Act I (Part III)

[Mystery Station]

Ever since Commander Poe left, the research team noticed the interior was a cramped and never-ending maze of hallways, passageways and doors which connect the many rooms and compartments within the compound.

"What could've done this?" one of the researchers commented on the destroyed compound.

Out of nowhere, red eyes beam on the faces of six men. One carries a blaster and searches the horizon with binoculars.

One of them screamed "What the!"

A blue haired creature with three red eyes, the upper-body structure of a human, complete with opposable thumbs on its clawed hands, yet walks on all-fours. It pounced onto one of the men, as all of them shouted "Fire!"

Nothing. Blasters were ineffective.

As it finished with its first kill, it pounced onto the next, and to the next, etc...

[C-Base]

"Sir, there's a message coming through from an unknown source." A technician officer said aloud.

"Put it through." The resistance commander ordered.

The message sparked through glitches and buzzes that it was hard to hear.

"Clear the sound." The commander ordered firmly.

The technician did as he was told, pressing a few buttons to clear the glitches and buzzes and has cleared those out.

As he did that screams could be heard and a creature roaring through the sound almost made the technician deaf, causing him to react fast and take off his headset and throwing it onto the computer. He fell off his chair and a few people tried to get him up.

The sound of the roar was still being and only a few glimpses of people could be heard,

"There's a creature here!"

"Send help!"

More cries of screams and roars were heard and the commander ordered to get a squad geared up and head to where the researchers were.

As Finn went back to the Millennium Falcon, all packed up and ready, he noticed the baldy doors were opening and entered in Poe along with another team member on a speeder.

"Poe!" Finn cried out happy to see his friend.

Poe got out of the speeder and ran to hug his friend.

"Finn. Nice to see you buddy." Poe greeted with a smile.

Just as they were about to talk, a resistance commander approached him and said "Sir, you might want to hear this."

Finn and Poe entered the control room and the commander tacitly gestures to the technician to play a recording. The same screams and roars from an unknown creature were heard.

Poe shook his head, he's letting his men die over his overconfidence.

"That's at that research facility, you were at, Commander." The commander stating the obvious.

"A squad has been sent to investigate the incident and take it out." He continued.

"Good. Keep in contact with them." Poe ordered, hiding his anger. "Report back to me any findings." Poe also suggested.

The commander saluted "Understood, sir."

Finn followed Poe out of the control room and he noticed he was gearing up again.

"Wait, Poe? You're going out there again?" Finn didn't want to admit but he knew Poe was pushing himself hard on being a leader.

"Yes. They're my team. I was stupid to leave them without having a squad with them. I can't leave them behind. I'm not a coward." Poe firmly said as he put on his gloves and checked for his gun.

"I want to come along." Finn suggested.

Poe shook his head as he said "No, stay here. I'm not losing you again. You could die from this. We don't even know what this creature could do or how dangerous it is. Besides, aren't you gonna go with Rey?"

Finn kinda blushed and tried his best to do his exaggeration. "Uh... no. She doesn't even like me at all. She said I was too stupid to understand this 'jedi stuff."

Poe chuckled as he gestured someone behind him.

Finn looked at him confused then jerked his head to see Rey was standing behind him, crossing her arms and looking at him with a raised eyebrow, and obviously heard what he just said.

Poe patted his back and said "Yeah you're clearly going with her."

Rey shook her head and walked past him as Finn turned to chase after her, shouting "Wait, Rey!"

Rey was walking ahead in the hallway as Finn was running and caught up to her.

"Rey..." He panted. He took a breath as he tried to make a sentence, "I..." He panted again.

"I... didn't... mean... to... say... that... I was just saying..." He took one last breath in and exhaled finally calming himself after all the running. He continued."That to go to the mission with Poe. I'm worried about him. He's stressing so much to try and defend all of us. Ever since she died."

Rey looked at him and said "I wasn't insulted by what you said." She chuckled a bit at his confused reaction.

"I was going to tell you that we were ready to go and then when I heard that you were wanting to go on the mission with him, I assumed you were going but it seems you lied to him just to go." Rey stated smiling.

"Yeah...but... so you're not mad." Finn asked, still confused by Rey's reaction.

Rey chuckled again. "No, I'm not mad. I walked away just to get a few spare parts for the Falcon."

Finn mouthed to himself "Oh."

As Rey started to enter her room, she started to have visions past and future.

Images of Snoke, Ben, Luke, Han, and Darth Vader's breathing flashed into her mind. She stated stumble around for a bit before regaining her stance. She then took the parts she needed and went out of her room.

