causing the two of them to fade out of existence, except for their Lightsabers. He walked over and picked them up. He could sense their evil, but they soon faded away, as if they were never real.

Luke turned to them and asked ‘Are all of you alright?’

‘Indeed we are Luke.’ said Luna.

‘A little shaken up, but well.’ said Celestia.

‘Luke,’ said Twilight whilst she was still shaken up over of how Luke got hurt, and the two Sith Lords ‘Just who were those two?’

‘Darth Nihilus and Darth Sion.’ said Luke.

‘More ancient Sith from the past?’ asked Silverstream, whilst she was still surprised by what happened.

‘Yes,’ said Luke as he decided to tell them ‘Shortly after Revan disappeared, the Sith began to take over and destroy a few worlds. There were two who were the most powerful. They both turned on their master, blinded her, and stripped her of the Force, making her wander the galaxy with no goal.’

‘And I assume that they were hunting the leftover Jedi from their Civil War?’ asked Rockhoof.

‘Yes,’ said Luke ‘But for some reason, the Ebon Hawk, the very ship Revan departed, somehow returned, with half of the crew, both good and evil, dead. And among the survivors, an elderly woman and a Jedi that were called “The Exile”.

‘You mentioned that before,’ said Celestia, remembering when Luke first brought it up ‘Who was this Exile?’

‘The Exile was with a handful of Jedi who chose to leave with Revan to stop whoever was responsible for the Sith,’ said Luke as he looked at them ‘But after he came back, he couldn’t remember what happened, nor recalled what happened once they traveled to the unknown regions.’

‘And how did he survive?’ asked Twilight.

‘You remember the droid that once accompanied Revan?’ asked Luke, whilst the others nodded to his question. ‘He somehow survived on the ship too, and was able to take it to a space station built within an asteroid. However, Bounty Hunters were after him.’

‘Bounty Hunters?’ asked Applejack with a flexed eyebrow ‘What in the hay for?’

‘You see,’ said Luke, explaining to Applejack ‘After the Civil War, the Republic were still in shambles whilst the criminal element slowly began to take over the galaxy, and they sent Bounty Hunters to hunt down any Jedi who might either still be in hiding, or helping local militia who were still loyal to the Republic.’

‘That’s horrible.’ said Fluttershy the moment Luke told them the shocking revelation about the criminal element.

‘Yes, but during that time,’ said Luke, explaining further the Exile’s story ‘The Bounty Hunters killed every worker on the station, including HK-50’s, advance robots of the HK-47’s. But thankfully he was saved by a smuggler named Atton, and an elderly woman who was strong in the Force.’

Luke was silent for a moment, causing the ponies to be concerned. Until Luke said ‘The same woman who was once the master of both Darth Sion and Darth Nihilus.’

They gasped at this piece of information. ‘They turned on their own master?!’ said Twilight out loud.

‘The Sith always betray one another for their own selfish reasons.’ said Luke.

‘Right,’ said Ocellus as she remembered what Luke told them ‘Because of their own arrogance and their own greed.’

‘Exactly.’ said Luke. ‘Once the Exile, the elder woman and Atton escaped the asteroid station, the Sith Lord Dark Sion continued to hunt them, but were able to escape to a planet called Telos, one of the worlds that were destroyed by the Sith during the Civil War, and where one of Revan’s companions used to live. But after they left on a shuttle, they met an old companion named Bao-Dur, one of the officers that fought alongside him. Soon enough, they met one of the Jedi Masters on the other side of Telos. Their encounter…wasn’t a pleasant one.’

‘Ah take it she was one of the masters that enjoyed exiling the Jedi that were corrupted by Revan and Malak’s influences?’ said Applejack with a quirked eyebrow.

‘Yes,’ said Luke whilst trying to remember the stories that Master Yoda and Obi-Wan told him. ‘After they left, the droid T3 found a recording of the council exiling him. But after he left, they talked about him, how Malachor V would’ve destroyed him, but it left an echo inside of him, one that had not been felt since the fall of the Jedi.’

‘Malachor?’ asked Luna, wondering what it was.

‘Malachor V was a large asteroid that was most powerful with the Dark Side,’ said Luke ‘It was also the place where the Sith had constructed their temple and were hidden in secret so that the Jedi would never find them.’

Twilight felt more and more fascinated by Luke’s story about the Jedi Temple. ‘After they had viewed what the Masters revealed, the Exile made a vow to find them throughout certain parts of the galaxy, to ask for their help and to help shed light on what they had talked about. But along the way, the Handmaiden known as Brianna, one of the master’s apprentices, stowed away aboard their ship and chose to come along with them. The Exile allowed it, whilst he also tried to remember on how to use the Force, and in turn, tried to teach that to her as well.’

‘Say,’ said Spike as he gained Luke’s attention ‘Why don’t you continue with the Exile’s story whilst we go to the next clue.’

‘Very well.’ said Luke as he led the way, with the others following.

‘So who else accompanied the exile?’ asked Twilight, whilst she was eager to learn more and document about this later.

‘During their travels the Exile met many who would wish to help.’ said Luke. ‘They met a woman named Visas, who became the last of her kind when the Sith destroyed her world. Then there was Mira, a bounty hunter from Nar Shadaa, a capitol for criminals you might say. Then there was an old HK-47, the same droid who also helped Revan in his time of need. GO-TO, a large probe droid who once belonged to a criminal kingpin but was given to us. Then there was Ordo.’

‘Wait, Ordo?’ asked Twilight ‘As in Canderous Ordo, the man who once fought alongside Revan?’

‘Yes,’ said Luke ‘After Revan left to stop whatever threat was out there, Canderous sought out his scattered clan and reunited them to fight against the Sith. Though some Mandalorians had little trust for him, seeing that the Exile and the Jedi under Revan fought against them during the Mandalorian Wars.’

‘The Mandalorians were at war with the Republic?’ asked Luna.

‘Yes,’ said Luke, ‘They’re an ongoing warrior race who are always at war with each other and everyone else.’
‘They fight each other and others?’ asked Silverstream.

‘Yes, and if you wonder how terrible they are,’ said Luke whilst focusing on the path ahead. ‘Picture all of Equestria and its towns and cities. But with domes made of metal around every town and city, whilst everything else, the green, all died out and turned their world into a desolate wasteland.’

Many were horrified to hear what the Mandalorians did to their own world, until Spike said ‘I take it that they didn’t stand a chance against the Empire?’

‘No,’ said Luke ‘But during the Clone Wars, a Sith named Darth Maul, the one that my master once defeated long ago, somehow survived and killed the Mandalorian leadership whilst those who were traitors to the Mandalorian people and who were once loyal to Maul, they immediately joined the Empire when they came above Mandalore’s orbit, the homeworld of the Mandalorians.’

‘And what happened to Maul?’ asked Starswirl.

‘The moment when Order 66 were executed,’ said Luke, remembering what Ahsoka told him when they first met ‘My father’s apprentice Ahsoka was forced to release him when the clones that fought with her turned on her. She was able to get her old friend and second in command of my father’s army, named Commander Rex from the 501st Clone Battalion. She was able to remove the chip and the two of them tried to escape. However, Rex tried to reason with his fellow clones, but because of the chips inside their minds, they considered anyone an enemy of the Empire.’

‘You know,’ said Stygian as he remembered something ‘You never explained what happened to the clones after they were decommissioned.’

‘Most of them continued to serve the empire until they all died.’ said Luke ‘But some chose to stay out of galactic affairs and tried to live their lives as best they could. That’s how Rex was still alive, along with others who also removed their control chips, namely clones named Wolf and Gregor. However, when their chips were removed, Wolf became paranoid and Gregor was a little stir crazy.’

‘And Rex joined the fight?’ asked Flash Magnus.

‘Yes,’ said Luke ‘He was serving among the Rebels who fought at the Battle of Endor. I rarely speak to him every now and then, considering that he fought alongside my father, and that he saw how my father fought, even taught me on how to fight.’

‘He sounds like a good man.’ said Mage Meadowbrook whilst she was impressed with this Rex person.

‘He is,’ said Luke ‘But I am always thankful for the stories that both he and Ahsoka shared with me. Getting to know my parents of what they were like before all of it came crashing down brought me some closure.’

‘Getting back to the story,’ said Luke, when he was getting off track. ‘Once the Exile gathered those who would follow, he went all over the galaxy, fighting the bounty hunters and Sith who kept hunting him relentlessly, fought the Sith on most fronts, even helped saved all those he could, even gathered the other scattered masters. They regrouped back at Dantooine, except for one, who still remained in isolation.’

‘And let me guess,’ said Rainbow Dash whilst she crossed her hooves, knowing full well about what will happen ‘They refused to help him because they were afraid of the Dark side.’

‘That,’ said Luke whilst answered Dash’s question ‘And that the exile’s very presence brings a danger to them. Just before they were going to strip him of the Force once more, The old woman, Kreia, she arrived and told them of their flaws and the arrogance that they had brought because of their own fears. As a result, she rendered the Exile unconscious and killed the masters.’

The ponies were appalled by what Kreia had done. ‘She killed them?’ said Rarity as she too was in shock.

‘Yes. After the Exile woke up, the Exile went to Telos to confront the last Jedi Master, who was slowly tainted by the Dark Side. They fought and he was able to free her. But she told the Exile to leave and save Telos, for the Sith were invading with full force. But thanks to Ordo, he and his fellow Mandalorians were able to help him invade the lead Sith Ship, being led by Darth Nihilus.’

‘Darth Nihilus was on board that there ship?’ asked Applejack.

‘Indeed Applejack. After they confronted him, they fought to a near standstill, and then finally killed him. That said and done, he finished what he was set to do and left for Malachor V, to finish the fight once and for all after he found out that both Kreia and Sion were waiting for them. But after they arrived, they crash landed because of the magnetic storms.’
‘What are magnetic storms?’ asked Mistmane.

‘Picture something that could say nullify your magic without any of you realizing it.’

‘Oh, that makes more sense.’ said Pinkie Pie whilst she was bouncing.

‘Afterwards,’ said Luke as he wrapped up the Exile’s story ‘His companions were separate, trying to find their way towards Malachor V’s inner sanctum. They eventually fought their way and defeated both Darth Sion and Kreia. But before Kreia died, she told them where to find Revan, for he was still out there and he needed help, for he was still beyond the farthest corners of the unknown regions. Once Malachor V was destroyed, they took the Ebon Hawk and flew to where Revan was. But by the time they got there, Revan was gone. But once they returned, they rebuilt the Order to the way it should be, but they also focused on getting more Jedi on Tython, the Jedi’s homeworld, and chose to abandon the one in Dantooine completely.’

