SEQUEL TO _Star Wars: The Jedi Reborn_
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Eleven years have passed since The Battle of Endor, and ten since The Battle of Jakku. With the discovery of _The Journal of the Whills_, an anc...
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Ben's ejection seat crashed to the ground, jarring every bone in his body. Moaning in delirium, he unbuckled his chute harness and crawled toward the east. He halted as stormtroopers approached his burning fighter. Shaking with fear, he searched for a safe place to hide. He hoped that his uncle would reach him soon.
Ben clambered over rocky wilderness to a large boulder fifty meters away and hid behind it. He stripped off his orange flight suit to reveal his steel gray uniform beneath it. Wincing in pain every time he moved his back, first he shrugged off one sleeve then the other before kicking the trousers off. That landing sure did a number on me. Ahhh. He stifled another groan. Blood dripped from his forehead and arm, but he had no med kit to do anything about it. He reattached his lightsaber to his belt and scuttled across the wilderness, laboring to move as far away from the burning wreck as possible.
Ben froze when he heard footsteps and voices not far from him. He crawled between two boulders hoping they would not find him. "The pilot punched out. He's got to be around here somewhere," a filtered voice said.
"He's hiding," another voice said, this one filtered by a more ominous voice modifier.
Ben's heart raced with fear when he saw them. Four stormtroopers accompanied a man in black with a black mask and voice modulator.
"He's here. I can sense him. Check those rocks over there."
The stormtroopers hustled toward the rocks and yanked Ben by the collar.
"Hey, easy," Ben said.
The squad leader rammed the butt of his Deece into Ben's stomach, bringing him to his knees. "Speak when you're spoken to, scum." Two others grabbed him by the arms and dragged him across the field.
The man in black cautioned, "Careful with him. The Supreme Leader needs him in one piece." The stormtroopers stopped immediately. "He's injured. Pick him up and carry him."
Ben asked, "Who are you?"
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Luke wandered the steppes for hours. A few hours before dawn, he collapsed behind a rocky outcropping. During his last few minutes of consciousness, he second-guessed the decision of bringing Ben on this mission. Was he ready? What was I thinking bringing a sixteen-year-old into this? But, he has been doing so well this last year ... Luke slipped into unconsciousness.
