Battle for Crait Six:
The First Order walkers are advancing. The turrets on the parked corvettes opens fire and hits their targets, but the walkers take the punishment. The walkers continue their advance and eventually return fire, their big dorsal-mounted cannons hitting the corvettes shields.
Holdo and Maz leave the balcony and walk inside. There, Poe and Finn are waiting.
"Will this work?" Holdo asks.
"We will give them a fight" Finn says. "I can promise you that."
"Good" Holdo says.
Poe hits a button on the wall and massive blast-shields lower to cover the windows.
First Order flagship, The Supremacy:
Rey and Luke are escorted through the flagship, twenty stormtroopers ahead of them and sixty behind them. Kylo walks directly in front of the two prisoners.
"What's the matter, nephew?" Luke asks. "Are you not happy to see me after all these years?"
"It was a mistake to come back, uncle" Kylo says. "You would have been better off in exile."
"On that, we agree" Luke says. "But it was not my destiny. Just as your destiny is not to be controlled by Creel."
"The Supreme Leader is wise. I would be a fool to not heed his council."
"You're a fool to listen to him at all" Luke counters.
"And I was not a fool when I listened to you?"
"I made mistakes" Luke admits. "I thought I knew what was best for you. I was wrong. But despite all my faults, I never tried to use you or your powers for my own gains. Unlike Creel."
"The Supreme Leader has been my guide. He has been like a father to me. Without him and his training, I wouldn't have achieved half of my powers by now."
"Powers that had you kill your real father" Luke says.
Kylo stops and turns to look at Luke. "And my mother."
"And for what?" Luke asks. "So that Creel can destroy the Republic? Conquer the galaxy? So that Creel can betray and kill you before you grow too powerful?"
"The Knights of Ren do not betray one another. We are not Sith. We are not Jedi."
"Is that what you think?" Luke says. "Creel convinced you to betray all of your fellow students. Creel convinced you to help murder them all. Betrayal is what Creel does best. He will betray anyone to gain power, and he will not hesitate to kill to hold on to the power he has gained."
"And are you so innocent?" Kylo asks with a frown. "Did you not betray me when you held me back! Have you not betrayed her?!" Kylo growls and points at Rey. "You haven't told her, have you? You know the truth by now, don't you?"
"I know the truth" Luke says. "And you're right. I haven't told her."
Kylo frowns. "Now you know why I turned against you."
Kylo turns and they all continue to walk through the ships corridors.
Millennium Falcon:
Stormtroopers search the ship, open hidden compartments in the floor and search them too. A black BB-unit rolls up to an officer and beeps and chirps.
"The ship is empty" the officer says. "We're done here."
All First Order troops and droids leaves the ship. A wall-panel gets pushed open and inside, Chewie sits on top of R2 in the miniscule compartment. Chewie snarls and R2 beeps angrily, neither of them happy with the tight confinement, and they get out of their hiding-place. R2 leaves the ship together with the small robot and enters the large hangar-bay and crosses it and moves up to a wall and hooks up to a droid-socket. A small maintenance-hatch opens in the wall and the smaller robot drives inside.
Battle for Crait Six:
The First Order walkers and the corvettes exchange fire. One of the walkers succumbs to the incoming fire and topples over. A command-shuttle, more like a hovering bunker, hovers behind the First Order frontlines and onboard Colonel Relmar oversees the attack on the base.
"The rightmost corvette has the weakest shields. Move up troops to increase pressure on that ship" Relmar tells his officers.
Four AT-ST's armed with a single, large cannon moves up behind the larger walkers and opens fire at the rightmost corvette in the distance.
The main gate to the base slowly begins to open, dust falling from its cracks and edges.
On the First Order command-shuttle, Colonel Relmar takes a step closer to the viewports. "The main gate is opening" he says. "Be ready for an enemy countermove. Have eighth and ninth company standing by."
The gate opens in full and slowly, exiting the base through the open gate, are three old imperial design AT-AT walkers!
Finn is standing behind the Republic soldiers operating one of the walkers, command-periscope lowered. He is scanning the First Order walkers up ahead. "This is Walker One. Remember, go at 'em at full speed. They have the better guns, but nothing beats old imperial vehicles when it comes to thick, heavy, durable armor."