‘Wow,’ said Rainbow Dash as she hovered next to Luke ‘Gotta admit, the Jedi has some great legends.’

‘Indeed.’ said Luke ‘Makes me wonder if I will live up to their expectations.’

‘Oh darling don’t sell yourself so short.’ said Rarity ‘From what you told us about yourself you have done so much for the Republic.’

‘She’s right,’ said Applejack ‘Y’all are always honest, ya help those in need, ya stood up for your friends are among the bravest things you’ve ever accomplished. The Jedi of old may have bungled up a few times, but they needed to find a way to be in balance when trying to have a life too.’

Luke couldn’t help but smile as he looked at them, with him saying ‘Thank you.’

‘Look, tomb up ahead.’ said Sandbar as he pointed at the stone door ahead.

Once they opened it, they discovered another tomb for another of the first Jedi, but the tomb was surrounded by tons of little boxes. Out of curiosity, Spike took the first one. He opened it, and it began to play music, much to the others’ surprise.

‘Music boxes?’ said Ocellus as she looked at one of them.

‘They must be from different worlds,’ said Luke as he looked at them ‘So that most can remember what their cultures would be like before time itself had changed them.’

Luke went over to another coffin, but this one was a bit stubborn. Thanks to Applejack, Yona and Rockhoof, they were able to open it. Sunburst used his magic to lift up not one, but two Lightsabers, both who’s runes were just as ancient, and both were the color of purple. As they placed it away, Silverstream reached her claw into the coffin and pulled out a scroll contained in a metallic cylinder.

‘Here you go.’ said Silverstream as she presented it to Luke.

Luke accepted it and slightly bowed to her in respect. It wasn’t necessary, but she enjoyed the flattery. Luke opened the scroll and looked through its contents.

He gained their attention as he said ‘According to the scroll, it says that the next clue of the temple’s location would be hidden within the grand village of the masters of the earth.’

Pinkie bounced up and down multiple times as she suddenly had an idea. ‘Oh, oh, I know where it is.’

‘You do?’ asked Rainbow Dash.

Applejack also had the idea. ‘Oh yeah, the village of Dirtville, which some would call Earth’s Haven, home to the Earth Pony Tribes.’

‘Oh, where’s that?’ asked Twilight, for she never had the chance to study more about the original homelands of the pony tribes.

‘It’s just south of mah cousin Braeburn’s hometown of Appaloosa,’ said Applejack ‘Mah family’s known about that for centuries. In fact, we’re the descendant of Secretary Smart Cookie, the only Earth Pony with any sense among the Earth Ponies.’

‘Ah yes,’ said Rockhoof as he remembered her well ‘Without sensible ponies like her and those who think like her, Equestria wouldn’t be what it would be today.’

‘Then we’d better get moving.’ said Luke as he was somewhat in a hurry.

‘You okay there Luke-e?’ said Pinkie Pie as she leaned closer.

‘I cannot place my finger on it,’ said Luke ‘But I can sense a dark presence coming forth, but it will not show itself yet.’

‘Like what?’ asked Twilight, as she too was somewhat worried.

‘It’s uncertain.’ said Luke ‘The Dark Side of the force clouds one’s vision from seeing the future, so it’ll be impossible to see.’

‘If what you said is true,’ said Celestia ‘Then we had better hurry.’

‘Indeed,’ said Luna with determination ‘Onward to the home of the Earth Ponies.’

Soon the group left, hurrying towards their next destination as quick as they could.

Chapter 8: The Secrets of the Kingdom of the Earth Ponies

Author's Notes:

Here's the next one. Thanks again for your feedback on the story. In this one, Luke will decide what he will become for the sake of the galaxy, and find a way to bring balance to the Force.

Surely enough, by the time the sun was close to setting, the Jedi Master and his pony/creature companions arrived to where they needed to be. They soon landed near the dirt path and exited from the ship, taking in on the surroundings. They noticed that there was nearly no dirt path, for it had been covered by trees.

‘Whoa,’ said Sandbar as he looked around ‘There’s nothing but trees all around.’

‘Well given the fact that nopony had been here since they left, it’s obvious that the trees would grow if they’re left unattended.’ said Twilight as she walked out.

‘Indeed,’ said Luna as she and Celestia walked out last ‘This place reminds me of the White Tail Woods.’

Spike looked at the scroll that Luke handed to him and did a thorough search on it. ‘According to the scroll,’ said Spike ‘The village of the Earth Pony Tribes are just beyond the hill.’

‘Wait,’ said Applejack as she noticed Spike reading through it ‘How do you know what that there scroll says?’

‘Oh, Luke taught me,’ said Spike ‘I wanted to know how to read this in order to help him out, so he taught me and I was able to read this.’

‘Indeed he has,’ said Luke ‘He is a quick study.’

‘Wait, you’ve never shown any interest like that before.’ said Twilight as she walked next to Spike ‘Why now?’

‘No idea,’ said Spike as he shrugged ‘Normally I wouldn’t be interested in this, but somehow I can’t take my eyes off of any of this.’

As Spike walked ahead with the Young Six, Luke walked next to Twilight as he said ‘I know the answer to that.’

‘You do?’ asked Twilight.

‘Yes,’ said Luke ‘Spike is very strong with the Force, he was able to use it when he saved my life, and was able to use a Lightsaber to fight the Sith spirit from the Temple underneath Canterlot.’

‘You think he could be a Jedi?’ asked Celestia when she overheard them.

‘I do not know for sure,’ said Luke ‘Spike may be strong with the Force, but his destiny is with Twilight and her friends. They are connected to one another, as if they were fated to be united.’

‘Fated?’ asked Twilight.

‘Indeed,’ said Luke ‘Master Kenobi once said that his master, Qui-Gon Jinn, once said that nothing happens by accident, it was the will of the Force that brought you together. But tell me, how is it you lot achieved what you wanted and met?’

‘Well,’ said Twilight as she thought about it ‘Each of my friends were doing what they do best. When Rarity went looking for gems, her gem finding spell led to a large rock, much to her disappointment. Fluttershy was among the animals after she was scared of the Pegasi above her. Applejack wanted a life in the big city, but she had trouble fitting in, I was struggling to perform a spell that was part of my entrance exam to Celestia’s school. Pinkie Pie worked for a living at a rock farm but she was miserable, and Rainbow Dash tried to out fly the Pegasi fillies that bullied Fluttershy.’

‘Interesting,’ said Luke as he looked at her ‘What happened next?’

‘When Rainbow Dash outraced the bullies,’ said Twilight ‘She flew so fast, she created a Sonic Rainboom. Picture a Sonic Boom, but with a rainbow trail that’ll follow. As she flew, half of us heard the explosions and saw the Rainbow. Applejack saw the rainbow and it led her back home, making her realize she was meant to be there. Pinkie saw the rainbow and she felt so much joy seeing the colors, she wanted to share it with others. The explosion allowed the rock in front of Rarity to split in two, revealing beautiful gems inside, which she was able to make her latest fashion trends with them, Fluttershy was able to calm the animals down when they were scared of the explosion. And I ended up being so scared I could unleash the full magic inside of me. And simultaneously, we all got our Cutie Marks.’

‘And many years later,’ said Celestia when she decided to tell the story ‘I foresaw that my sister would return after her banishment, but her heart were still filled with Darkness. Twilight foresaw it too, but she was focused on her studies than making friends, but I encouraged her to go to Ponyville to prepare for the celebration.’

‘She met her friends one by one,’ said Spike when he decided to walk with them ‘Though she refused to mingle with them. When Nightmare Moon came back, Twilight figured out where the elements of harmony were stored, so she, with the accompaniment of her friends, went to the Castle of the Two Sisters, where the Elements have been stored. After going through certain trails, her friends were able to wake up the magic of friendship inside of her and they was able to free Luna from her darkness and restore her to her former glory.’

‘I see,’ said Luke, fascinated on the inside when he heard them tell their story ‘So you lot were fated to be together after all.’

‘That’s right,’ said Twilight, until she felt embarrassed as she said ‘Though, I wished I had listened to Celestia and made friends like she wanted me to do.’

‘You must never close yourself like that Twilight,’ said Luke, gaining her attention. ‘The Jedi once believed that they needed to conceal themselves from the outside worlds and it ended up costing their lives. But if a Jedi must understand of how to help those in need, they need to live among them, not desert them. For how can one expect one to help those in need if you do not know how they think.’

Luke then looked at Twilight ‘Just like you can ask yourself; how can one learn to rule its people if one does not know its people. If you know how they think or act, then you will understand them in a much more deeper level. And therefore, when the time is right, then you will be able to lead them in ways you’ve never imagined.’

Twilight was both fascinated and inspired by his words. she smiled and said ‘Thank you Master Skywalker. I understand.’

‘Please,’ said Luke with a chuckle ‘Call me Luke.’

‘Princess Twilight!’ called out Yona ‘Yona see village.’

All of them walked up the hill that Yona called out from. And when they got up top, they noticed many buildings that nearly resembled to Ponyville’s buildings, but were designed to be much more simpler and more manageable for everypony.

‘Wow,’ said Spike as he looked at them ‘Those buildings almost reminds me of Ponyville.’

‘The construction and architecture does have a resemblance.’ said Twilight as she took a good look at it.

‘Course it does,’ said Applejack ‘Mah family and Stinking Rich were the ponies that helped made their first settlements after all.’

‘So where do you think we should search?’ asked Starlight.

‘If the contents that revealed its clues to us of the location of the Temple were located in both the castle of the Unicorns and the mountain palace of the Pegasi,’ said Luke as he thought out loud ‘Maybe we can find some clues of the Temple from the ruler’s home.’

‘Chancellor Pudding head’s home might be a good place to start.’ said Pinkie Pie.

‘A wise decision, it would make things much easier.’ said Luna.

‘Still,’ said Starswirl as he thought out loud ‘It wouldn’t hurt to look around a bit more to cover more ground.’

‘Perhaps Secretary Smart Cookie’s home?’ said Rockhoof ‘If I were in charge of my home and had important information, I would also give that to my second in command in case things don’t work out the way it should.’

‘Then we’ll split up from here.’ said Luke ‘The Princesses and I will go and look for what we need at the Chancellor’s home, Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Rockhoof will go to the Secretary’s home whilst the rest will search the entire area to cover more ground.’

