A New Force

Chapter II: Somewhere, Nowhere

Author's Notes:

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Darkness. 

Voices swirled around him, mingling together and intensifying in his ears until they came together to utter his name.  It was as though the sound was tangible, so loud and real that he might have been able to reach out and touch them.  Other than being completely blind, the voices were not menacing.  They sounded like ghosts, distant yet in the air that he breathed.

As his eyes began to adjust, it looked as though he was floating through space.

There was ground beneath him, an invisible cosmic path that seemed never-ending.  Although he was in this deep expanse of nothingness, he did not feel alone. 

In fact, Ben had never felt closer to the Force.

Its power seemed to surge through his veins, as though he was floating in the purest concentration he had ever experienced.  It was intoxicating, yet all together terrifying. 

Although the air was moving and rippling with the power that surrounded him, he felt as though he stood in the middle of time itself.  The sensation was very similar to what he experienced with Anakin. 

But he was... alive?

Clutching his chest, he felt his heart beat beneath it.  Unless it was another trick, he was very much alive.  His once decaying body was dressed in all-grey, garments and a cloak that looked eerily similar to what his Jedi Masters before him wore. 

The voices, dancing through his mind and skipping on the air around him, became garbled once more, exploding in his ears.  Whispers, yelling, conversations, he couldn't make anything out.

"Stop!"

He yelled into the nothingness, responding to whatever was invading his mind.  Palpatine was dead.  He was done with unwanted guests in his brain.

Hushed now, he called out again to the voices.  "Where am I?"

Silence, and for a moment Ben was worried that he was going insane.

"In the place between places, you are."

The voice was loud, yet calm, permeating through the darkness of space.  He had heard whoever this was before, but he couldn't yet place the voice.

"Who are you?" Ben spoke urgently, a little above a whisper, not wanting to end the conversation.

"Your Master's Master, I am." 

Grand Master Yoda. 

"Why you? How can you... speak to me?" 

Yoda laughed, filling the air with warmth at the sound.  The last laughter Ben had heard was his own, right before he took his supposed last breath.  "Clever, you are.  Mhm.  Even your Master could not find the path here."

"Can you help me get out? Anakin, my grandfather, said I would know what to do."

"Indeed.  Mighty blood courses through your veins, it does.  However, freedom's key lies somewhere else within you."