Officer Melnet was very forthcoming with information. Information that Saeva smoothly acted nonchalantly about, following up with questions in regards to the needed new ration quotas and water main of the Finalizer. She was trying to mask her inquire into the prison cells, so this Officer, nor Hux could decipher her true intent from this conversation.
Act as smooth as possible was all Saeva could think. The Officer and herself walked down the long hallway to her quarters. She began to press the Officer about her background, causing Melnet to blush at the personal attention. She droned on about being wealthy in a upper planet that supplied the Empire before it was trendy. The Officer even tried to make a loose claim that her grandfather preferred her family to most. Saeva merely nodded at the statement, knowing full well her grandfather preferred everything for himself.
He didn't even attempt to protect his family or legacy, just himself. How did she end up in the grim, dangerous planet like Enarc, if he was so all knowing and powerful. Her mind drifted as the Officer droned on and on about her wealthy vacations and eventual decision to join the Order.
Thankfully, a noisy commotion disrupted her monologue.
They spun around to see Hux tossing Kylo to the ground and hitting him heavily with a fist. Kylo roaring back, tossing them to wall. Saeva could tell his powers were dulled, he would have already choked Hux by now or thrown him through a window. They were equal in this physical bout.
The two had just reached her quarters, which was a dead end to the hall. The quarreling leaders were coming from the elevators. She turned to Officer Melnet. Her mind clear.
"Officer, I need you to report this incident to the board of trustees."
The Officer stilled, trying to watch the two men, but glanced at Saeva.
"Do as I say, as Advisor, a third party must report this. For the good of the Order."
A loud grunt could be heard down the hall.
The Officer stared at them, her face torn.
"Do I make myself clear. Officer."
"Yes, Ma'am."
With that, the Officer scurried down the hallway, barely escaping past the men as they pummeled one another.
Saeva walked smoothly and slowly up to them, and watched them fight. She leaned up against the hallway wall, waiting.
Hux's military training was allowing him to put up a strong effort against Kylo, but his build lacked where Kylo thrived. He was still a trained warrior. Saeva waited patiently for the fight to go too far.
It finally reached it peak when Hux was on his stomach, face shoved into the floor by Kylo's boot, when Kylo ignited his lightsaber.
Saeva grabbed his arm as he attempted to swing downward onto Hux.
Kylo growled at her.
"Isn't this what you wanted me to do?"
Saeva gripped his arm tighter, feeling the heat spark off the lightsaber.
"I would never ask you to kill anyone. Never again. Not even Dameron."
He paused, a torn look in his face. She pressed back.
"You know the consequences of this. If you kill him."
Kylo tossed his hair back out of his face, she noted blood coming from his nose, and watched him extinguished his saber. He pulled his arm out of her grasp.
She stepped back and watched Hux slowly get up. His eye was already swelling and bloodshot. He glared at Ren and then her. Kylo grabbed Hux by the throat and shoved him up against the wall. He bellowed at him.
"Turn the gate down. Give me back what is mine."
Hux chuckled.
"Hard to prance about without your magic powers, Supreme Leader?"
Kylo ignited his saber again.
"Kylo."
Saeva spoke sternly to him. Like she was scolding a child.
Hux spit out blood from his mouth onto the floor, still making no move to make a change.
Saeva bypassed Kylo and grabbed Hux's com link from his left upper pocket, where he always kept it. She chirped the main bridge.
"This is Advisor Palpatine."
Saeva paused, she never referred to herself in her grandfather's blood like that before. General Furo answered.
"Advisor, How can I assist you?"
"Lower the system. The force dampener system to its lowest setting."
"Advisor, We just need the code setting. The General has it."
Saeva rolled her eyes and looked at Hux, who was still being held tightly by the throat against the wall.
Hux merely cocked his eyebrow and smirked. He was challenging her.
Saeva paused for a moment and tried to think of his quirks of his, and figure oht what she had learned about him. What code would he use? A success? A failure? It hit her hard when she realized what the code was.
"FN-2187"
Hux's face dropped and Kylo released him to whip around on her. His face a bit in shock by her answer.
"Very good, Ma'am. One moment to enter it."
Saeva held her breath as she waited.
"The lowest setting has been set, anything else?"
"Not at this time, thank you."
Saeva could feel a spark of force sensation hit her, but it wasn't her full connection. Kylo had his eyes closed and looked re-ignited.