‘Sounds good to me,’ said Rainbow ‘It means more sky to cover.’

Luke then wondered something, and looked at Fluttershy. ‘Excuse me, Fluttershy, is it?’

Fluttershy squeaked a bit, but responded with a ‘Um, yes.’

‘From what I’ve seen or heard, you are good with animals, correct?’ said Luke as he stood on his one knee to be at an eye level with her.

‘Um, yes?’

‘If you think it’s possible,’ said Luke ‘Maybe you can ask the animals around these parts for help, see if they had seen anything unusual.’

‘Oh,’ said Fluttershy as she smiled ‘I can do that.’

‘Very well then,’ said Celestia after Luke stood up ‘Let us be on our way then.’

Sure enough, all of them journeyed their separate ways to find what they would be looking for.

‘Wow Luke,’ said Twilight as she and the princesses walked with Luke ‘I’m quite impressed. Fluttershy was always so nervous around new folks, but the way you spoke and asked for her help, it’s quite impressive.’

‘I merely asked her for her aid because she also wanted to do her part,’ said Luke ‘But I sensed that she would be afraid considering what we encountered at the previous tombs. So I simply chose to have her do a role she’s comfortable with. When I saw her handle her animals with care, I realized that she would be more comfortable for asking the animals around here for information, considering that the animals’ ancestors lived around here.’

‘That is truly a unique observation.’ said Celestia with a smile.

‘Indeed,’ said Luna ‘It is rare to find those who carefully observes those around them, besides Twilight of course.’

‘My master once told me to be mindful of the Force,’ said Luke as he remembered his old lessons. ‘He even once told me “Do or do not, there is no try”. ’

‘What does that mean?’ asked Twilight as she looked at Luke.

‘You know when I first met him, and he once said that to me, it didn’t make any sense afterwards.’ said Luke, remembering the times he spent training under Yoda. ‘But as I got older, I realized what he meant. He made me realized that I wasn’t trying to be a Jedi. Because if all I did was try, then I wouldn’t be able to believe in myself, so from that day on, I would try to accomplished where others couldn’t. And if I couldn’t, they couldn’t, but there is no try.’

Luke then looked at Twilight as he said ‘And from what I had sensed, you attempted to try and teach your first student, and another who were once Celestia’s apprentice, on what you knew, but you were conflicted, afraid that you would fail and disappoint those around you.’

Twilight was surprised that he knew that, then lowered her head as she thought about the times she taught Starlight. ‘Yes. After I convinced Starlight and Sunset Shimmer to give Friendship another chance, I was afraid they would fall back to their old habits, but I had to try and teach them what I knew about Friendship. There were times that I was afraid that I would fail them, that I wouldn’t be strong enough to be their teacher and them as my students. I couldn’t fail them, not after the promise I made to myself; to be there for them when they needed a friend the most.’

Celestia and Luna were surprised to hear this, for this was the first time they heard Twilight say that. Luke then placed his hand on her shoulder, gaining her attention as she looked at him.

‘And from what I’ve seen, you accomplished well on what you intended to do.’ said Luke as he smiled whilst he spoke to her after she told him on how she felt. ‘You may have doubted yourself as a teacher, but you must also know that failure can be part of a lesson too. I know you don’t want to fail, but if you do not fail, then how can you learn to not make the same mistakes and grow into what you were meant to be. And if you can share that with others, then they can understand. From what my master told me, what I will tell you; the power of your friendship is strong within others, and you should continue to pass on what you have learned.’

Luke then removed his hand from her shoulder, as he said ‘How others can grow and evolve, is the responsibility of all great masters.’

Twilight slowed down a bit whilst Luke walked up ahead, when she suddenly felt Celestia’s hoof on her shoulder. ‘Truly he will make a great Jedi Master.’

‘Indeed,’ said Luna ‘He may not have trained any Jedi yet, but from the words he used, that is true wisdom right there.’

Celestia then looked at Twilight ‘I hope you will take this lesson to heart Twilight.’

Twilight couldn’t help but smile as he said ‘I most definitely will.’

They continued down the path, until they were finally able to find a very large house. To Twilight’s surprise, it nearly resembled to Ponyville’s mayoral building. ‘Wow, this kind of reminds me of Ponyville’s town hall.’

‘Do you think we will find any answers there?’ asked Luna.

‘We can hope your highness.’ said Luke, allowing himself to take the first step as he made towards his house.

As Luke approached the house, he gently pushed the door, only for it to crumble. Understandable, considering that the houses hadn’t been touched for a thousand years. They walked inside and looked around, the place may have decayed, but it was still thankfully sturdy.

‘We shall need to split up,’ said Luke ‘I will look upstairs on the Chancellor’s quarters.’

‘We shall search below.’ said Celestia.

‘Hopefully they have a library.’ said Twilight, muttering under hear breath ‘Or at least a study.’

Sure enough, they left separately and tried to look what they are looking for. As Luke climbed onto the stairs, he eventually made his way to the Chancellor’s bedroom. He opened the door and saw that the room was in the same sorry state.

‘For a race of Ponies who once lived here and other places a long time ago,’ said Luke to himself as he stepped inside ‘I’m surprised that a handful of them didn’t stay behind to preserve their former kingdoms when Equestria was founded.’

Luke walked to the center of the room, wondering where he should search next. He closed his eyes and used the Force. He continued to be silent for the next five minutes, until finally, he sensed something. It may be faint, but it’s better than nothing. He looked near the bed and noticed that there was a lamp desk next to it. He walked over and, thinking that the drawers might be stuck, used the Force to pull it out. Luke looked inside of it and saw something that caught his attention.

‘Hmm, what’s this?’ said Luke as he reached his hand into it.

He pulled out what appeared to be a medallion, but it was only half of one. There was some writing on it, but he didn’t recognize it. It was nearly the same universal language as the First Jedi, but it was mixed up with something else as well.

‘This might be important,’ said Luke as he placed the medallion piece back in his pocket. ‘I’d better see how Twilight and the others are doing.’

Luke left the room and went back downstairs. As he was down below, he saw Celestia and Luna searching through the belongings and books. ‘Find anything your majesties?’ asked Luke.

‘So far nothing.’ said Luna.

‘And you Master Skywalker?’ asked Celestia.

Luke pulled out the half of the medallion and showed it to them whilst he said ‘I found this upstairs whilst I was looking, it might be important.’

Luke placed it back in his pocket whilst Celestia asked ‘Does something ail you?’

‘I thought to myself,’ said Luke as he looked at them ‘When the Pony Tribes founded Equestria and moved there, I’m surprised there weren't any who stayed behind to preserve them.’

‘Perhaps the ponies of old think it would be best to leave things behind,’ said Luna ‘Being around places like these must make them remember their old hatreds for one another.’

‘Oh?’ asked Luke.

‘Before Canterlot became our kingdom’s capitol,’ said Celestia, ‘Our old castle once resided within the Everfree Forest, but after my sister was turned to darkness and her banishment, I chose to live in Canterlot once it was finished with its construction, as did she, so that we would no longer remember the moments that robbed us of one another.’

‘I see.’ said Luke.

‘Luke,’ called out Twilight, ‘Could you and the princesses come over here please?’

Sure enough, Luke rejoined with Twilight at the Chancellor’s study. They found it was large enough for a worthy study room. ‘Did you find anything Twilight?’ asked Celestia.

‘I sure have princess,’ said Twilight as she showed them ‘According to this, the Earth Ponies had constructed to what they would call a vault, where they would store as much seeds and food as possible. However, by the time Equestria had been founded, they abandoned that idea.’

‘To which we assume they might have used that vault to store whatever secret the First Jedi left behind.’ said Luna as she tried to piece things together.

‘It could be possible,’ said Twilight as she looked at them ‘I mean what else could they have put in there?’

Celestia noticed that Luke looked troubled. ‘Something wrong?’

‘I’m just concerned what we might find in there.’ said Luke.

‘Come on,’ said Twilight as she shrugged off Luke’s worry ‘We can handle any measly traps.’

‘He is not referring to the traps Twilight,’ said Luna ‘He is concerned of what ancient foe from the past would reside there.’

‘Oh, right.’ said Twilight as he felt embarrassed ‘Forgot about that.’

‘What I do not understand is why the tombs are filled with so much danger?’ said Luna as she was curious about something.

‘It is to test them,’ said Luke, gaining their attention ‘The Force is making any individual, those who are worthy to learn the secrets of the Force and to restart the Jedi Order, they intend to test them, to see if they are worthy to carry the mantle of the Jedi Order.’

‘Why can’t the ways of the Jedi be easy?’ said Twilight in a muttered tone.

Luke overheard her as he said ‘If the way of the Jedi were easy, there’d be millions of us instead of over thousands.’

‘Could they simply not unite?’ said Luna ‘The Jedi and Sith serve both the light and dark, but they also use the Force, so why do they not unite under one banner?’

‘They tried that once,’ said Luke, remembering the Jedi history ‘When both the Empire and Republic of old were threatened by the Eternal Empire, Force users like them, but wielding neither light or dark. They even served the Emperor of the Eternal Empire, who was the reincarnated Emperor of the Sith. The remnants of both the Republic and the Empire worked together. However, by the time the Eternal Empire had been defeated, the Empire and the Republic wanted to use the fallen Eternal Empire’s resources to rebuild what they lost, they fought over it, and sure enough, the Empire and Republic were at odds again until the Empire had fallen.’

‘I see.’ said Luna as she partially felt conflicted over this.

‘Come,’ said Celestia as she looked at the others. ‘We should go find the others, perhaps they too have found what we’re looking for.’

Sure enough, they left Pudding head’s home to rejoin the others. They exited his home, and were greeted by Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Rockhoof.

‘Oh, did you girls find anything?’ asked Twilight.

‘Not much ah’m afraid.’ said Applejack.

‘We searched the Secretary’s home for clues,’ said Rockhoof ‘But from what we could guess, the Chancellor didn’t trust anypony to do the job what others required them to do.’

‘We did find this though.’ said Pinkie Pie as she held onto a medallion, but half of one.

‘Wait,’ said Luke when he recognized it ‘May I?’

‘Oh, of course.’ said Pinkie Pie as she gave the half of the medallion to Luke.

Luke pulled out the other half he has in his possession. They do look similar whilst he observed them. When he placed them together, they clicked, merging them into one, as it became an actual key to be used.

