It was dark and Finn was alone in a cell. He felt cold, his heart hurt. He felt there was no reason for anything anymore. He'd given up. Phasma walked up to the cell.
"Trash compactor is ready for you." Finn lowered his head down and got up. Phasma grabbed his arm.
"You know I know my way around a trash compactor, right?"
"This one is different." they got to a door where Phasma opened it. It led straight down, she shoved Finn towards the ledge.
"Any last words?"
"I'm still in charg-" she pushed him. The fall was long, so long he could take a nap, wake up and he'd still be falling. He may have been falling at a fast pace but it felt like it was getting slower and slower the closer he got to the ground. He closed his eyes. Time was slow. He thought of everything he's been threw. From helping Poe escape to running into Rey to being where he was now. The memories just flowed through his mind, he was aroused. Soon he wasn't falling anymore. He was floating just a few inches off the ground. He opened his eyes and panicked.
"Woah!" he struggled frantically in the air. Then fell to the ground. Into the dirty water. He got up and patted himself relieved he was alive. "What just happened?" he thought.
Rose and Poe were stuck in a cell together.
"Can you please relax, you've been searching the cell for twenty minutes."
"I'm just seeing if there's something I know something that could get us out of here." Rose rolled her eyes.
"You know it'd be great if you helped." Poe added.
"I'm sure if there was something here, you would've found it twenty minutes ago." Rose commented. Rose looked down.
"I can't believe Rey would just betray us like that." she said in disappointment.
"It's part of the plan." Poe sitting down he began to fiddle with the broken earpiece.
"It is?" Poe rolled his eyes and sighed shaking his head.
"I hope so."
"What do you mean? Weren't you there when they discussed?"
"Yes. But we didn't exactly specify how we were going to distract him." Rose looked around then back at Poe.
"What're you doing?" she asked.
"I'm trying to fix the earpiece to contact Finn."
"Yeah...that's not going to work but you can use it to get us out of the cell." Poe turned his head toward Rose.
"What'd you mean?"
"I'm sure there's something in that earpiece that could...possibly blow the cell doors open." they smiled at each other.
"You're a genius!" Poe said giving her a high-five.
Phasma walked into the room.
"FN-2187 has been dealt with. You won't have to hear from him again." Kylo nodded his head in praise.
"What shall I do to the others?" she asked.
"Figure something out. Right now I'm busy." Phasma nodded and saw herself out the room. Hux took Kylo to the side.
"Are you sure you can trust her? Don't sacrifices only include one person?"
"She brought three people here she once cared about and is allowing us to torture them. Don't question my choices." Hux stood off to the side.
"So..how will we rule?" Rey wondered.
"I'm glad you asked. We'll start off on a clean slate. No resistance. No First Order. Nothing.." Hux gulped.
"..and from there whatever remains will be ours."
"Sounds perfect."
"But before we start any of that. I still need to teach you." He walked up to Rey and grabbed her chin. "Look." He tilted her head towards a screen showing Finn being pushed into the trash compactor.
"If you can watch this. You prove that you are worthy of joining us." Rey watched the screen as it played over and over. He didn't scream yet she could hear it echo in her head. "This will haunt you for the rest of your life. But it'll be worth it." He said releasing her chin.
"I told you. Those people have done nothing for me." Kylo was fully convinced. He could sense her feelings and there is nothing.
"Just to double check." he raised his arm up to her. Reading her mind like he did back in the woods and when he captured her. There was nothing there.
"You wouldn't mind proving yourself one more time, would you?" he said, Rey lifted her head up slightly and smirked.
Finn was looking for a way out. It's been almost an hour and he was still in there.
"Wait a second. I have the force and I'm surrounded by trash." He realized. Then he realized he didn't know what he realized. Things started to squirm in the dirty water he was standing in causing him to squirm.
"It's a good thing these walls don't close in." he said hoping that when he said it, it wouldn't happen. While searching for a way out he found Phasma's helmet and tried it on.
"Yeah, just as uncomfortable as I remembered." he said. "I gotta stop talking to myself and find a way out." He said to himself. Maybe I can fly? He thought to himself. He started to think: What caused him to float off the ground before? How could he do it again? Why was he thinking of himself in third-person? He then sat down on a big pile of trash that was almost like a mountain towering over the other garbage around. He then had an idea. He crossed his legs and stared at the trash. Thinking of everything that's happened to him. Thinking of what Maz has said to him. Thinking of what Rey said about him. Before he knew it the trash was floating and he began to pile it up like a big mountain leading to the doors that Phasma pushed him out of.
"Now we're talking." he said rubbing his hands together.
Poe placed the earpiece down by the doors and clapped his hands as he moved it out of the way. They both squated at the other side of the cell, waiting for the doors to explode.
"Well nothin-" before Rose could finish her sentence the earpiece exploded sending the cell doors flying. Poe looked at Rose.
"You were saying?" They got up and headed towards the hallway.