He turned back on Hux.
"General, you have tested me for the last time."
Hux didn't seem any less nervous around Kylo as before and stared back at him with defiance.
"Supreme Leader, I merely wanted to showcase the damper system's true potential. Get you back on my level."
Hux was growling at him.
Saeva interrupted them both before they could continue their verbal warfare.
"I've had Officer Melnet report this incident to the investors and trustees to the First Order."
The two turned their attention back to her.
"You both battling out ownership of the First Order, putting it in jeopardy with this alpha fight. In front of inferiors. The funding may be less likely to arrive from now on."
Saeva looked at them cooly.
"As much as I would love to see you two tear each other apart, I'd rather see it when the First Order has truly established power. Who knows, maybe the investors will need someone with more levelheaded thinking to take it from here. We are no longer at war, What use is a General? And if We are removing the Force...why keep a Force sensitive as a leader?"
Hux began to speak, but shut his mouth. He was a bit speechless.
Kylo was a bit angry and slightly impressed by Saeva. He was trying to push into her mind, she could sense it. Her force strength wasn't strong enough to fight him off for long. Her heart began to beat fast and she thought of a quick exit.
"General, Let me put some Ice on that face."
Saeva felt herself reach out and take Hux's hand. A gesture so foreign to her. She pulled him away from Kylo and grasped his arm.
She called over her shoulder at Ren.
"I would check on Rey, make sure the dampener didn't short-circuit her cell."
It was a shot in the dark to separate them, but Kylo was moving in the opposite direction before she could turn back. His true priority always Rey.
She guided Hux into his quarters and pointed for him to sit on the couch. He did so, a blank look on his face.
She crossed to his liquor car and placed Ice in a plastic baggie. She returned to find Hux with his head leaned up the back of the couch. His posture terrible, and staring off in the distance. It was unlike him.
Saeva sat on her knees on the couch next to him, her knees facing the back of it. Carefully, she placed the Ice on his left eye, causing him to hiss. She held it there.
"I can get a medical droid for this."
"Did you ever have a life without droids doing everything for you?"
Hux said nothing to that. He wouldn't look at her. She felt a bit of shame, which made her want to smack herself. Why should she feel any shame?
She spoke softly to him.
"Your upset I had the Officer tell the investors."
He sighed and spoke calmly back.
"On a very growing list of things I am upset with you about."
Ah, Kylo. It merely happened moments before this grand explosion. She had already tried to wipe it from her own memory.
"I won't apologize for what happened with Kylo. It was bound to happen."
She removed the Ice, and he finally looked at her.
"Did you do it to hurt me?"
Saeva was a bit shocked by the question. She didn't believe she could emotionally hurt Hux. She spoke truthfully.
"I did it for me. I need some comfort. Can you blame me?"
Saeva placed the Ice back on his face, his hand coming up to hold her hand that was holding the Ice in place. He said nothing, staring off with his other eye. She spoke again.
"Did I hurt you?"
Hux looked back at her. His voice stern.
"No."
Saeva watched his eye look away from her.
"Liar."
She pulled her hand from his and turned to move away, but he grabbed her down to him. Her heart began to race a bit.
His face looked different. A longing and desperate look settling behind his eyes. He spoke softly suddenly.
"I'm sorry for the way I am. What I have done to you. But This is who I am."
Saeva froze in place, her heart thrumming a mile a minute. He pushed away a piece of hair from her face. He softly spoke again.
"I've know you've never known an easy life, but neither have I. I watch you and how you are with others. How can you be so different than me?"
Saeva realized she was seeing a new part of Hux in this moment. His vulnerability was unnerving.
"Is that why you needed Ren, because he is bends to his emotional needs? He chooses to feel everything. Something I can not afford to do."
Saeva said nothing, she just felt his heart beating under her hands that were on his chest. It was calm and controlled pace. He spoke out loud, not expecting her to answer.
"He loves that girl. Why would he risk that with you?"
Saeva paused at the question.
"Because I understand the darker part of him. His history. A part she can't reach. The part he doesn't want to show her."
Hux's heart began to thrum under her hands. He flipped them onto the couch, placing her underneath him, yet Hux was gentle with holding her. He kissed her softly.
Saeva felt responsive to it. Her mind formulating a way to allow this.