‘So they separated the key.’ said Luke as he observed it ‘But what for?’

‘Maybe this’ll help.’ said Pinkie Pie as she held onto a scroll using her mane. ‘We found it underneath a bed that had a secret cabinet inside.’

‘Thankfully I was able to read it.’ said Rockhoof.

‘That’s right,’ said Applejack ‘Rockhoof translated that the First Jedi asked the ponies to separate the keys and hid them in different places.’

‘And that’s not all,’ said Rockhoof ‘According to the scroll, after the First Jedi hid their secrets, they asked the pony tribes to abandon their homes because they were worried that their fellow ponies would become obsessed with its secrets, so they left to ensure that nopony else would get their hooves on it.’

‘Hmm,’ said Twilight as she placed her hoof against her chin when she thought about the last bit that Rockhoof said ‘Well that would explain why the Pony Tribes left their homes and went to live in Equestria.’

‘But now another question remains.’ asked Luna.

‘Where the location of the vault might be.’ added Luke, figuring out what Luna meant.

‘Um, I can help with that.’ said Fluttershy as she came flying in.

‘Did you find out anything about the animals?’ asked Celestia.

‘Oh, of course Princess Celestia.’ said Fluttershy. ‘The animals told me that their ancestors indeed did see the first Jedi, and some of them went to follow them out of curiosity.’

‘And they know the secret location of that there vault?’ asked Applejack.

‘Mm-hmm,’ said Fluttershy ‘They even want to take us there now.’

‘Then lead the way Fluttershy.’ said Luke, allowing Fluttershy to lead the way whilst Twilight used her horn to send out a signal and summoned everyone back to their location.

Sure enough, after much traveling, they were at the outskirts of the town, where they would encounter what one would mistake for a Pharaoh’s tomb. ‘Is this the entrance to the next tomb?’ asked Somnambula.

‘It should be,’ said Twilight as she took a good look at it ‘The parchments said that they planned to store their food in there, but they converted it into something else before they left.’

‘Well then, there’s only one way to find out.’ said Luke. He suddenly handed the key over to Rainbow Dash, which surprised her.

‘Really?’ asked Dash whilst she was surprised.

‘Of course,’ said Luke ‘I saw it in your eyes. You used to go through an adventure like this before. So it would only be fair if you took the lead on this one.’

Rainbow nearly both squealed and neighed in excitement at the same time. She grabbed it and pretended to be Daring Do as she slowly observed the walls. After a thorough look, she found a spot to where to put the key in. She placed the key onto the hole, allowing it to click a few times. The key was immediately dropped, whilst the large doorway revealed itself as it showed them the way to where they needed to go.

Rainbow nearly squealed out loud in excitement, as she said ‘This almost feels like the book “Daring Do and the Hidden Vaults”, but in person.’

‘The way’s been revealed.’ said Stygian. Until he suddenly got nervous as he said ‘So…who’s going first?’

‘I’ll do it.’ said Rainbow Dash, until she felt her tail getting tugged on by Applejack.

‘Hold on there partner.’ said Applejack when she got Rainbow to sit down ‘We don’t need y’all to run off like that and nearly get yer self killed like last time.’

‘I shall go in,’ said Luke ‘There is no need for anyone to risk their lives here.’

Twilight placed her hoof against Luke’s leg, gaining his attention as he said ‘I’ll go too. I won’t risk losing a friend.’

‘I shall come too.’ said Starswirl ‘We will scout on ahead and clear the way if there are any traps.’

‘Very well Starswirl.’ said Princess Celestia as she and the others decided to wait ‘We shall wait here until you have need of us.’

That said, Luke, Twilight and Starswirl walked down the stoned stairway to wherever it might take them. As they had reached the bottom of the stairs, Starswirl and Twilight noticed the lanterns against the wall, allowing them to illuminate them with fire, allowing more torches to be set alight.

‘So far so good.’ said Twilight.

‘Indeed.’ said Starswirl as he looked ahead ‘I fear what traps might lie ahead once we continue towards our intended path.’

Luke called out ‘It looks all clear from here!’

Everyone else from outside rejoined them as they climbed down the stairs.

They proceeded into walking down the hall, making their way towards to wherever it might lead them. But as they walked, they saw plenty of empty rooms, each of them written in old Ponish, but thankfully, the Pillars could make out what they said. Each room was meant to store what Twilight had read about.

‘Wow, look at this,’ said Twilight ‘The Earth Pony Tribes really were going to built a place to store everything.’

‘Aye, look at this,’ said Rockhoof as he read the signs ‘Seed storages for fruit and vegetables, storages for blankets, equipment, building material, the works.’

‘I suppose we have the uniting tribes to thank for that.’ said Mage Meadowbrook.

‘Or the First Jedi.’ said Spike.

Twilight nearly wanted to laugh, but snickered instead. ‘Oh please Spike, there’s no way they would’ve…’

‘I’m sticking to the First Jedi.’ said Spike as he pointed at the wall.

As they looked at what Spike was looking at, all of them, except for Luke, were surprised. For in the left part of the wall, were Princess Platinum, Advisor Clover the Clever, Chancellor Pudding Head, Secretary Smart Cookie, Commander Hurricane and Private Pansy, standing before the first Jedi, as the one in the center, pointed at the lands and beyond, revealing to be Equestria, then at the right, were the six ponies as they signed a treaty, with the first Jedi helping them with negotiations. Then finally, where the leaders of the Pony tribes bowed to the first Jedi, with what appeared to be the clues that they witnessed earlier, whilst the first Jedi bowed to them back before they returned to their ship and left the world.

Many stared at it in awe, with Twilight stuttering and babbled, for she couldn’t believe her eyes from what she was witnessing, even the rest of the ponies and creatures were surprised from what they witnessed.

‘Wait,’ said Sandbar as he stared at it in awe ‘So the First Jedi were the ones that helped the pony tribes unite Equestria?’

Luke examined it for a bit, then gave his observation to them. ‘No. It states here that after Secretary Smart Cookie, Private Pansy and Clover the Clever became friends and convinced their leaders to unite, the First Jedi came along and taught them what they needed to know of how to run a kingdom without interference. They helped them settle at the few places that they would flourish.’

‘Before Discord came along after Celestia and Luna were taught what they needed to know into both running a country and facing Discord.’ said Starswirl whilst he looked at the wall. Then muttered to himself ‘I still cannot believe that Clover would hide something like this from me.’

‘When it comes to secrets Starswirl,’ said Luke ‘We tend to hide them for a reason. If life on this world discovered that there were dangers beyond the stars, imagine the panic and fear that this world will be succumbed to.’

‘Hearing that coming from you,’ said Smolder with crossed arms ‘We believe it.’

‘Hey look,’ said Gallus as he pointed ahead ‘Another door.’

They saw the door straight ahead, same match as the previous ones they visited from before. All of them stood at least a few feet away from the door.

‘Is there another dark presence?’ asked Mage Meadowbrook.

Luke closed his eyes as he tried to sense what lies on the other side, but so far nothing. ‘I do not sense anything. But I have a feeling that we should not let our guard down just yet.’

‘Agreed,’ said Luna as she looked on ahead ‘We should proceed with caution.’

Luke aimed his hand forward and concentrated using the Force. Within a few moments, Luke was able to open the door, allowing them clear passage through there.

‘Let’s get going.’ said Flash Magnus, eager to face for what lies ahead.

The company traveled inside the room, whilst also trying to keep their guard up and trying to be mindful of what’s around them. Well, most of them are mindful.

They continued to look around, trying to determine who they’re going to face next. Luke closed his eyes, trying to feel out with his feelings using the Force.

‘I sense someone nearby.’ said Luke as he opened his eyes.

‘Someone,’ said the being, causing all of them to turn around and look straight ahead. They saw a hooded figure, walking over towards them. But then at last, standing in the light, it revealed herself to be an elderly woman in a black cloak. ‘Or something.’

They were weary of this woman. She may not look much but they could feel what Luke could feel from within this woman…the Dark Side.

‘Who are you?’ said Twilight, when she felt something off about the woman.

‘I was once a Jedi, then a Sith,’ said the elderly woman ‘But to many who knew me, I once traveled with a Jedi who called himself the Exile.’

‘Wait,’ said Luke ‘You’re Kreia, the one who was once the master of Nihilus and Sion.’

‘Indeed I am,’ said Kreia ‘I am surprised you know your history well, considering that both the Emperor and your father destroyed every single clue of Jedi history.’

They were surprised by what she revealed. ‘You know about that?’ said a stunned Silverstream.

‘My dear,’ said Kreia as she kept her arms crossed ‘Though we may be gone and live on in the Force, we see everything what future Jedi and Sith accomplish in their lifetimes.’

‘So you were around when Darth Bane created the Rule of Two?’ asked Stygian whilst he remembered the brief history lesson that Luke had provided.

‘Indeed.’ said Kreia, which some could notice that she had a disappointed tone. ‘Which was also a grave mistake.’

‘A mistake?’ asked Luna.

‘Indeed,’ said Kreia. ‘For the ten thousand Jedi to exist, there were also the same amount with the Sith. But they had fallen to deep in the darkness, which drove them to extinction. There must be balance between the Jedi, and the Sith.’

‘And let them continue to bring ruin to the galaxy?’ said Rainbow Dash ‘Not a chance.’

‘I too once had thought the same thing when I was an archivist of the Jedi,’ said Kreia ‘But overtime, during my exile from both the Jedi and Sith, even my time spent in the netherworld of the Force, it made me realize that without the Jedi and Sith, there can be no balance in the Force. When I first met the Exile, I wanted him to be better than any Jedi. A Grey Jedi, if you will.’

‘Grey Jedi?’ said Luke.

‘A Jedi that focuses his power on both light and dark. They once said that attachments were forbidden and would lead us to the Dark Side. But when a Jedi’s loved one is gone, they should have time to grief and train themselves to be free of that pain so that their loved one can rest in peace. That they should allow to be in love and have friends. That was why I traveled with the Exile, so that he could not only grow as a grey Jedi, but as a person, so that he could live the life that he always had with them. Even if they had not recognized that trait until now.’

‘You expect us to believe that?’ said Twilight ‘You were once a Jedi, you walked the path of darkness, how can any of us be sure what you say is the truth?’

