This is the end of my Ahsoka fanfiction. We will see what happens after Season 2, and if we want to have Kendra continue her adventures. If you’d like to start at the beginning, you can find Chapter 1 here. Thank you for joining me on this adventure!
I had planned to self publish an original novel the year I started this story, but then my father died and I decided that wasn’t going to happen. This happened instead. It is now time to return to that self-publishing goal. Stay tuned for more info!
Rating: General, Spice Level: None
Characters/Tags: Original Character, Master and Apprentice Relationships, Original Female Character, Original Jedi Character, Ahsoka Tano, Huyang
Read Chapter 29 here.
The End
Kendra willed herself to the cockpit as she felt the shuttle gain altitude and speed. She felt the weariness of over-extension at the edges of her eyes, but there was no time to rest. She plopped down in the seat behind Huyang with a grunt.
“Very impressive,” he said.
“Thank you.”
The structure or temple where Ahsoka had led the others appeared on the horizon. Above it, a star destroyer rose within the great hyperspace ring Morgan had brought to this galaxy. The ship pelted the temple with massive blaster bolts even as small arms fire scattered along the top of the building. Kendra found the scene oppressive and evil, like some dark manifestation of the Force had grown out of the land into this temple.
“I am glad you stayed to guard me, I would have been no match for her.” Huyang angled the ship back down and skimmed along the ground. “You are exhausted. I insist you remain there until we have picked up the others up there.”
“There?” She realized the ship wasn’t targeting the roof but the base of the building. Large chunks of the ancient stone started to fall, and soon, the entire thing would collapse.
“Yes, I have signaled our arrival.” Huyang brought the ship under the edge of the roof. Kendra made to unbuckle and help, but the droid’s head spun quickly. “Stay here.”
He looked out the window to the dull sound of two thumps on the wing. “Well, there are two of them.”
“We’re in.” Ahsoka’s voice rang over the comms. She and Sabine immediately joined them in the cockpit.
“Where is…” Kendra started to ask.
“Ezra made it to the star destroyer.” Sabine buckled herself in.
“We need to catch them,” Ahsoka said. “We can’t let them jump to hyperspace.”
A tense silence fell over the four as they turned upward into the wake of the star destroyer. Several minutes passed as both crafts worked to escape the gravity and atmosphere of Peridea. If the ring jumped to hyperspace before they caught up, Thrawn would return to their galaxy, and they would be stuck here.
Kendra did not know how she could help. She wanted to ask about Ezra, if they were okay, if Thrawn survived, and many other things, but it wasn’t the time. So she dropped into a light meditation and attempted to spread the light healing touch to Sabine and Ahsoka. She wasn’t sure it was working. The day had taken a lot out of her already.
Ahsoka’s ship proved faster, but only slightly. By the time they made it past the ring of dead whale bones, they were close enough Kendra could make out individual panels on the destroyer but it seemed likely the ring could jump to hyperspace before they caught up.
A quiet, calm male voice came across the comms. “Ahsoka Tano, allow me to commend you on your efforts today. You’ve been quite a worthy opponent.”
Kendra assumed that must be Thrawn.
Ahsoka spoke to those in the cockpit. “Can you not get me any more power?”
Huyang and Sabine both started tapping more furiously on their controls, but the heavily damaged ship could go no faster. It surprised Kendra it had done so well so far.
Thrawn continued. “I regret we haven’t met face to face, and perhaps now we never shall. Still, I know you because I knew your master.”
Kendra felt an odd wave of understanding wash over Ahsoka, even as the small space they shared somehow grew even more full of tension.
“I concluded your strategies would be similar. One wonders just how similar you might become.”
This man had known Anakin Skywalker, the Jedi, and the Sith Lord. Sabine looked over to Ahsoka, who was suddenly entirely still. Then she looked back at Kendra. Neither apprentice knew how Ahsoka might take this.
“Perhaps this is where a ronin such as you belongs. Today victory is mine.” The ring’s massive engines grew bright. “Long live the empire.”
A wave of energy blasted their small shuttle end over end as the ring and star destroyer entered hyperspace. The ship’s gravity couldn’t keep up and Kendra yelled out as the lap belt pressed on her injured hip. Alarms rang and they briefly lost power before coming to a stop, floating in space, above Peridea. Trapped in the galaxy they’d come in order to stop him from leaving.
The three women slumped in their seats. Kendra bit her lip to not cry out more about her hip; the pain relieving and numbing of the pad couldn’t keep up with her day and she struggled to control her pain and focus with the Force. She shivered as the momentum of the moment, and activity of the day came to a sudden halt.