Poe and Rose pilots one of the other walkers.
"Roger that, Walker One" Poe says. "Walker Two is running like the wind."
Rose shakes her head. "More like crawling like a slug."
The three imperial walkers are moving up between the two corvettes.
Finn locks on to one of the First Order walkers using the periscope. "Target locked. Maximum firepower."
Walker One fires its main cannons and hits its target, forcing a First Order walker to take a sidestep to not lose balance. But the within moments the First Order walker continues to advance on the base.
Hangar-bay, The Supremacy:
R2 turns and twists his extended computer-link that is inserted in the droid-socket with his antenna sticking out of his head. Elsewhere, the small robot is driving through the airducts and cable-canals of the ship. R2 opens small hatches and at times shuts down laser-grids to allow the robot access to protected areas.
Creels throne-room, The Supremacy:
The large, round platform elevates up to the throne-room. On it stands Kylo Ren together with Rey and Luke Skywalker. Creel is watching a large hologram depicting the battle on the surface. As he looks up and sees Luke, he turns pale.
"No" Creel says. "It can not be… You brought him here?! You said you would kill Skywalker! And now, he is here! On my ship!"
The eight Knights of Ren takes a step forward and readies themselves for battle.
"He's my prisoner, master" Kylo says. "I thought you would enjoy seeing him die. Him and his apprentice." Kylo then walks up to Creel and hands him Luke's lightsaber. "His lightsaber."
Creel studies the weapon. "The weapon that defeated Darth Vader" Creel says. "A potent relic." The weapon comes apart in Creels hand until only the green kyber-crystal rests in his palm, the other parts bouncing off the floor around his feet. Creel then looks at Luke. "You were a fool to come out of hiding, Skywalker."
"I was a fool to leave in first place" Luke says.
"You were a fool that you did not realize your nephew's potential. His raw power! I knew that if I did not intervene, the Jedi would do the same mistakes all over again."
"Darth Vader disfigured you" Luke says. "Not the Jedi."
"The Jedi created Vader!" Creel snarls. "With their foolish doctrines and creeds, they made Anakin Skywalker into a monster that burned down the entire galaxy! I barely escaped with my life when Vader came for the Knights of Ren and killed us all, except for me. Now look at me! Disfigured, deformed and crippled. I will not let the Jedi rise and rebuild. And I will not let a Skywalker destroy this galaxy once again!"
"You're afraid" Luke says. "You know that only the Dark Side is strong enough to stop me. But you can not control it. It will kill you. So you needed Jacen to wield the Dark Side for you. You corrupted him and condemned him so that you could wield the powers of the Dark Side through him. You're nothing but a coward."
"Oh, I am strong enough to stop you" Creel frowns. "My powers have grown since last we met, Skywalker. I am more powerful than you can imagine."
Battle for Crait Six:
All walkers exchange fire, the corvettes open fire with their turbo-lasers. Each walker takes several hits. Walker Two takes a hit from a First Order AT-AT over the head.
"OH!" Poe exclaims, pale in the face. "We took that head on!"
Rose points at the viewport. "Cracked" she says.
Poe spots the crack in the armored glass and sighs. "These old imperial walkers sure knows how to take a punch." Walker Two shakes as it gets hit again. "Son of a…"
The two corvettes bring down another First Order AT-AT with their turbo-lasers.
On the hovering command-shuttle, Colonel Relmar studies the battle with a pair of magnoculars and then turns to his crew. "Those walkers are only a decoy. They are drawing fire away from the corvettes. Have our walkers concentrate fire on the corvettes; we must take them out and their turbo-lasers along with them."
Hangar-bay, The Supremacy:
A control-room overlooking the hangar-bay. Three officers operate it. One of them looks down at the Falcon, a coffee-cup in hand, and then heads to a panel on the wall.
"The tractor-beam stabilizers are fluctuating again" he says and pushes a couple of buttons. "Have repair-teams look at it first thing in the morning. And make sure they actually do something about it this time." He shakes his head and moves to the door. "I'm getting some more caffeine. You guys wants some?"