Hux pulled away for a moment and stared down at her. His bruised face gentle.
"You are everything I want."
His words stilled her and she bite her lip for a moment. Determined to set a course she may regret later.
Saeva pulled him down to kiss her and felt a warmth from him from the first time.
He made love to her on the couch, being oddly gentle with her. Careful, even.
When he entered her, he whispered about her beauty. Sweet kisses at her neck and chest. He held her tight, focusing on her pleasure. The rhythm being slow.
It wasn't rushed or brutal like he was. He was actually trying his best to be better for her in this moment. She even caught him catching himself from starting a harsh pace.
The idea of her loving Ren must of tormented him. He wanted to possess her in all the wrong ways, he must of determined that this approach may work.
Too late was all Saeva could think.
When she climaxed underneath him quietly, she held onto his arms and bit her lip. A soft sigh escaping her.
He seemed a bit lost in watching her, nearly stopping his own motion all together.
He pulled himself closer into her, and finished with a loud groan. His heart beating against hers. She leaned her head against the side of his face. Enjoying the lack of rage and control he always possessed.
Maybe in another life she could have loved him. A different world.
But not in this one.
She allowed him to pull her into his bed. Make love to her twice more, before exhaustion forced him to drift off to sleep.
Saeva stared at his back as he lay facing away from her. She counted the freckles on his back until she knew it was well late into the night.
At one point he turned over and in his sleep grasped her wrist. It was tight and painful, but it was for a mere moment. He released her wrist.
When she finally felt that he had dove deep into his sleep. She slipped out of the bed.
She quickly showered in his fresher, and wrapped herself in a towel, stepping back into the room.
When she returned to the room, she noticed he was still in the same position, breathing deeply.
She put her underwear back on but used one of his black button shirts to put on. It was a bit large in length and covered enough of her bottom.
Both Ren and Hux had teared at her shirt today, that now it was no longer savable.
Saeva felt color drain from her face. The realization of her behavior today.
In one day, she was so thoughtless and careless, emotional. She was with the two most dangerous men in the galaxy, and did so without a blink of an eye. She needed a drink.
She wandered into the living quarters and had a small glass of whiskey. Her heart starting to thrum again.
Hux's data pad sat on the side table near the liquor table. She thought of grabbing it, but her mind thought of the cameras.
Hux's words ringing in her ears. The cameras do not record if you are indecent. Saeva slipped her shirt off and held her breath as she made her move carefully. Praying that the cameras truly shut off in these moments.
She quietly moved to the data-pad. Her bare feet being so careful.
She lifted the pad and opened it up to find it unlocked. Quickly as she could, she pulled up the force dampener's blue prints. Her eyes searching for the location of the kyber crystals.
She quickly realized the crystals were in the castle, in Vader's palace, almost like a beacon. Not in the structure in space. Using the heat of the lava to generate more power.
Her mind stowed away as much information as she could read. Her ears picking up on movement in the bedroom. She closed the program, the screen and slipped the data pad perfectly where she found it. Exactly how she found it. Slipping on Hux's shirt.
She slipped back over to the whiskey and re-poured herself a drink. Hux's voice broke her calm. She faked him startling her.
"I see I've turned you onto a bad habit."
Saeva glanced over at Hux's bedroom entrance, he stood there shirtless with black bottoms on. His hair disheveled. Saeva glanced down at the whiskey.
"It's better than what my uncle use to drink."
She finished it and turned back to him. She approached him slowly, running her hands up his chest. Tracing the scars.
"Why are you awake?"
Hux traced his hands down her arms.
"I don't sleep much."
Saeva was rewarding his gentleness. He needed to be reassured. She kissed him on the lips, a chaste kiss, and slipped past him.
She slipped into his bed and watched him walk to the fresher. He emerged not too long after and slipped into the bed with her.
He carefully pulled her into his arms and held her. He looked so unsure by the intimate nature. It was foreign for him. She could tell.
She pulled into him, burying her face into his chest, settling. He seemed a bit stiff in the interaction, but Saeva traced her fingers softly on his chest. Lulling him into comfort.
She started to drift to sleep when he startled her.
"You won't touch him again."
His mind must have returned to earlier in the day. His possessiveness returning in his hold. She had to quell it.
"I'm here, aren't I?"
She pulled closer to him, a new sense Of alertness. She lay awake as he fell asleep holding her. Her mind formulating and plotting.
