Star Wars: The Ice Awakens
Summary: Three scavengers looking for a different lease on life. Two Resistance pilots dedicated to protecting the fragile New Republic. Two Stormtroopers that want more than to serve the First Order. Two droids, both holding a secret that all of them want. Elsa/Poe, Kristoff/Anna, and Finn/Rey.
Author's Note: This story is written by me and Songbird's Call. If you want to check her out on Archive of Our Own, she's known as Song of the Rails over there. We also are writing a story called Forgotten Rails. I suggest you check it out on here. And I recommend you read her story, "The Island" on her Archive of Our Own account. Anyways, enjoy the story!
Chapter 1: The Ice Awakens
Star Wars
Episode VII
THE ICE AWAKENS
Luke Skywalker has vanished. In his absence, the sinister FIRST ORDER has risen from the ashes of the Empire and will not rest until Skywalker, the last Jedi, has been destroyed.
With the support of the REPUBLIC, General Leia Organa leads a brave RESISTANCE. She is desperate to find her brother Luke and gain his help in restoring peace and justice to the galaxy.
Leia has sent her most daring pilots on a secret mission to Jakku, where old allies have discovered clues to Luke's whereabouts….
The space above Jakku was eerily quiet until a massive black shape began cover the visible surface of one of Jakku's moons. It was one of the First Order's many Star Destroyers. As the moon was swallowed into the darkness, four transport ships launched from the side of the massive ship, racing down to Jakku's surface. The landing lights in each transport, flashed in and out until they revealed their contents. First Order Stormtroopers.
Meanwhile down on the planet's surface, two BB units stood watching the dark sky for any trouble. One was painted orange and white. The other, white and brown with highlights of orange. When they saw the lights from the transport ships, the two droids looked at each other and rolled as fast as they could back to their masters.
Inside a small hut sat four men. Two of the men were old. Very old. One was tall and thin with thinning grey hair. The other one was short and fat and had dyed green hair, though it was starting to thin. They're names were Lor San Tekka, and Pabbie. Pabbie on a occasion was called Grand Pabbie. These men had two pieces of something very important.
The other two men were younger. One had thick black hair, and wore a brown flight jacket along with a yellow undershirt and light green cargo pants. His name was Poe Dameron. One of the ace fighter pilots of the Resistance. The other man was slightly taller than Poe. He had shaggy brownish blond hair, and a bluish grey flight jacket. He also wore a brown undershirt and blueish grey cargo pants. His name was Kristoff Bjorgman. Grand Pabbie was his adoptive grandfather.
Grand Pabbie, and Lor San Tekka handed the two pilots two small bags.
Lor San Tekka stared at the two men.
"These will begin to make things right."
Pabbie sighed.
"We have travelled too far and seen too much to ignore the despair in the galaxy. Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in the Force."
Poe smiled.
"Well, because of you two, now we have a chance."
Kristoff nodded.
"The General has been after these for a long time, Grand Pabbie."
Lor San Tekka chuckled.
"Oh, the General? To us, she's royalty."
Poe smiled.
"Well, she certainly is that."
Just then the two BB units bursted into the hut, beeping wildly. Kristoff turned to his grandfather.
"We got company."
The four men quickly went outside and Poe activated his goggles. Kristoff did the same. The two pilots could see the transport ships racing over a ridge not too far from where they were.
Kristoff groaned.
"Great...just great."
Poe pulled down his goggles and spoke.
"You two have to hide."
Lor San Tekka spoke up, his words having a grave tone to them.
"You two have to leave. Go!"
Poe and Kristoff ran out of the village as an alarm bell rang, and the villagers grabbed their weapons and took aim at the oncoming transports as they landed. The massive landing doors fell to the ground as the Stormtroopers rushed of out them, opening fire and shouting orders.
Poe and Kristoff got to their X-Wings and began to climb in.
Poe shouted to his droid.
"Come on, BB-8, hurry!"
Kristoff scrambled into his X-Wing, going head first into the cockpit.
"Hurry up, Ol-0f!"
The white and brown BB unit chirped at him, annoyed, as he was loaded into the droid hatch. As Poe began to fire up his X-Wing, a few stormtroopers noticed the two fighters, and began to shoot them. With a loud bang, the engines of both fighters were hit, sending an alert to the cockpit to both pilots.
BB-8 chirped in worry.
Poe flicked a few switches.
"I see them!"
A small wing turret deployed from Poe's X-Wing, and turned 180 degrees, the barrel of the gun facing towards the engines. Once the troopers were in range, Poe fired the turret, the blast from the turret hitting the troopers, and killing them. Poe climbed out of the X-Wing and looked at his X-Wing's engines. They were damaged beyond repair. He wasn't going anywhere. Neither was Kristoff. Kristoff managed to climb down from his X-Wing, and was looking at his engines. They were damaged too. The two pilots glanced at each other, and then back at the village. The troopers were burning the village.
Poe called to BB-8 and Ol-0f to him. The two droids came over to him as he pulled out the bag that Lor San Tekka had given him. Opening it, he pulled out a small metal shard which had a small pulsing glow to it. He turned to BB-8.
"You take this. It's safer with you then it is with me."
BB-8 opened a small storage compartment he had as Poe gave him the small shard, dropping it into the compartment. Ol-0f rolled over and tapped Kristoff on his leg with his head.
Kristoff nodded, and grabbed the bag given to him by Grand Pabbie, dumping its contents out. It was made from the same material as Poe's shard, and had the same glow, but was in a completely different shape.
"Here."
Ol-0f opened his storage compartment, and Kristoff put his shard into it. The small white and brown BB unit closed the compartment as Kristoff continued to talk.
