Deep in the pitch black of space…
A x-wing tandem starfighter jumps out of lightspeed. Inside a disheveled Poe Dameron that is bleeding from his right temple with dirt, grime, and scratches covering his pilot uniform and face.
"General! Hang in there!" He cries.
In the back gunner seat a barely conscious Leia sits.
"Where almost there, we're almost there…" Poe repeats, trying to reassure the injured women.
Abruptly behind him several TIE-fighters eruption through hyperspace fallowing close behind.
"Damn!" Poe yells, he spins the X-wing to avoiding the green beams that where aimed at him. He maneuvers his fighter so that he is able to get behind two enemy ships and then sends hell their way with multiple waves of energy blasts.
A ringing does off in his intercom. It's BB8 trying to tell him something.
"What are you crazy!" He yells in response. Poe's heart pounded with uneasiness as he heard what his little droid was telling him to do.
Several more beeping noises which could be interrupted as cursing resonated in his hears.
Poe takes a glance to his left to see what seems to be millions of pebbles floating in space.
"Ah! Damn it, let's do it. Direct all the energy we can spare to the shields!"
Poe makes a hard turn left. The X-wing thrusters burst to life in full throttle as he flies to the asteroid belt. Poe uses his excellent driving skills to gracefully zoom pass the orbiting rocks. The First Order's fighters swiftly chasing behind.
More beams can be seen hovering passed his line of sight as Poe aggressively tries to shake off the enemies.
Three out of the four TIE-fighters in pursue crashed into the boulders exploding on contact. The fireball of rocks and metal started pushing more asteroids in every direction. Some shrapnel from the explosion hits the remain enemy fighter's right panel causing it to catch on fire.
Poe sees this and slows down a little before turning the X-wing a full 360 and obliterating the enemy aircraft out of existence. Poe then Igniting his thrusters once more, making it out of the storm of rocks and to the other side.
Poe could hear the heavy breathing of Leia in the back as he steadied his vehicle.
"Just a little more…" Poe tells himself before smashing his hyperdrive button. The stars became blurs of white lines as he jumps back into lightspeed.
On the resistance planet Euruta…
Finn nervously paces in a hallway. Every three or two yards he would start the route again, biting his thumb, anxiety growing. Two days ago, they received a message from General Organa that she has secured an agreement some resistance fighters on the planet Kalgorean and that they were sending a whole battalion of soldiers and aid to help their cause.
However, this morning he received a transmission that ended abruptly, it was a distress signal. Poe and several other pilots raced to get to their location. Some how The First Order was able to get their hands on information regarding the agreement and they must have struck at the first chance they got.
Suddenly, he heard noises coming from the outside of the bunker that he was pacing in.
Finn ran out as fast as he could, beating several people that were already in front of him. When he got outside the base, near the landing zone he saw Poe's X-wing descend from the atmosphere.
A crowd of people have already bunched up near the area.
Finn hastily made his way to the fighter.
"Make room!" Poe could be heard yelling.
Finn pushed pass the group of people, as he got deeper into the bunch he saw faces of despair as he reached the front.
"No…" He stopped dead in his tracks as at the sight in front of him. Poe was caring a very badly, bloody Leia out of the X-wing.
"Oh no, no, no, no!" Finn yelled. "People get back! GET HELP!" he screamed.
Rushing up to Poe, he helped hold the injured Leia. There was a large piece of battered metal sticking out of her abdomen. Red crimson was dripping down her uniform all the way to her leg. Poe grunted as he and Finn help put Leia on a hover bed.
"Finn." The injured general said as she was comfortable tucked in on the white mattress. "Leia, I am here." He told her while gripping her hand and pushing the medical bed to the base's facilities.
"Rey... she, only she…" Her faint whispers could barely be made out.
"What, I don't get it, what are you trying to say?" He asked as they reach the door of the facility.
"Please step way, we need to operate now!" One of the resistance doctors told him. Finn still dumbstruck held onto her hand. Poe went over to Finn and had to break them up so that the doctors could take her into surgery.
"Finn! Hey, are you in there?!" Poe shook the shock Finn
Coming to his sense Finn looked back up at Poe. "What Happened?" he said.
"They were ambushed, we never saw them coming." Poe iterated, summarizing the events to Finn.