—-
Saeva awoke to an empty bed, but a breakfast tray on the side. The aroma of coffee awaking her. She chomped away at the meal and sucked down the coffee.
Sipping at the juice, she glanced around Hux's quarters.
His uniforms were perfectly displayed. No
Artifacts from his home planet or beginnings. No photos.
She stretched as she rose from the bed and walked around his quarters for the first time. Really trying to examine it. She kept her attire, shirt with her underwear bottoms.
Her awareness of him being able to watch her at any point played into what she was trying to do. He didn't leave his data pad behind, but she found some journals of the Generals of the Empire.
She settled herself on the couch and read for the majority of the day. Only stopping to eat and shower.
She played the role of relaxed guest perfectly.
As she laid on her stomach, finishing up the last chapter of a journal, Her heart started to race when she heard the quarter doors open, and she glanced up to see Hux standing at his bedroom entrance.
"You are still here."
His voice suspicious.
Saeva quirked her eyebrow and sat up facing him.
"Did you want me to leave?"
Hux pulled off his uniform jacket, placing it in his closet.
"You wanted nothing to do with me yesterday, but last night..."
"What happened with Ren changed my mind."
Saeva covered herself quickly. She spoke truly. Her mind was going a different path altogether.
"You were right about him. He isn't my savior. He cares about what he wants."
Hux seemed satisfied with the answer. It insulted Ren enough to distract him. He spoke playfully.
"You were very swift with your diplomatic move against Ren and I yesterday. I had to quell many fears from investors all day. Inform them that The leadership of the Two of us were not imploding."
"Do you want me to apologize for teaching you both a lesson? I had to get you both to stop, before you killed one another."
Hux quirked his eyebrows at her playfulness back. He smirked and changed into his more relaxed wear.
He slipped onto the bed, taking the journal from her hand, tossing it. He loomed over her like a predator.
"I think you've had enough reading for today. You are getting too smart for your own good."
Saeva stared back at him, putting on her best lustful face she could come up with. He didn't seem to know about the data pd she read last night. He kissed her, pinning her down to the bed.
His com link chirped suddenly, pausing him.
Saeva leaned up her face, kissing his face. Trying to draw attention back to her. He begun to nuzzle back into her.
His com link chirped again.
He growled and released her. He tapped his com link as he sat up on his bed.
"This better be important."
"Sorry to disturb you sir, the power outages in certain sectors of the ship seem to be stemming from the dampener. We've rerouted power from the dampeners shields, to avoid the Finalizer from having power issues due to unknown waves. "
Saeva recognized Officer Melnet's voice.
"Very well, contact me once we go 24 hours without a power outage. I need everyone to be efficient."
"Yes sir."
Saeva pretended to not listen as Hux spoke on his com link. She kissed at his neck while he barked his order over the comm link.
Once the conversation ended, Hux pinned Saeva again.
"You little minx. I do enjoy this more when you show enthusiasm."
She giggled softly and wiggled underneath him.
He suddenly became more aggressive with his motions, no longer the gentle Hux from the night before, but in his General state of mind.
He was inside her before she could blink, thrusting hard. He started to whisper to her. Making her skin crawl about the subject.
"Ren literally pushed you right back into my arms."
She tried to slow him down, but he was too power hungry. She finally spoke out loud.
"Hux. Stop."
He surprised her and did stop. He stared at her, the power lust leaving his eyes. Remorse filled them.
"I-I—"
She moved him slowly to his back, silencing him, and placed herself on top. She slowed the pace and took over where he left them off. His eyes were closed as she moved.
"Saeva."
"Mmhph, yes?"
She moved painfully slow on top of him.
"Do you think you could ever love me?"
Saeva kept moving slowly on top of him, unsure of what to say, so she spoke carefully.
"Ask me tomorrow."
It wasn't a no to Hux and he climaxed pretty quickly underneath her. He held her hips tightly in his hands. Stifling a groan.
She slipped down next to him, lazily lounging across his chest. Her face blank, but he couldn't see it. He traced his hand down lazily down her back, each scar of hers touched by him.
His vulnerability was slowing eating at her. But she had to focus. She didn't love him.
How could she after all he had done? What Ren had done?
He suddenly spoke.
"I could get use to this."
Saeva mumbled and pretended to fall asleep against his chest. Not wanting to engage anymore.
