Star wars episode VII: The Storm begins
The galaxy is in turmoil , the newly reborn galactic Republic struggles to maintain order and stability within the galaxy. The Republic is on the brink of war with the highly militant First Order. Born born from the ashes of the Galactic Empire, the First Order continues to show their power as they expand within the unknown regions of the galaxy and rebuild themselves into an empire to be reckoned with. As Luke Skywalker and his new Jedi order try to bring peace to the Republic, First Senator Leia Solo does her best to keep the galaxy from erupting into another civil war. Investigating the appearance of a First Order presence in Republic space, Leia sends a squadron to the edge of known space to confront the First Order and prevent the conflict from escalating into full scale war.
Chapter 1: The edge of the galaxy
A long ship existed hyperspace in an empty area of space. The ship weaseling and pointed in the shape of a thin spear head. The ship was light grey with a darker grey underside being more bulky while the upper half was smoother. On the sides near the engines were red emblems.
Out of the hangers flew a dozen star fighters shaped almost like Xs.
Inside one of the fighters was a young man with tanned skin, brown eyes, and messy brown hair. He wore an orange flight suit with a white chest area.
He heard beeping sounds and turned his head.
"Easy BB-8, we're gonna be fine." He said as the ship flew alongside the others.
"Captain Dameron our scope isn't showing anything." The man heard over his com link.
"No worries commander, if there's a First Order cruiser out here, we'll find it." The man said.
"Why is a First Order cruiser blatantly flying through Republic space?" Another pilot asked.
"You know those guys, sometimes they must think they're still the Galactic Empire." The pilot said.
"If tensions keep up like this , we might find out just how big the First Order is Poe."
"I heard rumors they've conquered so many systems in the unknown regions they're almost as big as the Republic now."
"Those are just stories sergeants tell recruits to scare them." Poe said.
BB-8 beeped faster.
"Geez, you guys are scaring my droid." Poe said before BB-8 chirped.
"Hold on BB-8's got something." Poe said as he flew towards directions set by his droid.
Poe's fighter was followed by the others and their frigate.
That was when they saw a small cruiser, around the same size as their frigate with a lighter grey hull and was shaped almost like an arrow head that came out on four ends instead of two.
Poe saw the ship had several gaping holes in the hull, one near the the center of the side facing Poe. The remains of several fighter craft were also floating around the ship.
"Sir, we found the First Order cruiser." Poe said as their frigate moved closer.
"What could have done this?"
"Maybe pirates?"
"That's a First Order light cruiser. It would take a whole fleet of pirates to take that ship down, and it would have taken many pirates with it. I don't see any destroyed pirates." Poe said.
"We just scanned that ship, no life signs, I don't think any of them got away." The commander of the frigate said.
"Now what?"
"Now we find out what happened, commander we'll clear some of the debris so you can send in transports." Poe said as he fired at the remains of a few ships in the path of the cruiser.
BB-8 beeped out of control.
"BB-8 what's wrong?" Poe asked before he noticed something on his motion tracker. It detected four objects moving around the ship.
"Hey heads up! We've got movement!" Poe shouted before seeing the objects had vanished.
"I don't see anything on my scope Poe."
"I saw objects moving on my motion tracker." Poe said.
"Well I do-" Poe saw one of his fighters get hit by a yellow blast of energy and explode into pieces.
"Contact! Contact! Shield's up!" Poe shouted as he and his fighters scrambled.
"Where are they coming from?"
"Is that ship playing dead?"
"Scan's show it's offline."
As Poe desperately looked around he saw two yellow energy blasts moving like comets with tails as they flew at one of his ships.
"Blue-four incoming!"
The fighter made a sharp maneuver away from the two blasts, however, Poe's eyes widened as eh saw the two bursts of energy turn and follow the fighter.
"They're coming around!" Poe shouted as the fighter tried to maneuver. But despite this, one of the blasts hit the fighter and burned through its shields, shattering them.
"My shields are down!" The pilot shouted sounding terrified.
"Shoot it!" Poe shouted as he opened up on the blast , the others joining in.