"By time we got there the cruiser was already nearly to explode. I managed to reach it just in time to reach the landing pad, and retrieve Leia. You should have seen it, there were probably three Dreadnoughts, and …" Poe had to pause, feeling light headed.
"Poe, we need to send you to the med bay, you need to get checked first." Finn told him.
"No, you don't get it we don't have time! Finn, The Order, I have never seen so many of them at once. They… They are preparing to wipe us out in this next attack."
Unexpectedly, Finns communication device started firing off. "This is Finn."
"Come here quickly! You have to see this." Rose uttered through the communicator.
Back at Kylo Ren's headquarters…
Kylo Ren's most trusted knight Keal has been keeping a close eye on General Hux for a while now the general has always given him a weird vide, but these past several months have been interesting. The usual Hux would constantly be trying to rage of verbal war with Kylo Ren or any person that he thought was below him. Now that Snoke was gone Keal expected Hux to give everyone associated with Kylo a hard time, and at first this was true. However, that instantly subsided. Passing that conniving rat a while back, Keal's senses where thrown off completely as the red head walked by.
Given that he now acts as Kylo Ren's right-hand man, Keal was given his own battalion and dreadnought of to keep the order in the southern side of the galaxy.
Unlike Kylo who treats most of the troops as disposable unit, which frankly Keal thought they were, he usually gets the better reputation of the force users. The soldiers of The First Order based this solely on Keals calm demeaner and his ability to not kill random people in a fit of rage when things go wrong. In fact, Keal knew the best way to obtain loyalty and to keep everyone in check was to treat his men with a mutual respect. If his men perform well on a mission, he would give them a small reward with credits or some extra days off to be with their families or recover from previous battles.
Kylo Ren, a then Ben Solo was the only friend Keal has ever had, and he was not willing to sever their ties because of Kylo's fall to the dark side. At times he would feel guilty for betraying his former master Luke Skywalker, but these feeling were instantly squashed when he would remember how much weaker of a person he was back then, and now with Kylo there could be no end in the power that he could obtain in the foreseeable future.
Keal along with another fellow Knight were meeting with the supreme leader today, it has been two weeks since their last status report and he was anxious to tell Kylo about his strange encounter with Hux.
The two Knights of Ren make their way into Kylo's chambers. When they got within a certain distance they kneeled.
Kylo Ren turns to face them. "Report."
The first knight answered. "We have amassed over five dreadnoughts and ten star-destroyers. We are assembling on the northeast side of the Contyyer system."
Keal followed up. "We should be within five days of striking."
"Good, we'll finally be able to crush those rebel scum once and for all." Kylo Ren replied.
Keal stood up and stepped forwards "Sir, may I speak to you in private."
Kylo Ren looks at the other knight behind them, nodding his head to tell the knight to leave.
"Ren, I have felt it. The Resistance leader is slowly fading from the force." He said.
"I that all you have to say?" Kylo asked, a hint of irritation within his voice.
"No, Hux, I have a feeling that he is up to something. Something is going to happen, I know it."
Kylo looks at the Knight. "That sniveling rat has always tried to out do me since we first met. Keal, keep an eye on him. If you find anything inform me. I'll put an end to his little game…" Kylo's voice filled the air with malevolence.
"Yes sir." The Knight replied.
"Good. You can leave now."
Finally, done with the meeting for the day, Kylo Ren walked over to his favorite spot near the windows again and closed his eyes. The emptiness he was feeling irritated him to no end. He thought that finally having it all, his own empire, the death of everything that has held him back would finally satisfy his lust for power, in truth it just made him more miserable.
Peering out into the distance he could see several star-destroyer warp out of hyper space. Letting out a sigh.
After a few minutes of solitude, he closes his eyes again trying to feel his mother's presence. He told himself he wouldn't do it, but just the thought of her has been tearing him to pieces for the past day and a half, as if there was a sliver of regret still left in his body.
When he opened his eyes again, he stuck with disbelief. Looking around he was on a different ship. One so oddly familiar that it made quell in frustration.
He took several steps, through the interior of the craft before stopping. This feeling he thought to himself, it's…
Jolting his head to the left he locks stares with her.
Her chocolate brown eyes were peering into his soul as, causing him to freeze. Rey stood before him, just the way he remembered, her slightly shocked expression that instantly turned to anger made his heart stop for a second.
"You monster…"