She felt his breathing become steady and she tested his state by shifting to her side away from him. He turned and shifted the opposite direction to his side.
Her heart thrumming, Saeva laid still. Something was telling her to move. Move now.
Something was pulling her to make a move.
She slipped off the bed and moved into the lounge area. Throwing on her pre-placed pants, boots, and one of Hux's black long sleeved shirts was easy. She braided her hair in a tight bun, and removed any form of misplacement.
Opening the quarter doors was not an easy task. She had to quietly rewire the door to open with no beeping noise.
Slipping out, she glanced to her right, sensing Ren's presence in his quarters. She was unsure if he was asleep, but she didn't dare to push her mind forward to awaken him if he was.
Saeva hastily moved toward the elevator, retracing her memory of what the Officer told her about the prison cells.
Level 127.
Saeva held her breath as she took the elevator down to the level.
When she exited, two troopers strolled by her in the hall.
One smacked the other and they both saluted her. She smiled and nodded back, before pausing.
"Troopers, Can you direct me toward the prison cells. I am to meet with the Supreme Leader and the Jedi prisoner. But I am lost."
"Ma'am, you are at the right level, just the wrong side. You have to walk a mile down that hallway."
"Thank you, Solider."
She moved past them as calmly as possible. Her heart beating.
Once they were out of sight, she broke into a sprint. Her speed returning to her. Once she rounded the corner where she could see more activity, she slowed.
The walls were lined with special piping, filtering towards a large glass cell. It glowed with the purple hues of the gas from the dampener, and it seemed to run the lining of the cell. She spotted a figure sitting in the middle of the floor, their face buried in their knees, arms over their head. It was a way to block the bright light of prison.
A Knight of Ren stood at the door. His attention focused forward, he had not noticed Saeva yet.
She paused.
She had not thought this part through. To fight a Knight of Ren was a step she skipped. She crept slowly up to him, almost hugging the wall. Her heart pounding.
As she was about a step away from him, her eye on his weapon at his waist, when she stilled. A sensation hit her.
Somewhat of a miracle happened. The power went out and the heavy lights blacked out. The Knight distracted by the power outage and Saeva took the chance, grabbing the weapon and sliced it through the Knight's back.
She was unable to see his body fall to the floor, but she felt his blood on her hands.
She fumbled searching for his body, and searching for a release card to the prison cell door.
As she stood to face the cell, the lights came back on.
Rey stood at the door staring her down. Her eyes had deep, dark shadows. She was tired, but more so confused. Her same typical gray attire on.
She really refused being truly a part of the First Order.
Saeva slide the key over the door and it opened.
Rey stepped cautiously outside the door. Her eyes unsure of what she'll find.
"We have got to get out of here."
Rey gripped Saeva's shoulders suddenly, really looking at her.
"This isn't a trick."
"No, but its going to seem like a nightmare if We don't move now."
Rey nodded and Saeva grabbed the cuffs from the guard's waistband. Her second kill. Shake it off, push through was all her mind could think.
Saeva slapped them on Rey, who knew what her mind was thinking. Just in case they were stopped. She didn't protest at all.
They walked briskly to the elevator, luckily not encountering a soul.
Saeva punching in the docking station once inside the elevator.
She noticed Rey was breathing as hard as she was. Her heart racing.
Before they exited the elevator, they both sensed something outside the door. Saeva gripped Rey by the arm and made her look like a prisoner.
As they strolled out of the elevator, a small group of 6 troopers passed by. They didn't pause at the sight of them, but kept moving. Saeva's heart was in her throat as they rounded the corner away from them.
The two women crossed to the docking station and slipped in carefully, hiding behind a cargo shipment. Saeva unlocking Rey's cuffs. At this point, if they were caught, Saeva wouldn't be able to talk them out of it. Rey having her hands was better plan.
They scanned the docking station for any troopers. She spotted two at the shield controls, one standing at attention, while another looked like he was sleeping.
Rey spoke softly.
"Okay, so We'll go for the Tie-fighter, shoot the guards and release the shields."
Saeva scanned the station again, her eyes settling on the perfect ship.
"I have a better idea."
Rey followed her gaze and chuckled.
"You are insane."
"Runs in my blood, I guess. I'll meet you on there."
Rey nodded and snuck off in the direction of Kylo's Upilson Command Shuttle.