However, as they fired at the blast, it made maneuvers away from their lasers, avoiding them like a star fighter while still flying at the fighter.
"How is that possible, even tracking blasts can't do that?!"
The blast hit the back of the ship and destroyed it.
Poe then saw the four objects again, they were changing positions before they vanished off the motion tracker.
"Eyes open, they could be anywhere!" Poe shouted.
Just then his eyes widened as a dozen yellow blasts flew from the area around and behind the destroyed First Order ship and at the Republic fighters.
"Evasive actions!"
The fighters tried desperately to evade the incoming blasts as they followed the fighters from behind.
The Republic frigate opened up its cannons at the blasts trying to destroy them, but just like before , they evaded the blasts.
"What the hell are these things!?" Someone shouted before Poe saw his wingman get blown apart.
"No!" Poe shouted before BB-8 frantically beeped.
Poe saw two of the blasts were on his tail.
Poe began maneuvering around the wreckage of the First Order ships. He made sharp turns and spins, at one point even performing an incredibly sharp u-turn. But the blasts weren't shaken, one hitting his ship as his shields were shattered.
BB-8 chirped.
"I know we're hit!" Poe was sweating as he tried to evade the blast as it got closer and closer.
Despite Poe's best efforts, he couldn't shake it.
Poe then saw the debris of several First Order fighters ahead of him.
"Hang on BB-8." Poe made a sharp turn around the debris as the blast hit the debris.
"BB-8 see if you can get our shields up again."
Poe tried to track the movement again, however, as the objects moved , they disappeared again.
Poe saw another two ships get destroyed and tightened his grips.
"Come on where are you!" Poe shouted as he saw one of his ships being chased by one of the energy blasts.
Poe opened up on them before he saw one of his lasers hit something else. Poe was confused, however, he realized that the area he fired at was the last location he saw one of the objects on his racket before it vanished.
Poe was able to figure it out.
"Blue squadron those ships aren't disappearing! They blend into space!" Poe shouted as he opened up again, this time firing two torpedoes as well. His fire hit something, Poe seeing a small burst as part of a craft was blown off.
The craft still blended into space , Poe not seeing the rest of it.
However, as he turned around Poe saw the last three of his fighters get destroyed.
"No!"
"Captain get back tot he ship now!"
Poe turned towards the frigate and flew.
"Full speed!" Poe shouted as BB-8 beeped frantically.
Eight blasts flew at the long straighter moving closer and closer as Poe flew at the hanger.
"Hang on BB-8!" The fighter crashed into the hanger as the shield raised over the door, the blasts crashing against it.
Poe climbed out of his fighter and tried to catch his breath, a small droid that was orange a white, while riding a metal ball.
The droid let out some beeps.
"I know they're gone BB-8." Poe said holding his face.
On the bridge, the Mon Calimari commander saw as the blasts began to hit their ship.
"Sir we can't find their craft and our shields are starting to buckle."
"Get us out of here."
"Sir by the time the navicomputer will get us to a friendly system."
"Forget that, just get us to light speed!" The commander shouted as their ship jumped away.
A few minutes Poe came to the bridge looking furious.
"What's going on? Why are we running!?"
"Captain we have no idea what we were up against. If we stayed we would have all died."
"They killed my men!"
"Captain whatever those things were they wiped out that First Order cruiser and would have done the same to us. This way we have the data to report back to the Republic."
"Sir the shields are back at full and navicomputer is keeping us safe from collisions, but we still don't know where we're going."
"We'll be safe for a while, just." The ship shook as the crew was nearly knocked to the ground.
"What's happening?"
"I don't know, we're being pulled out of hyperspace."
The ship dropped out of hyperspace, but as soon as they did, they saw they weren't alone.
In front of them was a vastly larger ship. The ship was massive and star destroyer like in design. The ship was around three-thousand meters long with a more flat command deck to the top of the slowly rising ship center. The ship was covered with turrets and had three hangers, two on the sides and one at the bottom.
Near the ship was a smaller one of similar design with four massive domes on the chest and a tornado shaped energy field over the center
"Resurgent class Star Destroyer and interdictor!"
