Rey holds the lightsaber toward Luke who looks at her with great emotion.
“Who are you?” Luke asks with astonishment.
“My name is Rey. Leia wanted me to find you…and I wanted to find you.”
Luke is startled. “How did you find me?”
“We found a map, part of it in an old droid.”
“R2?” Luke asks, processing this information.
Rey nods, “and here is your lightsaber.”
Luke takes the weapon, looks at his skeletal robotic hand and back at the weapon.
“You have come to take me away from here?” Luke asks.
“If you will leave, yes.” Rey answers.
“If? If I want to leave?” Luke asks. Luke looks to the sea, the rocks, the small pesky birds. Rey can’t tell if Luke is laughing or crying.
Luke recovers. “Come with me. Not a moment out of my sight. I need to gather my belongings.”
Luke keeps an eye on Rey as they trek to his small stone hut. Inside there is little of note, ragged clothes, some ancient books, stone carvings and drawings. Luke packs the books into a satchel and looks around the hut as if for the last time. “Let’s go, Rey.”
~-~-~-~
Luke’s mouth is agape looking at the Falcon. “Han let you take his ship?”
Before Rey can answer, Chewie exits the ramp and looks up to see Luke. Their eyes meet and Luke holds back tears as the truth hits him. Luke goes to his old friend and hugs him. “I’m so sorry. How did it happen?”
Chewie barks mournfully and Luke’s countenance darkens.
“Ben? He- I can’t believe he would do that. He was….I need to see Leia.”
Chewie, Luke, and Rey quickly board the ship and leave the planet.
~-~-~-~
The Resistance Fleet is under attack by First Order ships. “How did they find us?” Leia demands.
“I can’t fathom it, Ma’am,” responds a command officer. “We don’t have the firepower to win this battle.”
“Prepare all ships to make another jump. I will transmit the jump location personally to the captains of the other ships.”
Leia taps in the coded transmission and in a moment the Resistance fleet jumps to hyperspace and after a brief span of time reenters normal space.
In short order the First Order ships are upon them again.
“Impossible!” yells Admiral Ackbar.
Leia looks angrily at the ships. “They are tracking us through hyperspace. We have no choice but to fight.
~-~-~-~
On board the Falcon, Luke is seated next to R2. “I missed you too, but you wouldn’t have enjoyed being on the island. And you had 3PO to think about.”
R2 whistles doubtfully.
Luke smiles and works at cleaning the droid, finding comfort in the task.
Rey appears confused by the attention Luke pays to the droid. “Master Skywalker, the reason I volunteered to find you is to learn about the Force.”
Luke turns his attention from R2 to Rey. “There are many texts that speak of the Force, you don’t need me.”
Rey swallows hard. “There are things I can do, things I have seen and know…and I don’t know why.”
“Tell me what you have seen,” Luke says with intense interest.
The ship is rocked as if by laser fire. Chewie roars from the cockpit. Rey and Luke run down the corridor.
Looking out from the cockpit they are in the midst of a great battle. A looming dreadnought and several Star Destroyers are exchanging fire with Resistance ships.
Squadrons of X-Wings speed past the Falcon toward the First Order ships.
“Get to the command ship,” Luke points at the biggest Resistance ship, the Raddus.
The Millenium Falcon docks with the Raddus and Luke is the first down the ramp where Leia is waiting. They embrace.
“Luke, where have you been?” Leia asks, looking at him intently.
“Ben.” Luke answers. “Ben stranded me, where nobody, not even his Master Snoke could find me. He did it to protect me.”
“Ben killed Han,” Leia responds.
Luke nods, “I can still save him, Leia.”
Leia smiles sadly, but doesn’t answer.
~-~-~-~