She thought to herself, what was that?

She ignored and went with Finn into the Falcon.

Poe heads out onto the outskirts with his team heading off into great speed, in manner of minutes, they arrived at the old base.

As Poe entered the base with the squad, he pulled out his blaster, and reminded "Keep guard. We don't know how powerful this thing is."

They entered fully inside awaiting an attack. What they saw was extremely disturbing, all dead bodies of the research team. Poe shook his head. He failed as a leader.

He shouldn't have left earlier and stayed with them. Then again he could've been killed, seeing all of this death enclosing on him.

A private approached him "Sir, scanners are picking up something."

"Is it the creature?" Poe asked, already knowing the answer.

"Possibly, but it's weird." The private replied.

Poe was about to see the scanners until a scream was heard as well as a roar. Blasts could be heard echoing outside from the resistance and the First Order fighters.

"Ten O'clock clear." A squad member reported.

"Nine O'clock clear."

"Three O'clock clear."

A roar was heard and loud slam was heard beside a hollow wall. Poe ordered them to fire at it. The shots kept ricocheting off the creature as it crashed the through the wall, pouncing on the men.

"Set to stun!" Poe ordered.

They fired in stun mode, nothing. It made them look weak to the creature. It roars even louder.

Poe realizing there's no hope, ordered everyone to escape and quickly too. The creature with all of it's strength, started to pounce on the men trying to escape.

Heading to their speeders and flying off, the creature proceeds on following, creating a chase between them.

[Circarpous System]

Kylo and his fleet of TIE Fighters have approached the planet, along with a Star Destroyer behind it, sending in more TIE Fighters.

"All fighters circle around me." Kylo ordered

The blackness in space contrasted with the somewhat greenish-beige planet surrounding it. There was a transport ship heading its way mid-direction of where Kylo was heading.

Kylo ordered "Three of you, take out that transport ship."

Three TIE Fighters affirmed their order and proceeded to break the circle and aimed at the resistance transport ship. It only took five shots to take its shield and then one shot to their engines.

[Inside Transport Ship]

"Captain, we can't take more hits!" An officer reported. The captain was about to say something until on one shot was hit onto the ship in its engines again causing a massive explosion in space.

[C-Base; outer area]

A scouter looked above to see the transport ship exploded. She took off the Macrobinoculars and reported to the nearby officer.

"Sound the alarms! The First Order is here!" she screamed.

[C-Base; Alarms ring]

"The First Order is here!" An officer shouts.

"Move!" Another shouts.

Everyone is in a frenzy.

Rey and Finn trying to put their stuff inside the Falcon. Chewbacca roars, telling they have everything they need.

The Falcon closes the hatch door and manages to fly off from C-Base.

Rey and Chewie pilot the ship with Finn sitting in the back and with C-3P0 siting with R2 beeping crazy.

"I don't know, R2." Threepio kept on saying.

As they kept flying into space, TIE fighters kept bombarding them.

Kylo recognized the Falcon and chased after it.

Finn noticed this and said "That's Ren."

Rey muttered "Ben..." She took a deep breath. Trying to allow inner peace replace her thoughts instead of everything else.

"Let him chase us." Rey commanded.

Finn and Threepio asked in a frantic tone, "What?!"

"I know what I said! Let him chase us!" Rey commanded again.

She pilots, headed for the sky, as Kylo chases the Falcon, really, really fast.

"Wait, stay low. It confuses the tracking! Like last time on Jakku!" Finn suggested and she did just that and Kylo pursues faster than ever.

Kylo starts firing and Rey tries to turn away from the shots. Chewie roars suggesting to Finn he should be on the guns.

Finn ran into the gunner's seat and buckled up. He started to fire back at Kylo, but Kylo spun his ship to dodge the blasts.

Finn was astonished by that move then proceeded on firing some more. Nothing.

Kylo retaliated by firing at the engine, the damage was a bit done, but wasn't enough to take down the Falcon. He immediately knew what Rey was doing, fly him low until she turns into a different direction and he hits into a boulder or worse. He flew into the sky and tried firing form there. A couple of shots missed.

Everyone was trying to move out of C-Base, a lot of Resistance ships whether transport, fighter, etc. managed to pass the Star Destroyer and go into hyperspace to the rendezvous.

Approximately 780 X-Wing fighters, 900 TIE Fighters were in space. The X-Wings dogfight with the TIE Fighters on the surface of Circarpous was small in few. About 45 X-Wings and 67 TIEs piling onto each other.