‘The Force had shown us many things young one.’ said Kreia ‘Many things that would help shape both the fate and future of the Galaxy. But think about it, when the Jedi are in danger, they could sense the danger in an instant and it would help them prepare for things to come. However, before this so called, “Order 66” came along, the Force did not warn them, only a handful that the Force had warned so that they could survive. A handful of them that you know. After all, the eldest copy of the warrior of old once accompanied those who survived. They were not around because none of them were meant to bring balance to the Force.’

‘Not around?’ asked Spike ‘What happened to them?’

‘What didn’t happen?’ asked Kreia ‘Over the years, many perished, and those who did survive chose to stay in hiding and hope they would be left forgotten. But even when they lost hope in saving the Galaxy, the so called Empire would continue to hunt them down without a moment’s hesitation.’

‘But why wouldn’t the so called Force not want the remaining Jedi to help bring peace to the Galaxy?’ asked Rainbow Dash.

‘Because they were not meant to bring balance to the Force.’ said Kreia as she pointed a few things out ‘That responsibility lies with Skywalker here.’

‘With me?’ asked Luke, whilst he was surprised to hear this.

‘Indeed,’ said Kreia ‘Did you think your father was the only one who was conceived with the Force?’

‘Conceived by the Force?’ said Twilight ‘I’ve never heard of that.’

‘Nor should you,’ said Kreia ‘The living Force can help either give life or destroy, yes, but when it comes to the fate of the galaxy that is in need of balance, the living Force chooses whom to conceive, so that the very individual would be tasked into bringing balance to the Force. There were a handful of Jedi who were once conceived the same way.’

‘Father was not the only one?’ said Luke within his thoughts.

‘Like who?’ asked Princess Luna.

Kreia told them as she said ‘There was a Jedi whose name had been forgotten throughout history, that defeated the first Sith Lord. Then there were even two other Jedi that the two of you know. Both Revan…and the Exile.’

‘So you went along with the exile because he was conceived with the Force?’ asked Meadowbrook.

However, Rainbow remembered when Luke’s father was turned to the Dark Side because of the Emperor, and she harshly asked ‘Were you trying to turn him into a Sith?’

‘No.’ said Kreia ‘When I first met him, he still had his teachings of the Jedi, but because of the Battle for Malachor V, something scarred him from within his soul and his ability to use the Force. I merely wanted him to grow as a person.’

‘As a person?’ asked Twilight.

‘The Jedi that were wiped out now?’ said Kreia as she tried to clue them in ‘This is not the first time that both Jedi and Sith were nearly driven to extinction.’

They were a bit surprised by this information. ‘What do y’all mean?’ asked Applejack.

‘When both sides continued to fight one another,’ said Kreia ‘One side had fallen, but within a few decades to a millennium, they always rise again. The Sith defeated, they thought they were gone, but then they came back stronger than ever. The same can be said for the Jedi. Both sides doing this to one another again and again. Yet for all their efforts, it were all in vain, for no matter how hard one tries, the other slowly falls under its thrall.’

‘So all of them are caught in an endless cycle?’ asked Starlight.

‘Yes,’ said Kreia ‘To ensure that there would be balance in the Force. But if either side would become too powerful, then the other will tilt the balance the other way. It had been written since the birth of both sides and will remain so until a proper path could be found, where the new Jedi would follow the light, but would also have families of their own. And when they fall or pass, they would grief, but would also keep their emotions in check.’

‘Is that what you wanted before Darth Nihilus and Darth Sion’s defeat?’ asked Luke.

‘Indeed. I too once walked the path of the Jedi, but the power of the Dark Side brought me down a much darker path, one that Revan once followed before he was gone.’

‘And what about Nihilus and Sion?’ asked Twilight. ‘Were they the reason you chose to fight with the Exile?’

‘In a matter of speaking.’ said Revan. ‘Let me show you.’

Kreia waved her hand, revealing a new environment. All of them were in what appeared to be a sanctum, as the floor was red, as if it was glowing. But from all around it were eight giant bended spikes, formed into a circle. They could feel a dark presence there that would make any mortal being afraid beyond their imagination.

But from the one side of the room, was a shrouded being walking towards the center. When they looked, they saw that the woman was Kreia, many years ago. They saw her walking until she stood at the center of the temple.

‘There are dark places in the galaxy where a few tread.’ said Kreia as she began her tale ‘Ancient centers of learning, of knowledge. But I did not walk alone. To be united by hatred is a…fragile alliance at best.’

Then they saw them, both Nihilus and Sion, coming from different rooms as they made their way towards Kreia. She just stood there as she waited for them to come as Kreia said ‘But my will was not law. There were disagreements. Ambition.’

Sion stood near her and activated his Lightsaber, as did Kreia whilst she looked at him, with Nihilus approaching last as Kreia said ‘And hunger for power.’

Kreia stood there, waiting for any of them to make a move, so that she could defend herself. But just before she could do anything, Nihilus used Force Push to push her against the wall, making her collapse as she sat on the ground.

‘There are techniques within the Force,’ said Kreia as they saw Sion walking towards her, then stood above her as she said ‘Against which there was no defense.’

They saw her trying to use the Force to pull her Lightsaber to her, but she was too weak, whilst she lowered her hand. Sion however, was not merciful. He grabbed her face as she groaned in pain, then thrashed her against the wall. He then kneed her, punched her, grabbed her neck and lifted her in the air, making her desperately trying to breathe. Then Sion threw her hard onto the ground, knocking her unconscious whilst the others were shocked when they saw what happened to her.

‘I was cast down,’ said Kreia as they watched Kreia’s past self out cold as she was now beaten and defeated, whilst both her former students stood over her, knowing that they had just secured their future. ‘Stripped of my power. Exiled. I suffered…indignities. And fell into darkness.’

As the images faded away, everyone, who were still shocked to discover what she went through, focused on Kreia as she finished her tale.

‘Learn from me. My mistakes.’ said Kreia ‘And use that knowledge to become greater than I. That is all I ask of you, and that is all I desire. All my hopes and the hopes of Jedi’s past, rests in you. For the future. For the Force.’

‘I understand.’ said Luke ‘When I began my journey as a Jedi, I was afraid that I would walk down the same path as my father, who turned to the Dark Side for the wrong reasons. Though he had good intentions of saving my mother, he allowed the Emperor to manipulate him and turned him against the Order who took him in, betrayed everything what they stood for, and dishonored the Jedi Order.’

Luke then looked at Kreia as he said ‘But the moment when I met the inhabitants of this world, I realized that the Jedi were wrong. When we began, we were given the chance of peace and tranquility, and ended up denying loving our friends and families, including wanting to have children of our own. It is what we do with our anger that is important. Though I was angry when my father wanted my sister to walk the same path he did, I then realized that if I ended up like him, I would’ve suffered just as much as he did. But then I remembered that it was my friends that helped me through my dark moments.’

He then gestured to his new friends as he said ‘And I have them to thank for showing me. Honesty, Loyalty, Generosity, Kindness and Laughter, even Magic. It made me think that the Jedi needs to go down a new path. We would stay true to protecting the Republic, but we would also grow as people, who in turn, would protect their friends and families. And that we need to control our emotions when it comes to that. We may have the right to be angry, sad, or anything above, but we cannot feed that emotion, otherwise we would not be better than the ones who came before us.’

‘Then you truly are the future of the galaxy.’ said Kreia as she walked over to Luke and stood next to him. ‘You will help create new Jedi, one that is balanced between light and dark, ones that vow to fight for the rights of others, and would also love, not deny them.’

Kreia placed her hand on Luke’s shoulder, and said to him ‘May the Force be with you Skywalker.’

And in that moment, Kreia faded away as if she had never existed, much to the others’ surprise, whilst the doors were slowly being opened, allowing them access to where they needed to go.

When they went inside, they thought it would be useless. But when they were inside, there were records of half of the worlds the First Jedi went to. Each of the records were from each world, their maps, their star charts, and everything else that were helpful on their journeys.

‘Amazing,’ said Stygian as he inspected one of them ‘Their methods were like of the Mighty Helm.’

‘Aye, it’s true.’ said Rockhoof when he inspected the maps too ‘I recognize the methods my people had performed anywhere.’

Luke on the other hand were focused on the large stone coffin ahead. He used the Force to open it, allowing the lid to open itself. He walked towards it and discovered a double bladed Lightsaber, but that can fold itself as if they were a make shift bo-staff. He placed it at the back of his belt and pulled out a metallic cylinder. He opened it and pulled open the scroll.

‘What does it say Master Luke.’ said Luna as she and Celestia stood near him.

‘According to this,’ said Luke ‘After the first Jedi had placed the first three clues in this world in the homelands of the Original Pony Tribes, they hid them in a world that’s accessible to a Forest, which lead to a deserted island. But to their surprise, the ponies that traveled with them, transformed into human like beings like them. Detecting similarities, but also some differences too.’

Twilight instantly clicked and smiled widely, realizing what they were talking about. ‘I know where they are!!’ shouted Twilight.

They looked at Twilight with flexed eyebrows, with her giggling nervously. ‘Ahem, sorry.’

‘You know where the next clue leads?’ asked Luke.

‘I sure do.’ said Twilight. ‘In fact, it’s the same place that Sunset Shimmer resides.’

Many, even the Princesses were surprised. ‘They’re in the human world?’ said Starlight.

‘They are sure are.’ said Twilight. ‘And we’d better get going. Come on!!’

Twilight ran out of the room to lead them, causing many others to follow her suit, even Luke.

‘She sure is an eccentric one, isn’t she?’ said Luke.

‘Indeed,’ said Celestia with a smile ‘Which is why I’m proud to call her my pupil every day.’

All of them ran out, hoping that Twilight can explain what she can theorize.

Chapter 9: Journey to the other side

Sure enough, after a long flight back to Ponyville, everyone entered Twilight’s castle. Luke was impressed by the architecture of the place as he said ‘This is quite an impressive Castle you have here.’

‘Thank you,’ said Twilight ‘I had trouble trying to make it my home ever since my old one got destroyed. But thanks to my friends, I was able to adjust to it very well.’

They entered another room, where the magic mirror had been placed, with Twilight showing it to him. ‘Through here.’

‘The mirror?’ asked Luke.

‘Do not let its appearance fool you Master Skywalker.’ said Celestia as she stood next to him. ‘This is actually a portal that leads to another world, paralleled to our own. In this world we are ponies, but our other selves are human.’

‘And you know about this world?’ asked Luke.

