Back on the First Order ship, Kylo Ren sat with Darth Vader's burnt helmet before him. As he had spoken to Rey he had felt a pull to the light, one of the strongest he had ever felt, but he had resisted it. Now, as he often did when he felt a pull to the light, he spoke to his grandfather as he looked at his mask. The mask was evil, filled with the Dark Side. That was why he always spoke to it when he felt a pull to the Light, it always seemed to pull him back to the Dark Side.

He could remember when he found it on Endor. It was not long after he left his uncle, just before Snoke found him.

He could still remember the first time he touched the helmet. He had picked up off of the ground. The moment he held it in his hands he could feel the Dark Side within it. As he held it he had a series of visions. He could remember the visions, as if he had seen them yesterday.

He had watched with tears in his eyes as his parents gave him to his Uncle Luke. Then they left in the Millennium Falcon. He had felt so alone and abandoned.

Then the vision had changed and  saw himself as a dark masked figure, as Kylo Ren, bringing distraction to the galaxy.

Then he saw Snoke, saw his power. He saw himself serving Snoke, kneeling before him. In his vision, Snoke had given him great power. He had made him as strong as his grandfather.

Then he saw the very man he longed to become, his grandfather, Darth Vader. He saw his grandfather's strength and power, and he saw his grandfather the Dark Side give his grandfather untold power. He saw the fierce masked figure walking down a white hall. The figure's foot steps seemed to be full of hate and rage.

He wanted to become like his grandfather, he wanted to make him proud. His uncle had said that his grandfather was the chosen one who of an ancient prophecy and Kylo had always believed that he had died before he'd fulfilled whatever it was his grandfather had been chosen to do. As the heir of Darth Vader, he felt that it was his place to fulfill his grandfather's destiny and restore his broken legacy.

"Finish what I started," the deep muffled voice came from behind the mask.

And then he had seen a girl ... the girl he now knew as Rey. She stood in the dark, but she glowed as brightly as the sun. She was beautiful and seemed harmless. But he had felt at the time that his destiny was somehow bound to her's. Rather she would oppose him or fight at his side, he did not know. But he could see in his vision that she was very powerful, powerful on the Light Side. He had been afraid of her because of her power, and because while they were equals, he could never defeat her. Yet he had also longed to find her.

Ben had thrown the helmet down, he was surprised, amazed, and frightened at what he saw when he touched it. But after taking a deep breath, he had picked up the mask again.

When he picked it up, it had shown him both his past and his future. And it had shown him the power of the Dark Side. It was then that he had decided to join Snoke to be trained in ways of the Dark Side so that he would have an opportunity to fulfill his grandfather's destiny. He had been sure that his grandfather approved of it because of what he had said: "Finish what I started," and that was exactly what Kylo intended to do.

He lifted the shriveled helmet now hoping that he would again see the power of the Dark Side.

"I am getting stronger, grandfather," said Kylo. "I felt a strong pull to the Light, but I fought it. I am very close to finishing what you started. I thought I had to let the past die, but now I see that I can't. You are a part of my past, and I wouldn't be who I am if it weren't for you. I only wish you were here to see what I have accomplished."

Just then the helmet began to show him something, a vision.

First he saw himself as a helpless young boy, alone and afraid. He closed his eyes, not wanting to see that part of his life.

When he opened them again, he saw a dark figure. He couldn't see many details about the figure. Was this from his past, or his future? Was it Snoke or was it himself...or someone else? He couldn't tell, the figure was too distant for him to really see them, whoever they were.

Then he saw something he didn't understand. He saw a young man with shoulder length dirty blonde hair. He was dressed in the clothes of a Jedi. Standing next to him, was a beautiful young woman with long brown hair. The man walked over to the woman and hugged her, holding her tightly in his arms. He didn't know who they were, or why he was seeing them, but he could see that they cared about each other very much.

He tried to look for some clue as to who they might be, but as he did, the vision quickly changed.

He then found himself in a snowy forest.

"Where are you?" he heard a voice call. He realized that he wasn't hearing the voice with his ears, but in his mind, through the Force somehow. The voice was soft, but desperate. He recognized the voice, he would have known it anywhere. It was Rey's voice!

"Stay there," he told her through the Force. "I'm coming back to you."

He began to make his way across the snow covered ground, through the vast mass of trees.