"Protect all ships until further orders from Commander Poe!" An X-Wing fighter ordered.

"Red group, defend the Falcon." A fighter captain ordered as all of the Resistance fighters did what they were told.

Kylo noticed a barrage of X-Wings incoming, that's when he spun himself turned around and started firing at them. He knew what they were doing trying to do, defend the Falcon. Kylo maneuvered to a different position and fired at every resistance fighter that was coming his way, he destroyed 6 of the 9, he noticed incoming.

Rey and Chewie flew the Falcon across a barrage of fighters and past flying lasers as Finn fired all that he could do. He destroyed about two TIE fighters that were chasing them to death.

Kylo quickly noticed the Falcon heading straight for him, so he tried taking his shot. He fired his shots and it landed on the Falcon's center top. He kept firing but missed his shots. He took one more shot hitting its back quarter and that caused the Falcon to burn up real quickly, he kept firing again and again till it came down onto the surface.

Rey tried pulling as did Chewie above the surface, but it was no use, the Falcon's systems was frying up, sparks kept flying and they crashed abruptly into the ground as it started to burn around a few areas. Rey and Chewie were knocked out for a bit before Finn ran and tried waking them up. He was quite injured himself and his clothes had a few soot on it. He was pressuring himself to wake up his friends, Threepio and Artoo were surprisingly find, but they exited out of the Falcon.

Rey quickly took in breath and woke from her knock-out. Finn rapidly said "Let's go. They're gonna blow us up! Hurry!"

Rey instantly jerked out of her seat and tried waking Chewie up.

With an intense spurge of energy he woke up letting out a roar of pain, mostly from minor injuries.

In a swift, he followed Finn and Rey outside of the Falcon, and awaiting patiently for them were Artoo and Threepio.

Firing lasers and debris all surrounding them to a single point. About five command shuttles landed near where the Falcon crashed.

Exiting from the shuttles were First Order Stormtroopers, ready for a fight. Finn and Chewie taking cover from the Falcon, proceed to fire back at them.

Rey looking around at the battlefield, couldn't believe it. She get something was off, this attack, this feeling she tried to neglect kept swarming into her mind.

"Something's not right..." She stated worryingly.

Finn jerking his head after hearing her comment, looked confused.

Rey closed her eyes and used the Force to find what was going on.

In midst of the dog-fight, Kylo Ren sensing her presence decides to talk to her using the Force.

Don't fight it, Rey.

Rey, feeling unease, hardening herself to anger quickly tried to get him out of her thoughts.

Leave me alone!

I cannot.

Why?!

You'll soon find out.

Find out about wha?! I refused to join you!

You don't have to be afraid no more. I can end your pain.

I'm not scared of you.

Then you come closer to me.

Never!

Losing concentration, Rey retreated to the battle at hand, and pulled her blaster, trying to take out the Stormtroopers.

However, without notice, Kylo swooped down and fired at the Falcon causing a massive explosion near the trio.

Chewie roared out of anger, never daring anyone fire at his old friend Han's ship. He fired with all of his might at Kylo's ship.

Rey, again, feeling unease, Kylo was returning to her mind.

Your mind games need to stop.

Oh really?

Yes. I don't need you at all.

For someone strong in the Force, you sure are struggling to understand its true nature.

And that is?

Like I said before, you'll soon find out.

Kylo swooped down again and took even more shots at the Falcon. Chewie accurately fires at one of Kylo's wings, causing a negative crash near the opposite direction of where the Falcon crashed and Stormtroopers approaching massively.

He took a few breaths before exiting the cockpit, trying to do what he always wanted. Destroy the Resistance.

Rey stared at him from the far distance. Finn quickly turned to see her and saw what she was looking at: Him.

He quickly raised his blaster and aimed, But was prevented with a shout of "no" out of Rey.

"Rey? What are you doing?" Finn asked still even confused at his friend's actions.

"Let him come here." She said. "To us."

"Are you crazy?!" He wasn't sure if he heard that, she wants the man who murdered Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, and Leia Organa.

"I can distract him. We can capture and end the First Order once and for all." Rey stated calmly explaining her idea to Finn.

"I disagree. Take him out now and avenge the veterans who fought to keep the galaxy safe." Finn retorted as he started to raise his blaster and take aim while walking towards Kylo Ren.

"Finn? Finn, no!" Rey screamed chasing after him.

Kylo noticed the two individuals he remembered on Starkiller Base approaching him. He smirked "Irony at its finest."

He walked towards them really fast and ignited his lightsaber.

End. Tell me what'd you think ;)