‘Indeed,’ said Celestia ‘My former student, Sunset Shimmer, learned so much about magic like Twilight. Unfortunately she wanted shortcuts and wanted to be a Princess too, which she wasn’t ready to be. So I denounced her as my student and forbade her to coming into the castle again. But by the time she was being escorted, she escaped through the mirror. But then it closed for another thirty moons, unable for me to go after her, or for her to come back home.’

‘When she stole my crown,’ said Twilight ‘I followed her there, only to discover she became a bully and drove everyone apart and ruined their friendships. So when I got there, I was able to reunite them. But she used the power of my crown to turn herself into a monster. And if it weren't for my new friends there, I wouldn’t have been able to stop her and restored her. So she chose to remain there to make up for her mistakes.’

‘And you’re still in contact with her?’ asked Luke.

‘Yes,’ said Twilight ‘We wrote to each other every now and then, and I was able to find a way to keep the portal open so that either of us could come visit.’

She then blushed as she admitted something else ‘Although, I wished I could’ve learned on how to control my human appendages a lot better than most.’

‘So we’re going to travel through the mirror?’ asked Rainbow ‘Cool.’

Luke then thought about something. If what he read was correct, they would transform into humans on the other side, but to be on the safe side, he contacted R2 as he said ‘Artoo, do you still have that portable satellite with you?’

R2 beeped a couple of times, confirming what Luke had said. ‘Could you bring it here please.’

R2 beeped as he said that he will do so. ‘What are you planning Master Skywalker?’ asked Luna.

‘Call it a hunch your highness.’ said Luke.

Sure enough, R2 arrived with what appeared to be a small portable satellite, causing them to be curious, but allowed Luke to perform his hunch.

‘Ready Artoo?’ asked Luke, causing R2 to beep in confirmation. ‘Then go ahead.’

Sure enough, R2 headed straight for the mirror, causing him to through it as he disappeared in a flash. Through the portal between Equestria and his destination, R2 screeched as if he was frightened, for he never experienced something like that before.

At the doors of a familiar school, known as Canterlot High, many students were going towards the school, whilst six familiar girls stood near the entrance, waiting for someone.

‘Where could she be?’ asked a certain country girl, known as Applejack’s human counterpart.

‘Oh my, you don’t think something happened, did you?’ asked a shy girl, who is known as Fluttershy’s human counterpart.

‘She probably overslept her alarm again.’ said a certain rainbow haired girl, who is known as Rainbow Dash’s human counterpart.

When all a sudden, a certain girl came running, exhausted as she ran towards them. She stopped herself and panted a bit, nearly being out of air and all. ‘Sorry I’m late,’ said a fiery headed girl, known as Sunset Shimmer ‘I almost overslept.’

‘Told ya.’ said human Rainbow Dash.

‘Now why would you almost be late darling?’ said a certain Fashionista, who is known as Rarity’s human counterpart.

‘She’s right,’ said a certain Brainiac of the group, who is known as Twilight’s human counterpart ‘You’re usually on time on a lot of things.’

‘Fell asleep doing my homework last night.’ said Sunset, until her stomach growled, gaining their attention whilst she held onto her stomach as she felt embarrassed ‘I was also in such a hurry, I kinda missed breakfast.’

‘No worries Sun/Shim’ said a certain poofy haired girl, who is known as Pinkie Pie’s human counterpart, whilst she handed a couple of breakfast muffins and some coffee to her ‘I gotcha covered.’

Sunset smiled and accepted them as she said ‘Thanks Pinkie Pie.’

‘Come on,’ said human Twilight ‘We’d better get going or we’re going to miss first period.’

But just as they climbed the stairs, the portal to Equestria suddenly shimmered, gaining Spike’s attention, surprising him when he realized something was coming through. Spike barked to get their attention, which it worked.

‘What is it…?’ said Twilight, but was stopped when she and the others instantly looked at the portal.

‘What in tarnation?’ said Applejack when she was surprised to see what was coming.

The portal shimmered for a few moments, until a certain droid, aka R2, popped right out of it as he pushed the portable satellite, surprising all of them as they couldn’t believe what they saw.

‘Is that a robot?’ asked Sunset.

R2 stopped at the center between the portal and CHS’ entrance, allowing him to program the satellite to do its work. Within a few seconds, the portable satellite launched it in the air, allowing it to fly towards space, surprising the girls when they saw the satellite flying up the sky. The satellite soon stopped the moment it was in outer space. It scanned the stars, allowing it to transfer data to R2 so that he could send it to Luke. After it was done, R2 turned around and went for the portal.

Rainbow Dash used her speed to quickly dash towards the portal and in front of R2 to keep him from escaping, causing him to stop. ‘Whoa there buddy,’ said Rainbow as she spread her arms to stop him ‘You’re not going…’

When all of a sudden, R2 pulled out a taser from its compartment, allowing him to shock Rainbow Dash, making her jump as she shouted ‘Ouch!!’

R2 chuckled as he went through the portal, which gained the others’ attention. ‘Did that robot just laugh?’ said Rarity surprised.

‘Oh my,’ said Fluttershy as she went over to Rainbow Dash. ‘Are you okay Rainbow?’

‘No,’ said Rainbow whilst she was rubbing her thigh ‘I just got zapped by a funny little robot.’

‘And it just went through the portal?’ said Applejack, with Sunset worrying that something might have happened in Equestria.

R2 soon appeared through the portal whilst everyone noticed he came back. ‘Any luck R2?’ asked Luke, causing R2 to beep in confirmation. ‘Good. At least I know now how to get there.’

‘Get where Master Luke?’ asked Fluttershy.

‘You’ll see,’ said Luke as some noticed that he couldn’t contain his smile ‘Come on, we’re going on another trip.’

But just before Twilight was going to question Luke, she heard her journal buzzing, allowing her to levitate it over and opened it.

‘Twilight,’ wrote Sunset as the words appeared on the journal ‘Did something happened in Equestria? I just saw a small robot appear and it suddenly went back? Did you see it?’

Twilight couldn’t help but smirk, seeing that Sunset had just stumbled upon R2. She wrote back as she said ‘I’ll explain as soon as I can Sunset. Right now, something important has happened. I’ll tell you when I get back.’. She then took the journal with her and ran outside to catch up with the others.

Sure enough, everyone entered the ship, with Luke asking R2 ‘Are the coordinates entered in navigations?’

R2 beeped in confirmation, with Luke saying ‘Then we have our way.’

Luke sat down on the pilot’s seat as they followed, with him looking back and said ‘I’d show you something amazing, but the cockpit’s not big enough for everyone, or can’t see what’s going on.’

‘Oh, no problem Luke.’ said Twilight, causing her to cast a spell, allowing the cockpit’s room to be widened, as well as the window, surprising Luke as Twilight said ‘I used a spell to enlarge the room for everyone to fit in. But don’t worry, you ship’s functions haven’t changed, so you won’t be able to have any problems.’

‘Oh, uh, thank you.’ said Luke, who was still surprised to see Twilight do that. As he typed a few buttons, he said ‘Artoo, let’s take off.’

R2 complied as he hacked into the ship to help them fly a bit easier. The ship slowly lifted itself and took off to the blue skies. Everyone watched as they continued to fly to the sky. It remained blue, until it faded away and revealed the darkness and the shining stars, taking them all by surprise when they saw them.

‘Are we…?’ said Twilight as she was surprised to see this.

‘Indeed Twilight,’ said Luke after he let out a chuckle ‘We are in space.’

Many were surprised to see the outer space, which they were still in awe over. As Luke continued to fly, he slowly began to set the coordinates, and as soon as the ship was on its course, Luke couldn’t help but smile as he said ‘You might wanna hang onto something.’

Luke slowly pulled the lever, showing the stars were growing brighter and were going faster, much to everyone’s surprise. And within a split second, the Ebon Hawk jumped through Hyperspace. As it did, it showed a great blue void whilst they saw them travel, taking everyone by surprise.

‘What magic is this?’ said Starswirl as he was taken aback by what he saw.

‘This is called Hyperspace.’ said Luke as he turned his chair around and explained things to them ‘When the galaxy wanted to expand and trade whatever they knew to one another, they developed technology that would allow us to go from one location to another. Without these, it wouldn’t taken us centuries to travel in light-years. But with the Hyper drive, we can now travel in a matter of minutes to a mere hour.’

‘Truly your galaxy has created amazing technology.’ said Celestia as she too was taken by surprised to see what was before her.

‘So where are we going if we aren’t going through the portal?’ said Twilight as she was curious.

‘You’ll see.’ said Luke before he turned his chair and looked at them ‘Do you think you can write to your friend to meet with us?’

Twilight was confused by what he meant, until Luke gestured to the Journal, much to Twilight’s surprise. ‘How did you…?’

‘I can sense the Force emanating through it,’ said Luke ‘Whatever magic you’re using, it must be a way to contact her.’ said Luke.

Twilight couldn’t wipe the look of surprise from her face, but shook her head as she looked at Luke. ‘Wow, you’re good.’

Twilight wrote down on the journal, writing if Sunset and the others have a free period. Once she was done, Sunset responded that they have free period in over an hour. ‘She’ll be available in the hour.’ said Twilight.

‘Tell her to wait outside,’ said Luke as he stood up, then looked at R2 as he said ‘Artoo, keep the ship on course.’

R2 beeped when he responded. ‘Hey, where are you going?’ said Rainbow Dash as she looked at Luke.

‘To meditate,’ said Luke ‘Jedi tend to meditate to seek guidance from the Force in order to find our way.’

Luke stopped for a moment as he looked at them and said ‘Would all of you like to join me? You might learn something.’

‘Oh, of course.’ said Twilight as she and the others followed him.

As they were at the cargo hold, Luke sat down with his legs crossed, with the others joining him as they all sat down.

‘Now, the first thing we need to do is to close your eyes and clear your minds.’ said Luke, whilst at the same time, one by one, all of them began to close their eyes.

‘Just breathe.’ said Luke as he concentrated, with the others trying to do the same, especially Rainbow, considering she’s not the patient type. ‘Reach out with your feelings. Feel what you need to feel. See what you need to see.’

As they kept their eyes closed, they soon began to completely clear their minds and focused on what Luke was trying to show them. ‘What do you see? What do you feel?’

Luke could tell that most of them were having trouble. So he tried a bigger approach. ‘Feel far deeper than you could possibly imagine.’

They continued to keep their eyes closed and focused, teaching them the way of the Force, if what he felt in all of them was true as he instructed them.

‘Feel the stars shining on every corner of the galaxy and beyond.’