As he stepped around a large tree he saw Rey. She was running towards him. She almost ran right into him, but she stopped suddenly as she saw him. She seemed afraid, almost. She screamed and looked at him like he was a monster.

"Don't be afraid," he spoke to her through the Force.

She breathed sharply and began to back away from him.

He realized that he was wearing his helmet and quickly removed it to show her that he was not a monster or a creature in a mask, that there was nothing for her to be afraid of. He stepped towards her. "I won't hurt you," he promised.

Suddenly his eyes fell on the ground between them. Little crimson drops stained the pure white snow. Blood, he realized. He looked up at Rey. Her clothes were stained with a red liquid, she was bleeding. He looked into her eyes and saw that they were filled with pain. Suddenly her eyes widened and she began to gasp in pain. Then she fell forward. Ben quickly caught her before she could fall and gently lowered her to the ground.

"Rey?" he asked out loud, but she didn't answer him. "Rey?" he asked louder, gently touching her face.

Still she didn't answer, and he realized that she wasn't breathing. He could no longer feel her presence in the Force...she was gone.

"No!!!!" he screamed, throwing Darth Vader's helmet down.

He collapsed to the floor, tears falling from his eyes. He took several deep breaths. Was this his future? If this was the power of the Dark Side, he didn't want it.

Why would my grandfather's helmet show me this? he wondered.

Then he realized what the mask was showing him ... his weakness. ...Rey.

Kylo stood up and picked up the helmet. "Please, grandfather, I'll do anything, as long as I can keep her safe," he begged. "I won't let her become my weakness. I just need you to show me what to do."

Kylo stared at the helmet in silence for several minutes. He waited as if expecting it to answer him, but he had spoken to it long enough to know that it wouldn't. He might see another vision, but there had never been a voice.

Suddenly a deep, yet gentle voice broke the silence. It was distant, but clear. "Ben!" it called, echoing through the small room.

Kylo looked around, there was no one else in the room, but he could feel a change in the Force around him. A strong presence, the likes of which he had never felt, not even in the presence of his Uncle Luke. Not even when standing before Snoke, but he could not find the source.

"Ben!" the voice repeated.

"Who's there?" Kylo asked, he tried to hide the fear that was growing within him, but it escaped through his voice, which quivered as he spoke.

But there would be no reply, Hux came in at that exact moment to deliver news of the Resistance. He saw Ren staring at his grandfather's helmet. His face was covered with sweat and what almost appeared to be tears. Sometimes he just couldn't understand Ren, he was very strange at times. Talking to his grandfather's mask, talking to himself, destroying rooms with his lightsaber and the list went on. He wished he could do away with Ren, sometimes, but he knew he had to be patient. The Supreme Leader would deal with Ren soon enough.

"We can't track the Millennium Falcon, but we have received word about a rebel, the pirate queen of Takodana named Maz Kanata. She has been gathering our enemies, and we know where her ship is. We believe she will know the whereabouts of the Resistance," he informed him.

"Good," Kylo answered.

There was a brief moment of silence as Kylo's eyes returned to the helmet in his hands, before he looked back at the general. "Next time, knock before you come in," he added angrily.

"Yes, of course," Hux replied, dismissively.

"Give the order," Kylo commanded. "Set a corse for Maz Kanata's ship."

"At once," Hux replied, then he left to give the order.

Once he was gone, Kylo listened carefully for the voice, but could hear nothing. The strange feeling in the Force was also gone.

Hux always interrupts me at the worst times, thought Kylo. First during my Force connection with Rey, and now when I feel this strange presence in the Force. Now I will have to wait to learn what the source of the strange voice was.

And waiting was not something he enjoyed.

I must prove to my grandfather that I am getting stronger, he thought silently. He looked at the mask, it was a frightening image.

He looked into a mirror at his own reflection. The scar Rey had given him did make him look a little more intimidating, but it also showed his weakness, and still he looked a bit too boyish to be someone that would fill the nightmares of everyone who came between him and his goal. Worse, his face was a painful reminder of his parents, he looked so much like his father that he often felt immense waves of guilt as he gazed at his reflection.

He decided that his mask had been a much more frightening image. He needed not only to instill fear into all those who saw him but also to hide his weaknesses, from himself and others. It was time to get a new helmet, one just like his old one.