Sabine wordlessly started restarting the ship and engines, running through every checklist she apparently had memorized. Ahsoka’s gaze drifted out the side window. Kendra swallowed bile.
Huyang spoke first. “We will want the full story, of course. But I must note that Lady Thornboook fought with Baylan Skoll’s apprentice to protect the ship. I fear she may be more injured than she is letting on.”
Ahsoka let out a long breath. “Unsurprising. That she would appear, that you would defeat her, and that you’d not be up front about your injury.”
“I didn’t figure we’d stop for some first aid,” Kendra said.
“No.” Ahsoka rose from her seat and helped Kendra from hers. “But we can look at it now. Huyang, take us back down.”
“Of course.”
Kendra barely made it to the bed before finally collapsing.
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Kendra dreamed of Celestoria, her rock, and her master. The boulder remained in its usual place and the water continued to rush past on its way to the waterfall. Her master sat on the shallow shore. Kendra stared at the sky. Nothing happened in the dream. Master Edith did not speak. They did not get up and do anything for the day. There was just sitting.
It seemed fitting, when she finally woke the next morning. She’d started her adventure on the quiet, uneventful planet of Celestoria. Now she was on the quiet, somewhat more eventful, Peridea. She rolled over to find Sabine still sleeping in her bunk and Ahsoka’s bed empty.
Kendra slowly rolled herself out of bed. Her hip hurt worse than it had the day before, but she was hungry. She found Ahsoka sitting at the table, quietly eating a bowl of cereal.
“You should sit down.” Ahsoka didn’t look up. “I’ll get you some food.”
Kendra nodded and sat across from Ahsoka as the other woman rose to get another bowl.
“You missed our story last night,” Ahsoka said as she slid the bowl to Kendra and sat down. “Huyang insisted so he could record it.”
Kendra poked at the cereal with her spoon. “Yeah, it was probably boring.”
Ahsoka smiled. “Very. Nothing interesting happened at all.”
After Ahsoka told her of the assault on the temple, the reanimated storm troopers, the fight with Morgan, and Sabine’s decision to remain, Kendra told her about the fight with Shin.
“So both Baylan and Shin are out there still,” Ahsoka said. “She’s no doubt terrified. And we’ll probably have to figure out what he wanted here.”
“Maybe Thrawn blew whatever it was up when they destroyed the temple,” Kendra said.
“We can hope.” Ahsoka spun her spoon in the bowl. “I do think we are where we are meant to be, even if we don’t know why yet.”
Kendra felt too tired to argue as she ate her own cereal. She wasn’t sure where they were supposed to be, but stuck here after failing in their mission wasn’t high on the list.
“Sabine had an idea last night,” Ahsoka said.
“Oh, great. Another idea.” Kendra wasn’t trying to be cranky but everything hurt and she was still tired. She didn’t want to start another adventure so soon. She ducked her head. “Sorry, master.”
“I can’t blame you. This has been a lot, even for a Jedi.”
“Space whales,” Kendra said.
“Battling undead,” Ahsoka said.
“Almost dying,” Kendra offered.
“Well,” Ahsoka said, “that was a little more normal. At least during the Clone Wars. But we never ended up in another galaxy.”
“So her idea did not involve anything on that list?”
“No,” Ahsoka said. “She pointed out your master isn’t in the same galaxy now.”
“Okay…”
“Well, if you’re open to it, I could take on another apprentice.”
Kendra paused. She’d basically been treating Ahsoka as her master for months anyway. Still, she didn’t want to do anything wrong. “I thought you could only have one.”
“Well if there’s no Jedi Order, then there are no Jedi Order rules.” Ahsoka took another bite. “And if I’m not a Jedi, then I didn’t have any rules to begin with.”
Kendra smiled at her own logic being used. But she didn’t want to step on Sabine’s toes. “And this was Sabine’s idea?”
“I think she likes the idea of me having somebody besides her to pick on.”
Kendra nodded. It felt right. “What will we do here, Master?”
“I don’t know why we are here or what we will need to do, but training with two apprentices does seem like a good use of the time. I don’t think it will be as pleasant for you as Celestoria.”
“Fighting.”
Ahsoka nodded. “And against a Mandalorian. You may best her in the Force, but otherwise you’ll have to work very hard to not get knocked out.”
Somehow the idea sounded both terrifying and exciting. “Like a real Jedi.”
“Like a real Jedi.”
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