They felt every star, even if they were moving fast.

‘Feel every sun and moon from every system, shining brighter than you could’ve imagined.’

They felt the warmth of the sun and the light of the moon.

‘Feel the life of every world they shine upon.’

They felt the life of the planet, as if they were on it.

‘Feel the life on every piece ground of the planet.’

They felt the ground as if they were standing on it.

‘Feel the life of every plant life.’

They felt the plant life as if they were touching it.

‘Feel the life of every ocean.’

They felt the oceans as they crashed on the rocks or on the neighboring islands.

‘Feel the life of every air and wind.’

They felt the air blow on their faces, as if they could literally feel it.

‘But most importantly…feel the life of every living soul, living on their respected worlds, preserving their way of life, or trying to live it.’

They could see every different race throughout the Galaxy, going on with their daily lives.

‘Feel the Force.’

And in that instant, all of them could feel it. All of them could feel every inch of life throughout the galaxy, even every race that they’ve never seen before. From the youth to the old. One by one, all of them slowly opened their eyes as they were widened, amazed even, for what just happened. Sure enough, Luke opened his eyes as he looked at them.

‘This is amazing Tia.’ said Luna as she looked at her sister ‘I could feel it. I could feel all of it.’

Celestia looked at Luke in awe as she said ‘How is this possible?’

‘The Force lives in all of us your highness.’ said Luke ‘It surrounds us, it penetrates us, it binds the galaxy together. And from what I could feel, it’s amazingly strong in all of you.’

Some were puzzled by what he meant, until R2 beeped, indicating that they’re close to their destination, allowing Luke to stand up and walk to the cockpit.

‘What,’ said Rainbow Dash as she looked at him, prompting him to stop and look at her. ‘What do you mean that it’s strong in all of us?’

‘What I’m saying is,’ said Luke ‘If your world was known, your race and those beside them would’ve made excellent Jedi.’

As Luke walked to the cockpit, many looked at him in awe. If it were true, they would make great Jedi.

He soon sat down on his chair in order to take the controls from there. Some accompanied him to the cockpit to see where they would go next. As Luke and R2 drove the ship, they instantly stopped as they dropped out of Hyperspace, revealing a planet that was similar to Equestria, much to the others’ surprise.

‘Wow.’ said Twilight as she kept staring at the planet. ‘I never realized how beautiful this world be when I once visited.’

Luke closed his eyes in order to find Sunset. When he opened his eyes ten seconds later, he turned the ship to the right, heading to the direction Sunset and her friends would be.

At the courtyard during their free period, Sunset and the others sat outside, following Princess Twilight’s instructions.

‘So, remind me again why we’re waiting out here?’ said the human Rainbow Dash whilst she was getting impatient.

‘Princess Twilight told us to meet out here during our free period.’ said Sunset whilst she patiently looks at the journal.

‘Good thing it’s the weekend tomorrow,’ said puppy Spike ‘You guys are luckily free on the weekends.’

‘How do you know that Spike?’ asked the human Twilight.

‘You’re not the only one who looks at a calendar ya know.’ said Spike as he crossed his paws together.

Sunset’s journal began to buzz, gaining her attention, causing her to quickly open up the journal. She then read out loud ‘Look up.’

But just before she was about to, they heard a loud noise. At first they looked around, until Sunset looked up and stared at it in awe. As she stood up, so did her friends the moment they saw it too. For coming from above was none other than the Ebon Hawk. It slowly hovered over the school, causing the others to run. By the time they got there, the Ebon Hawk had landed on the soccer field. At the same time, many more students quickly walked out to see what was going on, as well as stare out at the windows. Principle Celestia and Vice-Principle Luna also got outside and were also stunned when they saw the ship.

‘Is…is that a spaceship?’ said a boy named Micro Chips after he adjusted his glasses right.

The ramp of the ship slowly opened, whilst a light shined through it as well. Out came a shadowy figure. It said ‘Take me to your leader.’

The human Pinkie Pie screamed out of fright as she hid behind Applejack, then shouted ‘Aliens!!’

The figure was silent, until it snickered and snorted, then jumped right out, revealing a certain pink poofy maned Earth Pony.

‘No silly filly, it’s just me, Pinkie Pie!!’ said Pinkie Pie before letting our her cute squee.

‘Oh, never mind them.’ said human Pinkie. The two of them darted towards one another and greeted each other with smiles.

‘Hey Pony me,’ said human Pinkie Pie as she rapidly shook her pony counterpart’s hoof ‘How are things going?’

‘Oh, we just made a new friend that came from the stars that’s trying to rebuild what was lost and told us the secrets he’s looking for is here and we decided to come help out.’ said Pinkie Pie with her usual bubbly self.

Many of the students were stunned to see what was right in front of them as they couldn’t believe their eyes. For there was another Pinkie Pie, but this one is a pony.

‘Huh,’ said one of the bulkier students known as Bulk Biceps ‘That’s something you don’t see every day.’

‘I mean we were also ponies for a while too,’ said another known as Trixie ‘So that’s no surprise there.’

Sure enough, Twilight climbed down through the ramp, much to Sunset’s surprise.

‘Princess Twilight.’ said Sunset as she waved her hand.

‘Sunset.’ said Twilight as she flew over and greeted Sunset with a hug. ‘It’s been a long time.’

‘It sure has.’ said Sunset, but then it finally hit her; Twilight wasn’t turned into a human. ‘Wait, how are you not a human, didn’t you travel through the mirror?’

‘Well no we didn’t, we didn’t even know how this was possible.’ said Twilight.

‘We?’ asked a puzzled Sunset.

‘I…kinda brought some company.’ said Twilight as she pointed at the ship.

One by one, the rest of Twilight’s friends, the Pillars, the Young Six, Spike, even Princess Celestia and Princess Luna climbed out of the ship as they made their way towards the courtyard. The students were all surprised to see more of them.

The Young Six were surprised to see them at first, with Smolder quirking an eyebrow as she said ‘Huh, so that’s the place Twilight told us about.’

Silverstream on the other hand got excited as she said ‘Oh my gosh, humans!!’

Silverstream instantly flew over and greeted them as she said ‘High every creature, it’s nice to meet you. My name is Silverstream.’

Many of the students were in awe to see a live hippogriff right in front of them.

‘Oh, my, gosh.’ said one of the students, which was the human version of Carrot Top. ‘A real life hippogriff.’

Pinkie Pie suddenly popped up, giving some a fright as she said ‘Yup a roomy, and that over there is a griffon, a dragon, a yak and a Changeling. And also the two over there are Alicorn Princesses and those over there are the Pillars of old.’

Sure enough, the students got all excited and gathered near them, wanting to know more about them. Some of the students were around the Mane 6 and Spike as they were fascinated to meet them, even Micro Chips and a handful of smart students were excited to talk to both Starlight and Sunburst.

Some students were also around the Young Six, enjoying to meet them for the first time. The teachers were having some great conversations with Starswirl and his fellow Pillars, as the Principles were talking to the Princesses.

‘So Twilight, what are you doing here? Not that I’m complaining of course.’ said Sunset.

‘Well…’ said Twilight, whilst R2 came out of the ship at the same time.

‘Hey!!’ shouted human Rainbow Dash ‘That’s the same little jerk that stung me!!’

Human Rainbow Dash well, dashed right on over and stood in front of R2 ‘You got some nerve showing up here!!’

‘Do not mind him, for he means well when it comes to a mission.’

Human Rainbow Dash looked up the ramp and were surprised to see Luke. He slowly walked down the ramp and stood next to Twilight with a smile on his face. Human Rainbow Dash slowly stood up and were surprised to see Luke, as well as the rest of Canterlot High when they saw Luke.

‘Twilight?’ asked Sunset when she noticed Luke ‘Who’s that?’

‘That,’ said Twilight as she smiled too ‘Is Luke Skywalker.’

Luke walked towards the others the moment he saw them. He stood in front of Sunset and said ‘Are you Sunset Shimmer?’

Sunset was a little surprised that he knew her name. ‘Uh, yes?’

‘My name is Luke Skywalker,’ said Luke ‘Twilight told me about you and the journey that led you here.’

Sunset felt a bit nervous that Luke would know some of her past. Until he placed his hand on her shoulder, surprising her as she looked at him, and noticed that he was smiling.

‘You have done much of the impossible and made up for your mistakes and you are on the right path.’ said Luke ‘For you are finally at peace with those around you, and you around them.’

Sunset couldn’t help but smile as she blushed, for what he said was truly high praise from him. Principle Celestia walked up to Luke and asked ‘Excuse me, but who are you?’

‘And why are you here?’ asked Vice-Principle Luna, who wondered who this mysterious visitor was.

‘I will explain what I can,’ said Luke ‘But can we talk in a place where we cannot be disturbed?’

The two heads of the school agreed and guided him to the principal’s office. Sunset then walked over to Twilight and asked ‘Twilight, how is this possible, and how are you not a human?’

‘I wondered that myself.’ said Twilight ‘But we have a reason to be here.’

Sure enough, Twilight explained to Sunset and her friends of how they met Luke, and discovered that he came from beyond their stars. She told them the history of the Jedi, the Republic, the Sith and the Empire.

She explained of how the Republic were formed, how the Jedi came to be, how they use a mysterious power called the Force, how some of the Jedi turned to darkness and became the first Sith Lords. Then a Sith named Darth Bane created the Rule of Two, where they would secretly plot their revenge against the Jedi and the Republic. However, as the thousand years of peace was among the Republic, there were still unrest, mainly when a Sith named Sideous was secretly manipulating others.

During the Jedi’s struggle to free a home occupied by the Trade Federation, they met Luke’s father, Anakin Skywalker, who later joined the Jedi ranks as a student. Overtime, the criminal kingpins were close to waging war, so a Chancellor, before he stood down, secretly asked one of the Jedi to help prepare an Army for the Republic, which was an army of Clones, created from the blood of a bounty hunter named Jango Fett.

The Jedi who tried to commission that said army was caught on very quick by a dark lord of the Sith named Sideous, who posed as a Senator. He secretly turned a Jedi named Dooku and killed the Jedi overseeing the project and planted mind control capabilities in their minds. By the time when the armies were ready, they were at war with the Separatists, a group of worlds who defected from the Republic. During the war, Dooku was killed, but in the end, Padme Amidala, Anakin’s wife, was pregnant and would die of childbirth. Sideous used that to his advantage and turned Anakin to the Dark Side. He used both Anakin, now known as Darth Vader, to lead the Clone army to kill the Jedi, using the mind control capabilities, as well as the deaths of many Jedi all over the galaxy.