The frigate opened fire , its red turbo lasers being harmlessly absorbed by the shield and hull of the massive capital ship.
"Hold you fire you fools, we're in First Order Space!" The commander shouted looking at the navicomputer.
"Get us the hell out of here!" Poe shouted.
"That interdictor is using a gravity well generator!"
Three blue turbo laster blasts fired from the Resurgent star destroyer and hit the Republic frigate, the smaller ship shaking as the crew were knocked to the ground.
Poe got up and saw pieces of wall and equipment having broken apart with a few electrical fires started.
"Damage report!"
"Shield's offline, engines offline, weapons offline, communications offline."
"Dam it we can't even contact them."
"Sir incoming enemy boarding vessels."
Poe tightened his grip.
"Security teams to your stations!"
Onboard one of the shuttles were over twenty men clad in white plate armor with black undershirts and trousers. The armor appeared to be plastic like covering their arms chest and legs with a helmet covering their heads. The helmet having black eye visors with a mouth area that came around from the eyes.
The shoulders of the armor plates were black with a black stripe over the helmet's right visor eye and across the chest plate.
The front two each carried a white riot like shield and a short white blaster. The two each carried large gatling blasters while the rest carried black had white blasts rifles.
One of the soldiers near the front with a riot shield shook as the third soldier put his hand on his shoulder.
"Easy there Slip, everything's going to be alright."
"Just don't mess up with me right behind you." The soldier with the gatling gun behind Slip said.
"Lay off him Zeros." The first soldier said.
"I'm ready to prove our skills against the Republic." The fourth soldier in line said.
"Are we really at war Finn?" Slip asked nervously.
"I hope we are." The fourth soldier said.
"Enough Nines, we have to focus on the mission know."
"Speaking of which." Zeros said as another soldier walked beside them in the center of the two lines.
The soldier was larger than the others and wore a black cape with red lining. Her amor made of a chrome like metal as she held a chrome blaster rifle.
"Listen up, our orders are to clear this ship and capture the commanding officer. Is that clear?" She said in a cold disciplined tone.
"Yes ma'am." The soldiers said in unison.
"We're stormtroopers of the First Order, you've been training your entire lives to fight the Republic, now it's time to prove yourselves first hand. Don't disappoint me."
"Yes captain Phasma." The stormtroopers said in unison.
Captain Phasma stayed near the front as one of the stormtroopers with a grey pauldron over his shoulder beside her.
"Formation IV."
"That will do Lieutenant." She said before the door opened.
Finn could see the white hallway of the Republic frigate and a squad of Republic troopers in cover.
The troopers were various species, each wearing brown uniforms with a brown helmet that covered their heads save their faces, an orange visor over their eyes and their mouths showing. They had smaller blasters in hand as they began firing
Slip and the other stormtrooper with a riot shield came forward protecting the other stormtroopers with the riot shields while returning fire.
Zeros and the other stormtrooper with the gatling gun began ripping through the troopers with their blue blaster fire, the Republic troopers getting shot down rapidly as Phasma raised her weapon and fired, each of her shots hitting their mark as she gunned down five men.
Finn and Nines came beside their lieutenant as they turned to the other end of the hallway, five republic troopers rushing at them.
The three stormtroopers raised their blasters as Finn felt the world slow around him, he looked at the Republic trooper and his weapon raised at him. Finn squeezed the trigger as his blue blaster bolt flew through the air and hit the man's head, burning a hole in his visor as the man dropped to the ground.
Nines and the lieutenant gunned down the other four quickly.
"Keep moving!" The lieutenant shouted.
Finn, Nines, Zeros, and Slip stayed with Phasma as they fought their way through the halls of the ship, the five stormtroopers slaughtering any Republic troopers in their path.
Finn heard a door open as he turned down the maintenance shaft and saw a pair of Republic engineers shaking as they saw Finn's blaster raised at them.
Finn shook as he saw the fear in their eyes.
Finn slowly lowered his blaster before a blaster bolt hit his chest.