He opens the door as he asks his colleagues, but to his grand surprise, Chewie is standing outside of the door. Chewie growls and throws the coffee-drinking officer across the control-room, steps inside and grabs the closest crewman and slams his body into the wall-panels. The last of the crewmen frantically tries in his panic to draw his pistol, but Chewie takes two steps and grabs the man by the face and hits his head against the ceiling.
Down in the hangar-bay, R2 has seen the whole brawl, turns his head around and beeps in a way that he is trying to ignore the savage nature of the Wookie while he is still connected to the droid-socket in the wall.
Chewie moves to the panel controlling the tractor-beam and shuts down several systems, pulling levers, turning dials and flipping switches. He leaves the control-room and as the door closes behind him, he smashes the control-panel on the outside before he moves on.
Creels throne-room, The Supremacy:
Luke does not seem impressed. "I don't care how powerful you have become, Creel. All I know is, that when you have what you want, you will betray Jacen and kill him, because you fear what he might become. A Skywalker wielding the Dark Side. We both know that is something you can not allow. You fear it. You hate it. And you will kill Jacen before he becomes too powerful."
Elsewhere, The Supremacy:
The small robot comes to a stop next to a small ventilation-grid. In the hangar-bay, R2 turns and twits the link in the droid-socket. The robot opens up, revealing that it has carried something with it.
Creels throne-room, The Supremacy:
Creel frowns, a frown filled with hate and loathing. "You Skywalkers and your arrogance. It was your arrogance that turned the boy against you. It was arrogance that had your sister organize a rebellion against me. And it is arrogance that you think you can come here and challenge me!" Creel then turns to Kylo Ren. "Lord Commander! Fulfill your destiny and kill Luke Skywalker!"
Luke turns and looks at Kylo. Rey looks at Kylo too.
Kylo looks at Rey, at Luke and then at Creel. "No" he says.
Creel is furious! "TRAITOR!"
Luke allows for the smallest of smiles. "You've failed, your highness."
Creel turns to his Knights of Ren. "Kill Him!"
The eight Knights of Ren are about to attack, when Luke makes gesture with his one hand and all eight of the guards fly backwards and hits the walls, the windows and the statues and get knocked out.
"You're on your own" Luke says. "Surrender."
"On my own?" Creel snarls. "The Force is my ally… And I will destroy you!"
Creel picks up his cane and holds it with both hands. The top opens up, splitting in three prongs, and a fierce and wild lightsaber is activated, glowing dark purple! Creel is surprisingly agile when he lunges at Luke. Luke extends his hand and from the robot in the airduct, through the ventilation-grid, Anakin Skywalkers lightsaber comes flying through the air and ends up in Lukes hands! Luke manages to parry Creels strike just in time and the two of them end up with their lightsabers locked, inches from their faces.
Battle for Crait Six:
The weaker corvette loses its shields and starts taking hits to the hull. The walkers exchange fire as well. Walker Three loses a leg and gets hit two more times, toppling it over and it crashes hard into the ground.
"Walker Three is down!" Rose says, looking out from the cockpit of Walker Two.
"Keep going!" Finn says from Walker One. "Keep pushing right at them!"
Walker Two takes a hit to its main body.
Poe shakes his head. "How much more of this can we take?"
"Hopefully a lot" Rose replies, sitting next to Poe.
The First Order walkers keep firing at the unprotected corvette. Walker One and Two are closing in on them ( The First Order walkers are only slightly larger, as opposed to in the actual movie when they are twice the size of the old AT-ATs ). The corvette takes several hits and its crew begin to abandon ship via ladders and lifts. As the crew run for the base, the corvette succumbs to the incoming fire and topple over. Walker One and Two begin to walk in between the First Order AT-ATs, ending up with one enemy walker on either side.
Colonel Relmar lowers his magnoculars. "What the hell are they doing?"
Inside Walker One, Finn enters the transport-compartment where twenty Republic soldiers are waiting.
"Let's hope this works" Finn says as he puts on a harness.
