Star Wars: Son of Skywalker | Book III: The Rise of Skywalker

Chapter VI: The Prophecy and The Wayfinder

"Are you sure it's in these?" Asked Rey, looking through the pages of one of the Ancient Texts. Jacen was doing the same to one of the others.

"It's an ancient legend of the Jedi, it has to be." Said Jacen, they both quickly turn the pages. Jacen then lays down another text on Rey's workspace, where she had been studying. He then sees a part of Rey's staff just lying there. "That looks interesting." He said, noticing how similar it is to a lightsaber hilt.

"It's not finished." She said. The hilt still needs a kyber crystal to form it's own blade. "Let's keep looking." Said Rey, as they continue their search, page through page.

"...found it!" Said Jacen, looking at a page with three figures illustrated on the page, a family of sorts. The Force Wielders of Mortis, each embody one side of the force. A Son that embodies the dark, a Daughter embodies the light, and a Father that embodies the balance, they were like gods compared to all the Jedi Knights and Sith Lords combined. Next to the illustration was another page, one with words that were inscribed. A Jedi Master unintentionally traveled to Mortis and learned about this prophecy, the coordinates remained unknown to this day, the prophecy was inscribed in the Jedi Temple Archives since then.

A Chosen One shall come, born of no father, and through him will ultimate balance in the Force be restored.

"The Chosen One? That sounds silly." Said Rey.

"My Dad told me this story before." Said Jacen. "This was believed by most of the Jedi that came before, some believed it was my Grandfather, and he destroyed the Sith and saved the Galaxy."

"Well, the Sith are back now so...good job Anakin." Said Rey. Jacen sighs at her comment.

"Yeah, that's the part I don't get." Said Jacen. "If Anakin fulfilled the prophecy, then the Dark Side should be destroyed, and this war shouldn't exist, nor should the First Order, or Snoke, or Kylo Ren." Said Jacen, Rey glanced down at the mention of Kylo's name. "I think this means something, and I bet Palpatine may be the cause."

"Then he's alive." Said Rey.

"Question is, where the hell is he?" Asked Jacen. BB-8 then beeps from behind them, telling them that the intel has finally been encrypted.

"We've gathered intel from the First Order spy, and it confirms the worst...Somehow Palpatine has cloned himself." Said Poe, announcing in front of the whole entire Resistance fleet, or at least the ones that were available, Jacen and Finn stood next to him. The whole room was full of whispers. "Apparently he had a secret cloning facility, where it is, we don't know." Poe rubbed his eyes, stressed out from the information.

"I've studied the basic science of cloning, dark side cloning for that matter." Said Beaumont Kin. "How he manages to restore himself, I can't explain."

"If any of this intel is true, we need to act now!" Yelled one of the admirals.

"This is a Sith Lord we're talking about." Said Jacen. "With that much power he could annihilate an entire fleet within a parsec."

"But how do we know if this is true?" Asked Rose.

"It can't be, the Emperor is dead!" Yelled Aftab Ackbar, son of Admiral Ackbar.

"Okay, I agree this is really bad, on so many levels." Said Kaz. "But hey, it can't get any worse....right?" He asked nervously.

"His remaining followers have been building something for years, decades even, underground on a planet called Exegol." Said Poe, Rose turns on the holotable, revealing the plans from the Mustafar Facility in exact detail, suddenly everything made sense. "The New Empire, Palpatine's Final Order, the largest fleet the Galaxy has ever known." Said Poe. "In sixteen hours or less, an attack on all free worlds will begin." R2 shakes and beeps in fear, C-3PO gently puts his hand on his friend's dome to calm him.