Finn was knocked to the ground the trooper across the hall in his sight as Finn aimed and fire, sending the man's helmet flying off as he hit his face.
Finn saw the black smoking spot on his armor where he had been hit.
"Focus FN-2187!" Phasma shouted as Nines helped Finn up.
A republic trooper jumped out from a maintenance shaft at Phasma who knocked him down with a swipe of her arm before grabbing him by the neck and throwing him against the wall, choking him as the twi'lek thrashed violently before Phasma snapped his neck.
"Don't let yourself get distracted, you'll get killed." Nines said as Finn shook his head and returned to the fight.
The stormtroopers reached the bridge as they saw the men inside putting up a desperate defense.
Slip came forward with his shield absorbing the fire as Phasma hurled a grenade across the room, the bomb splitting into three as it killed seven men. Finn, Phasma, Nines, and Zeros began gunning down the crewmen. Zeros destroying a terminal and killing two men with a mortar blast.
As the five moved forward Slip stood near a dead Republic trooper.
Poe took cover behind a terminal , BB-8 rolled up beside him.
Poe seeing the commander get shot and killed.
"Dam it." Poe turned to BB-8.
"Plug in and download everything."
BB-8 did as Poe said.
"BB-8 you have to get that dada to the Republic."
BB-8 gave a sad beep.
Poe sighed.
"I can't come with you, you're small they won't notice you. They'll notice me, I'll hold them off, but you need to go!"
BB-8 gave a sad beep as the droid carefully rolled off.
Poe took a deep breath and came out firing, the stormtrooper with the riot shield absorbing the blast.
Poe noticed a dead Republic trooper near the stormtrooper , the trooper having grenades on his belt.
Poe fired a as the grenades went off.
Finn heard the explosion as he saw Slip go flying and crash into a wall.
Finn sprinted over as he saw his bloodied companion and knelt over him.
Slip tried to breath.
"Finn." He said reaching out to Finn to try and touch his face, only to find a cold helmet, leaving a blood handprint.
Phasma, Nines, and Zeros continued gunning down the crewmen before Finn saw a man behind a terminal in a flight suit. From where he was, Finn realizing he was the one who got Slip.
Finn screamed as he dropped his rifle and sprinted over, tackling the man to the ground as he began punching him violently.
The pilot tried to fight back but Finn knocked his arms away each time, grabbing his head as he slammed it against the terminal, the man coughing up blood as Finn tossed the man away before Phsama fired a stun blast, the man collapsing onto the ground.
Phasma stood over him as Finn breathed.
"Stand down FN-2187, this one we'll take alive." She said.
The lieutenant and a few stormtroopers entered the bridge.
"The ship is secured captain."
"Casualties?"
"None."
"It seems FN-2003 was our only casualty, I suppose if it had to be anyone." The captain said as two stormtroopers grabbed the pilot and picked him up.
Finn, Nines, and Zeros looking at Slip's body.
Nines and Zeros taking his body as Finn looked around at the dead bodies around him.
He took off his helmet and saw the bloody handprint, trying to breath.
Finn was covered in swear, his skin dark with brown eyes and black hair done in a military buzzcut.
"FN-2187." He heard, turning to see captain Phasma.
"Yes, ma'am."
"Get back to the Tyranny, and who gave you permission to take off that helmet."
"No one ma'am." Finn said as he put the helmet back on.
BB-8 rolled past dead republic troopers and crewmen as he made his way to a fighter in the hanger. Entering the droid compartment as the ship lit up and flew out.
As BB-8 flew the fighter away before a blast from the interdictor hit near him as he entered hyperspace, the ship getting damaged as it flew.
BB-8 did his best to keep the ship together before he was forced out of hyperspae, a planet in front of him with forty-percent of it covered in land with he rest in ocean.
BB-8 tried to control the ship as it flew down to the planet's surface and towards a temple in the jungle, crashing into the ancient temple.
Author's note
Yes the summary at the begging is suppose to be a title crawl, what can I saw I love the crawls
As I said, characters like Poe and Finn are still in this, but I will be taking them in different directions than the movies, similar directions but not the exact same ones