Saeave head straight towards the Troopers. The one awake noticing her crossing towards them seem to have froze. She stood in front of them, arms behind her back, and did her best impression of Hux that she possible could.
"TROOPERS! What is the meaning of this?"
The sleeping trooper sparked awake.
They both saluted.
"In the days of my Grandfather, troopers caught asleep at their post were fed to the Rancors of the Hutts. Is that a policy I should advise the Supreme Leader to bring back?"
"Uhh-No Ma'am."
"Are you prepared to perform your duty?"
"Yes, Ma'am"
They saluted her again.
"Good, release the shield. I will not need to inform the Supreme Leader of your insolent behavior."
Saeva stepped away from them, and watched as Rey started up the command shuttle. Its glowing red lights shifting on.
Saeva walked cooly at the entrance of the ramp to the ship when the alarm began to echo through the ship.
"Dammit."
Saeva was half-way up the ramp, when Rey pulled up for lift off the dock. She grasped the ramp easily, but felt the sensation of being pulled.
Whipping around, she saw Kylo at the docking station entrance, his arms reaching out towards the ship. He was using his force ability to hold the ship in place.
Saeva could feel the strain of the ship pulling against the ship.
She heard Rey yell out to her.
"I can't push it. Its too tight to light-speed out of here."
She watched as a full trooper force entered behind Kylo, who was now visibly sweating and screaming, trying to maintain hold of the ship.
Hux entered, his face furious, screaming at the troopers to close the shields.
Saeva started to concentrate her mind, trying to draw what little force she could sense into her.
The ship straining still, she could hear bending metal. Rey yelling out to her to hold on as she tried to maneuver the ship.
Her mind began to gather memories of rage, pain, happiness, sadness, and now she had this powerful sensation of hope.
Her body felt almost tingly.
She shot her hand out and watched as electric wave flowed from her hands.
It struck the floor of the docking station, crossing to the area where the troopers were, knocking the first few troopers back. Saeva noticed it short circuited several ships on the docking bay. Even causing fires.
One wave hit a trooper so hard it threw him into Kylo, tossing him into the ground.
The ship lurched forward, making Saeva jump into the ship, off the ramp. She slammed the button to shut the ramp doors.
"Rey, Go! Go!"
She felt the shuttle push out of the Finalizer and into space. She joined Rey in the cockpit and stopped her from going into light-speed.
"Go to Mustafar, now."
"They are right behind us."
"Not yet, Most of their ships are disabled for the moment. But get to Mustafar. We have to destroy the dampener."
Rey maneuvered the ship towards the lava planet, at a high speed. A pile of Tie Fighters beginning to descend on them.
"They won't fire missiles on us."
"How do you know?"
Saeva smirked at Rey.
"They would have opened fire in the docking station."
Saeva marveled at Rey's piloting skills. Watching her graze over the buttons and knobs so knowingly.
Suddenly she dodged a giant stun blast by twisting the ship in a circle. Saeva promptly putting her seatbelt on after that jerky motion.
"Okay, I forgot they could malfunction the ship with stun blasts."
Rey pushed the ship straight into the Mustafar atmosphere suddenly in a sharp dive. The sensors going haywire as they descended. Ship shaking.
"What are We doing here?"
"We are going to destroy Vader's castle, thats the beacon keeping that gate functional. We destroy it. Well, your'e back to your full power."
"So are you."
Rey smiled over at her, as the ship jostled around. Saeva smiled back until suddenly two tie fighters collided in-front of them. Her smile wiped away.
"They were moving to quickly in this planet's atmosphere, you can't use your radar."
"Well hopefully, We can find the castle and blast it before they collide with us."
Rey got as close to the surface as possible, shifting around mini volcanos.
Saeva watching the radar for any incoming ships.
"We may have lost them for now."
"Or they are setting up defenses at the Castle. Protecting your family's crystals. I can't find it on the radar, the castle."
"Your'e right, my family's crystals."
Saeva surveyed the layout and closed her eyes. Her mind flowed outward towards the crystals that drew her into trouble in the first place. She suddenly felt them and was aware of their location.
She pointed to the map radar on the ship, clicking in the coordinates.
"There. Its there."
Rey whipped the ship to the left and sped towards the direction.
"How exactly are we going go blast an entire castle?"
I have a feeling the force is guiding us on this one."