The two surviving Jedi, Grand Master Yoda and Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, were able to send a message to the surviving Jedi all over the galaxy to stay in hiding, but they had to face the Sith. Yoda tried to stop Sideous, but was forced to flee when it was too much for him. Anakin harmed his wife and Obi-Wan was forced to face him, with Anakin injured beyond recognition. He was donned in new armour and became Darth Vader, whilst Padme died of childbirth after giving birth to Twins, namely Luke and Leia. To protect them, the two of them were separated to different lives in order for them to remain safe from the Sith and the newly formed Empire.

Half the galaxy soon rose up against the Empire, known as the Rebel Alliance, and fought against the Imperials to a standstill. During that time, Luke had soon joined, but not after the death of Obi-Wan. During that time, they continued to fight, but Luke discovered Vader was his father, leaving him distraught.

Sure enough, the Rebellion were able to regroup to mass an attack on the Emperor’s space station, whilst Luke would face his father one more time. After the intense duel, Luke was able to confront his father and defeat him. But just as the Emperor was about to kill him, Luke’s father saved him by sacrificing his life. In the end, Vader was saved and passed away, with Luke giving him a proper burial. The Rebellion on the other hand were finally able to defeat the Empire, freeing the Galaxy from his tyranny.

After they celebrated, Luke set out to rebuild the Jedi Order, but the other temples were a no go, but he discovered that there was a temple somewhere in Equestria. So after he bumped into them, they accompanied him to the original home of the Pony tribes and found so many temples and clues, even many things that were brought from all over the galaxy.

‘So that’s why we’re here.’ said Twilight as she had just finished her story.

The EG Mane 7 were greatly surprised to hear this.

‘Okay, wow.’ said human Rainbow Dash as she was surprised to hear this.

‘Yeah,’ said Applejack ‘We fought the Dazzlings, saved our Twilight from the magic that consumed her, saved Camp Everfree and Gloriosa, stopped Juniper Montage, encountered that there memory stone with Wallflower, that whole business at Equestria Land, the Spring Break Yacht and the music festival. But this is a whole new level.’

‘With an actual alien with us.’ said Pinkie as she held Applejack close.

‘I’m not so sure about that Pinkie,’ said human Twilight ‘He looks more human than any of us here. But I have to agree with Sunset, how come you guys didn’t turn into your human selves when you came here?’

‘I’m not sure about that myself.’ said Twilight as she was lost in thought.

‘I can answer that.’ said Luke as he had just finished talking to Principle Celestia and Vice-Principle Luna. ‘When Princess Twilight mentioned about her friend remaining on another world, I had a theory, so I asked Artoo to deploy a portable satellite to scan the stars and location they were on. After we had the coordinates, we came here via ship.’

Twilight was deep in thought about this, until her eyes widened as she then realized it. ‘So in other words, when we travel through the mirror, which was a gateway to another world.’

Sunset also realized this. The two of them instantly spoke together as they were face to face ‘The mirror as a gateway to other worlds that are beyond the stars. This is amazing!’

Both Rainbow Dash and her human counterpart scoffed as they rolled their eyes, slightly amused as the two said at the exact same time ‘Eggheads.’

‘So why else are you here?’ said Sunset.

‘Well we’ve been following clues that would lead to the location of the Jedi Temple.’ said Sunburst.

‘We followed them from Canterlot and the original homes of the Pony Tribes.’ said Starlight ‘The next clue led us to this world. Luke believes that there is another hidden tomb that would lead them straight to the Jedi Temple.’

‘Why would they come here?’ asked Sunset.

Spike walked over and gave them the scrolls they gathered so far, the one he was lucky enough to translate so that Sunset and the others could read it as he said ‘From what the first Jedi described, they said that they followed the Ponies from the Pony Tribes to this world, saying that no one would find them, considering that this world’s magic would be too weak to use.’

Sunset and the others looked at the scrolls and the clues they went through. ‘Wonder why the Jedi would think hiding them here would be a good idea.’ said human Twilight as she adjusted her glasses.

‘She has a point darlings,’ said human Rarity ‘We had to deal and face every single person who wielded Equestrian Magic because of their own greed, arrogance and jealousy. I could not begin to imagine why anyone would use what knowledge they hid.’

‘Learning the ways of the Force is not an easy feat,’ said Luke ‘Only those who are Force Sensitive, can use it. Light and Dark, it does not matter, power like this falling into the wrong hands could spell disaster to those who couldn’t wield it properly.’

‘I know that feeling.’ said human Twilight, remembering the time she wielded Equestrian Magic because of peer pressure, as well as her unhealthy thirst for knowledge for understanding magic.

‘Nevertheless,’ said Luke as he walked over to a different spot ‘I must consult this with the Force.’

Luke took a few steps, then was able to sit down with both his legs crossed and his hands rested on his knees. He closed his eyes, trying to concentrate with the aid of the Force. Sunset and the others were curious of what he was doing.

‘Uh, what is he doing?’ asked human Twilight.

‘He’s using the Force.’ said Twilight.

‘You sure?’ asked Sunset, feeling a little skeptical.

‘I’ve felt it Sunset.’ said Twilight as she looked at her ‘We all have. It’s incredible. There’s so much life. We could feel an entire galaxy.’

They were greatly surprised by what Twilight had said, until Pinkie pointed out as she said ‘Ooh, he’s all floaty again.’

They saw Luke slowly hovering in the air, whilst he was glowing blue, concentrated as his thoughts were deep enough in the Force, which would allow him to focus on what he is looking for, surprising the EG Mane 7 when they saw Luke floating and glowing like that, for what he did is truly amazing.

After five minutes of floating, Luke finally landed on both his feet and opened his eyes. He walked back over to the group, saying ‘I know where we need to go next.’

‘Where to?’ asked Mage Meadowbrook as she and the others regrouped.

Luke looked at R2 and said ‘Artoo, can you display this world’s map please?’

R2 beeped and displayed a hologram of the entire planet, which took all of them by surprise. Luke looked at the planet as he observed it. He then placed his hand on to the part where they needed to go.

‘We need to be, right here.’ said Luke as he pointed on the map. Within an instant, it showed a map of the entire country.

As the map zoomed in closer, revealing the outskirts of Canterlot City. The map went further down, until finally, it was able to reach to a small area. The EG Mane 7 instantly recognized the place.

‘Camp Everfree?’ said the EG Mane 7 as they were surprised.

‘You know of the place?’ asked Luke.

‘Sure do.’ said human Rainbow Dash ‘That’s where the camp is. We went there last year to relax, then we ended up finding these.’

They showed them their geodes as Sunset explained ‘When we gained them we were able to gain certain abilities.’

‘Certain abilities?’ asked Starswirl as he looked at them ‘What kind of abilities?’

One by one, each of them told them their abilities.

‘I can talk and communicate to animals.’ said human Fluttershy.

‘I can make things explode.’ said human Pinkie pie as she demonstrated by throwing candy in the air.

‘I have super strength.’ said human Applejack.

‘I can make diamond shields.’ said human Rarity as she demonstrates.

‘I can run superfast.’ said human Rainbow Dash as she shows off.

‘I can read people’s thoughts by mere touch.’ said Sunset Shimmer.

‘I can lift things with my magic.’ said human Twilight.

‘Interesting.’ said Stygian when he was fascinated by what he was seeing. ‘Where did they come from?’

Luke sensed something before anyone could give him an answer. He looked at the school, but what he could feel came from the other side.

‘I think I can provide the answer.’ said Luke as he headed straight for the source, gaining the others’ attention.

Sure enough, all of them were at the front of the school. Luke climbed to the top of the pedestal where the Wondercolt statue used to be. He looked at something for a few moments. He then looked at them and said ‘I think I found the source of where your magic came from.’

Sure enough, Sunset, Twilight, Celestia and Starswirl were at the top of the pedestal, looking at what appeared to be a crack. But that’s not what shocked them, what shocked them was the rainbow trail inside.

‘The portal to Equestria!!’ said Twilight.

‘Whatever happened here,’ said Luke as he looked at them ‘At one point it was not working, but after the statue got destroyed and the portal restored, it must’ve began to leak through.’

‘So that’s how Equestrian magic kept appearing all over the place.’ said Sunset as she pounded her fist into her hand ‘The portal must’ve been the one who sent us our geodes to Camp Everfree.’

‘Interesting.’ said Starswirl as he observed it ‘So it would explain how magic was able to exist in this world.’

‘It would explain the handful of threats this world has, as well as when the Storm King’s lightning magic had leaked through to where your spring break happened.’ said Celestia.

‘But how did it arrive at the other side of the world?’ asked Stygian.

‘There’s another portal to Equestria.’ said Sunset ‘On the other side of the world there’s a tropical island. On it is quick sand, which happens to shield the portal to Equestria.’

‘How many portals are there?’ asked Luke.

‘There are a total of thirty two,’ said Starswirl ‘Whilst I built the mirror that would lead to this world, there were many other portals all over Equestria and beyond, all who are connected to this world. I explored it once or twice. Which is why it was the perfect place to banish the Sirens. Although had I known that they would still have some of their magic, I would’ve taken those jewels away from them before they would’ve caused any more damage.’

Luke began to ponder, thinking about the path the first Jedi took. ‘That would explain how the first Jedi easily came to this place and hid their clues and texts here.’

‘So where to now?’ said human Twilight ‘Straight to Camp Everfree?’

‘Yes, that would be wise.’ said Luke as he stood up.

‘Hey Twilight,’ said human Applejack to her friend ‘Y’all better give Timber and Gloriosa a heads up that we’re comin’ over there to check up on something.’

‘Way ahead of you.’ said human Twilight as she quickly answered her phone to call them.

‘Good thing we’re done with school for the day and that tomorrow’s Saturday.’ said Sunset. Then she looked at Twilight and asked ‘When should we get going.’

‘Oh, we can go right now.’ said Twilight as she gestured to the ship.

‘Very well then,’ said Luke ‘Let us be on our way.’

Twilight looked at Celestia and said ‘Don’t worry, we’ll bring them back safe.’

‘I know all of you will.’ said Principle Celestia as she waved goodbye ‘Good luck.’

Sure enough, all of them departed and headed straight for the Ebon Hawk, where the next of their clue will be waiting for them at Camp Everfree.