"I don't really no my way around." They turned a corner and get startled bumping into Finn. They all sighed with relief.
"Finn! Oh thank god your alive!" Rose said hugging him.
"Where'd she take you?" Poe asked going in for a hug.
"She threw me down an endless trash compactor."
"How'd you get out?" Rose asked.
"You wouldn't believe it! I-" they heard a door open and hid. Kylo and Rey walk down the hall, both had no expression on their faces. As soon as Rey passed Finn she stopped. She could sense him, she turned around causing Kylo to turn and look at her.
"Something wrong?" Finn shifted further into the wall crack he was in. Rey got closer to Finn he could sense her presence nearby. Her presence felt cold and he got tense. Closer and closer. Finn could hear his heart beat faster and faster as she got closer. He turned his head finding Rey staring at him. They didn't break eye contact.
"Rey.." Finn whispered. Still no expression on her face. Kylo walked up to her.
"What is it?" She moved out the way revealing him to Kylo. Kylo looked up at Finn. There was no where for him run. He was stuck in between the walls with very little space to move, he was cornered. His eyes turned to Rey, hoping she would do something.
"HEY!" a feminine voice said from behind Kylo. It was Rose, Kylo turned around to Rose's fist being heavily forced into his face sending him back. Finn ducked out of the way and was able move away from them. Rey reached out her arm and swung Finn into the wall, then forced Rose still. Kylo got up wiping the blood off his nose. He reached his arm up lifting Finn off the ground and began to choke him.
"Rey.." he said struggling to breathe. He closed his eyes and reached out his hand. If he could do it in the trash compactor, he could do it here. Kylo was choking him tighter and tighter. It was hard to focus when he couldn't breathe,. He look at Rey and saw a glimpse of hope in her eyes, he relaxed himself. He flung his hand at Kylo throwing him into the wall. Finn fell to the ground with his hand on his chest gasping for air. Rey was so appalled that she let go of Rose, she didn't know how to react.
"Poe!" Finn yelled moving Rose's arm towards him they began to run. Before Finn left he looked at Rey and extended his hand out.
"Come on!" He said. Rey looked at him, her eyes watery.
"Finn, we gotta go!" Poe said running back to him. Finn moved his hand closer to her. It was like they were the only two in the galaxy. Everything was slow and all sound wasn't clear. The surroundings were blurry and it was only them who were in focus. Rey flashed back to when Kylo asked her to join him. It was just like this moment.
"Rey, please." his voice cracked, his eyes diluted. He couldn't believe how long it was taking for her to decide. There was an unclear sound coming closer to Finn's ear.
"Finn!" Rose grabbed his shoulder pulling him back into reality. He didn't take his eyes off of Rey as Rose was pulling him away. She turned toward Kylo and reached her hand out. He looked at her then at Finn, then grabbed her hand and got up.
"Why'd you let them get away?" Kylo asked watching them run down the hall.
"They'll be back." she answered watching as Finn turned around one last time to look at her. She turned her head looking away. Finn shifted his eyes to the ground then turned the corner to catch up with Rose and Poe.
They ran into the Falcon, quickly getting ready to leave.
"We're just going to leave Rey?"
"What choice do we have?" Rose said.
"She'll be fine, right now we need to worry about getting out of here." Poe explained. The Falcon barely made it out. Finn sat in a corner with his elbows on his knees.
"You okay?" Rose said crouching down next to him. Finn looked at her snapping out of his gaze.
"Not really." he moved over giving her more room.
"This must be hard for you." Finn nodded. "I can tell you really care about her.."
"More than you think." he commented.
"Hey, so what happened back there man?" Poe asked. "You like threw Kylo into the wall without touching him." Rose looked at Finn and nodded in agreement.
"It all started in the trash compactor. The force saved me from a bad landing."
"You saved yourself using the force." Rose said.
"It must've been calling to you and you couldn't hear it." Poe replied. Finn sighed and rested his legs. "We need to warn General Organa about what happened." Poe continued.
"How can we be so sure that she's on his side?" Rose asked.
"Did you not hear what she said about us?" Finn looked down. "I'm sorry to be so negative..i'm just not happy we failed."
"It's okay." Rose said.
When they arrived back at the Resistance base they informed General what happened.
"I shouldn't have sent you guys out there." Organa said. Finn looked at Poe.
"Finn has something to tell you." Rose announced moving Finn closer to the General. She looked at Finn waiting for the news.
"I...think have the force." he was slightly embarrassed.
"You think?" the General was confused.
"I mean I know I do...it's just.." General nodded her head and gave Poe and Rose a look to leave the room. They scurried out.
"What makes you so sure?" Finn explains to her everything that happened from being pushed into the trash compactor to leaving Rey behind. General shook her head.
"It just doesn't sound like Rey."
"I know." Finn replied. "Do you think she's brainwashed.?"
"I don't know.." she said. After they talked they joined the rest of the group.
"So what now?" Rose asked.
"We finish this war once and for all." General stated.