"Poe's right. These are safer with you and BB-8 then us. You two get as far away from here as you can."
Poe nodded.
"Do you hear us? We'll come back for you. It will be all right."
Kristoff grabbed his blaster rifle from the cockpit of his X-Wing as did Poe, and the two went over to a ridge to use as cover, while BB-8 and Ol-0f rolled away from the battle. Poe and Kristoff primed their blasters and began to shoot the troopers. Meanwhile, two troopers were rushing towards the village when a blaster bolt from Poe and Kristoff's rifle struck two troopers down in front of them. The two troopers knelt next to them to see if they were alright, but the downed troopers reached out and touched their helmets, leaving a trail of blood before collapsing to the ground. The two troopers stood up, gasping, and wondering what was going on.
They ran off to the side of the battle to catch their breath as massive black ship began to land in the village. Kristoff and Poe watched apprehensively as it landed. Meanwhile the troopers had rounded up the remaining villagers, and were pushing them into the center of their home. Two Command Troopers brought the two marked troopers to the center of the village and told them to stay right where they were. Four troopers brought Lor San Tekka and Grand Pabbie to the center as well.
The landing ramp of the large black ship opened, and out stepped a man in black robes, and wearing a black mask with silver highlights. He walked over to Lor San Tekka and Grand Pabbie. If he was not wearing the mask, the two old men might have seen him smirking.
"Look how old you two have become."
"Something far worse had happened to you," replied Lor San Tekka.
The masked man sighed inwardly before continuing.
"You know what I've come for."
Pabbie crossed his arms.
"We know where you come from. Before you called yourself Kylo Ren."
Ignoring the two men, Kylo continued.
"The pieces of the map to Skywalker. We know you found them. And now you're going to give them to the First Order."
"The First Order rose from the Dark Side," replied Lor San Tekka. "You did not."
Kylo turned to face him.
"I'll show you the Dark Side."
Pabbie stood up straight, showing one last bit of defiance.
"You may try. But you can not deny the truth that is your family."
"You're so right."
Kylo activated his blood red crossguard lightsaber, and struck the two men down. Kristoff and Poe aimed their blasters and fired, but Kylo was quick. Using the Force, he froze the blaster bolts, and the two pilots in place until four stormtroopers punched them in the stomach, forcing them to their knees. The troopers carried them over to him, and forced them down in front of Kylo. Kylo crouched and stared at the pilots.
Poe gulped.
"So who talks first? You talk first? I talk first?"
"The old men gave them to you," said Kylo.
Kristoff spoke up.
"It's just very hard to understand you with all the.."
"Search them."
"...Apparatus," continued Kristoff as he and Poe were dragged to their feet and searched.
The troopers turned to their commander.
"Nothing, Sir."
"Put them on board," replied Kylo.
As Kristoff and Poe were taken away to the ship, another Stormtrooper, this one with all sliver armor and a red and black cape, came over to Kylo. This was Captain Phasma, one of the many female stormtroopers in the ranks of the First Order. Herself, Kylo and General Hux treated each other as equals other than Kylo and Hux as they were constantly trying to be better than the other.
"Sir? The villagers," she asked Kylo.
Kylo stared at the group before speaking.
"Kill them all."
All of the troopers surrounding the villagers raised their blasters. The two marked troopers raised their blasters hesitantly.
"On my command," said Phasma. "Fire."
All of the troopers opened fire on the villagers except for the two marked troopers and they lowered their blasters, shaking their heads. Once the firing was over, the troopers searched for anything else that could have anything to do with Luke and his whereabouts. As Kylo headed back to his ship, he stopped and stared at the two marked troopers, almost sensing their rebellious thoughts. Ignoring them, he headed back to his ship, but not before letting go of the blaster bolts he was holding back with the force. The bolts crashed into a small rock before exploding on impact.
Meanwhile the troopers were searching Poe and Kristoff's X-Wings. When the troopers found nothing, the lead trooper turned to the firing squad.
"Nothing here. Go ahead!"
He ran away from the X-Wings as the troopers opened fire and blew up the X-Wings. Meanwhile out in the desert, BB-8 and Ol-0f saw the explosion from both fighters, and beeped. Once it was over the two droids looked down in sadness before rolling off into the desert, not noticing a creature sticking it's head out of the sand and staring at them.
Soon, the four transport ships and Kylo Ren's personal ship arrived back at the Star Destroyer hovering over Jakku. Kristoff and Poe were dragged out of a transport ship.
"Alright, alright," said Poe. He looked around in shock. This was the first time he had been in a First Order Star Destroyer. He and Kristoff were hauled off to separate holding cells to be interrogated, while the two marked Stormtroopers went into a transport ship and pulled off their helmets. One was dark-skinned, and had thick black hair. The other trooper was almost pale-colored and had thick brown hair and brown eyes. He had a scruffy beard, and a mustache. The two were breathing heavily, their minds in shock.
Captain Phasma's voice snapped them out of their daze.
"FN-2187, and SV-7971. Submit your blasters for inspection."
The two troopers nodded.
"Yes, Captain."
"And who gave you permission to remove those helmets?"
"We're sorry, Captain."
"Report to my division at once."
Phasma marched out of the ship as FN-2187 and SV-7971 put their helmets back on, walking out of the ship and making their decision. They were going to leave the First Order, and rescue Poe and Kristoff. But little did they know that their decision would change the fate of the galaxy.
And that is the start of Star Wars: The Ice Awakens! I hoped you enjoyed the first chapter and will stick around for the next. Until next time! P.S. Try to guess who SV-7971 is in this story in a review! Okay, bye!