Rey merely nodded and focused on driving the ship across the tough terrain.
The castle began to appear in the distance, with its looming dark tower now illuminated with a purple hue.
Several Tie-Fighters circled it.
"Okay, I'm gonna hit the structure at the base of the castle, near the refueling station. It looks like a potential strong hold. If that crumbles, the place should crumble and start Causing a greater eruption."
Saeva nodded, gripping her chair.
"Do it."
Rey shifted the ship into an even faster gear some how and pressed on the firing controllers of the shuttle.
It struck the base of the Castle, causing the refueling station to explode. Rey pulled the ship upwards to avoid Tie-Fighter blasts.
Saeva watched as the lava began to erupt and react to the now sinking foundation of Vader's castle.
"I think it worked."
Rey flipped the ship and shot an extra blast at the entrance of the ship. Lava beginning to rise even faster to consume the resources crumbling from the castle. A Tie-fighter lost control chasing them and after a quick move by Rey pummeled into the castle.
"I want to be sure."
Saeva and Rey circled twice, determined to see the castle sink. The purple hue dying out above the area. The tip of the castle crumbling down into the lava.
Rey pulled away, looking like she felt a wave of relief. She glanced at Saeva, who seemed to be noticing the same thing. The sensation of connection flowing between them again.
The destruction of the gate was complete and they already felt the affects of their reconnection to the Force.
Rey out ran two more ships and escaped the atmosphere of Mustafar with a few bumpy drops.
As soon as she hit space, she punched into light speed. Somehow Avoiding the brigade of First Order ships waiting for them at the surface by slipping past a break in formation. Slipping through the tiniest coordinates.
Saeva suddenly smashed into the dashboard of the control ship with a wrench she found, removing the tracker system installed. Snapping it in half. She startled Rey with the motion.
"Sorry, I read my fair share of First Order ships. I know they like to keep track of their things."
Rey nodded, taking a breath, and settling into her seat.
"The Force can feel like Fresh air sometimes."
She glanced at Saeva, who was also relaxing back into the stiff cockpit seat, putting her feet up on the dash.
"Why did you rescue me?"
Saeva looked at her.
"Cause if you knew it was me, in that position. You would try to rescue me."
Rey leaned her head back. The two feeling the exhaustion of their ordeal.
"How did you know the crystals were in the Castle? And not in the giant circular machine in the sky."
"Hux's data pad. As particular as he is. He makes mistakes."
Rey smiled, chuckling like a tired child.
"Poe calls him Hugs."
Saeva became a bit softer and sadder.
"Well, he's far from that."
"I can't imagine what you've been through. It was brave for you to defect like that."
"I never was with the Order, I was always trying to find my best way out. And sometimes that meant playing a part. Can't defect if you never truly joined."
"Well, for how far We got without getting caught. You played that part perfectly."
Saeva nodded and glanced at the coordinates for the light speed.
"Why are We going to Kessel?"
"To rescue my friends."
"We can't go there yet. We need to regroup. We should go to Naboo."
"Naboo?"
"Yes, my family is there. Your friends can handle themselves. I need to get to Naboo, before Hux decides to execute them."
"That's exactly where he'll expect you to go."
Saeva felt a rise in her throat.
"I need to save them."
"The First Order will be expecting you. Let me get my friends and We'll rescue them together. As a group."
Saeva paused, her thoughts drifting. She slowly agreed with Rey.
"They would expect Naboo first."
"Hux won't kill them, if he knows its his best leverage over you. Right?"
Saeva bite her lip.
"I don't know. He's unpredictable recently."
Rey paused, reading her face.
"You can't confront them right now. You need to regroup. Take time."
Saeva nodded and rubbed her face with a groan.
"I've done awful things."
Rey looked over at her. Her smooth voice to help calm her.
"Go get some rest. Real rest. I'll handle the rest from here."
Saeva nodded and dragged herself into the quarters portion of the ship. It was a medium sized room, with a queen bed, a few boxes of items, but nothing personal.
When she hit the pillow of the bed, her head spun for a moment.
Inhaling, she noticed that this was Kylo's sleeping quarters during excursions.
She managed to block the thought from her mind. Turning over, Saeva took another breath in, closing her eyes. Her focus on elsewhere.
She suddenly realized the Force was like a breath of fresh air indeed and smiled.