On either side of the compartment, one soldier opens a side-door by sliding it open and a second adjusts a robot-arm/cannon. A cable with a maghook is launched by the arm/cannon and the hook sticks to the armored hull of a passing First Order AT-AT. While Finn begins to attach a link between his harness and the cable, another soldier is already good to go. He slides along the cable over to the First Order AT-AT, and when he reaches the hull, he sticks an explosive on a hatch, turns his head away, the hatch blows open and then he throws in a satchel-charge. The soldier detaches the maghook and swings down in under Walker One, moments before the First Order AT-AT suffers a massive internal explosion that brings it down!
Finn slides over along his cable. He hits the hull of the enemy walker, attaches the explosive and blows open the hatch. As he is about to throw in the satchel-charge, an AT-ST opens fire at Walker One, hitting the open side-door. The cable gets blown and Finn falls and hangs from the cable, halfway down to the ground. Flames and smoke escapes the cracked side-armor of Walker One.
Walker Two does the same thing. Both soldiers sliding over are successful and the result is two First Order walkers exploding and falling over.
"Yeah!" Poe howls. "Take that you god damn bastards!" Poe angles his cannons and opens fire, destroying an AT-ST further up ahead.
From the command-shuttle, Colonel Relmar sees the entire line of walkers. Five of his eight are currently burning.
Relmar turns to his officers, red in the face. "Ignore the corvette! Take out those walkers!"
Finn is still hanging from the cable, trying in vain to climb it.
Creels throne-room, The Supremacy:
Creel and Luke are engaged in an epic lightsaber-duel! Kylo and Rey can only watch. Creel throws a statue towards Luke, who splits it in a dozen pieces with the use of the Force. The duel continues. Luke throws one of the larger pieces from the broken statue at Creel, who strikes it to the side with his lightsaber. The two combatants end up aiming their lightsabers against one another.
"You see?" Creel says, suffering pain throughout his body but ignoring it. "I have become your equal."
"If that is the limit of your aspirations" Luke says, "you're more pathetic than I thought."
Creel snarls and lunges at Luke!
Hangar-bay, The Supremacy:
R2 hurries across the hangar-bay and follows Chewie up the ramp. Chewie hurries to the cockpit and starts up the Falcon. Officers run over to the control room and desperately tries to get inside in order to stop the Falcon from taking off. As stormtroopers fire their blasters in vain at the Falcon, it takes off and backs out of the hangar-bay and enters space.
Creels throne-room:
Creel and Luke continue their epic duel. Creel uses a Force Push, Luke takes a step back and drops his lightsaber. Creel lunges, stabbing Luke at the chest. Rey and Kylo watch in silence but their faces tells us everything. Luke is down on a knee, Creel is leaning in against him with his lightsaber, the blade aimed at Luke's chest. But Luke is not dead, not even wounded. With both hands, Luke is blocking the purple lightsaber from impaling him through the chest; an incredible display of raw power!
( You might recognize this from the fight between Darth Malgus and Satele Shan on Alderaan. And yes, that served as inspiration for this scene/moment. I mean, how awesome would it be to have seen Luke Skywalker pull that off while fighting Snoke? )
Luke's lightsaber, lying on the floor, flies through the air and ignites. Creel swings his weapon and blocks the deadly attack and Luke catches his lightsaber in his hands once more.
"Impressive" Creel says. "Blocking my strike and then attacking me from behind. Your powers have grown too. By now you must realize that I can anticipate your every move. As you can anticipate all of mine. We can go on like this forever. We are equals! Our powers are equally impressive."
"Equals? Now who is the arrogant one?"
Luke swings his lightsaber low, cutting the floor and throwing up splashes of molten metal at Creel. Creel flinches and growls from the pain and is only barely able to parry Luke's incoming attacks. Luke has the upper hand and is forcing Creel back!
To be continued…
So in my story, we learn a bit about what motives Snoke/Creel and where he comes from. Why he decided to turn Jacen Solo. He hates the Jedi and the Sith. And he feels betrayed by the Skywalker family in a way. And Kylo Ren realizes at last that he has been used all along by Creel, so that Creel could have an attack-dog juiced up with the Dark Side. And down on Crait, instead of having a boring sequence with speeders attacking walkers and then doing nothing, no fight at all, and instead of having Finn trying to crash into a really big gun, we have some cool walker versus walker action. At least, the way I envision it in my mind it's really cool.
