"We are back! today we take a dive into Poe's perspective as he meets Holdo for the first time and of course we will continue Evelyn's side of the story and I decided to add a little something special at the end of this chapter so I hope you enjoy this chapter just as much as I have writting it :)
Chapter 26: A Change Of Plan
The Resistance Ships were still being chased by The First Order ever since Evelyn left on her own mission in hopes to help her Resistance Family and despite being out cannon range they will still being hit by fire from the Star Destroyers.
The Fighters and staff of The Resistance were called to a meeting room for an important meeting which was being held by one of the Admirals and Poe and Finn was amoung the fighters in the room.
"General Organa...Leia is unconcious but recovering...thats the only good news I have" The Commander had emotion in her voice.
"Admiral Ackbar...all our leadership are gone" Her statement made the Resistance fighters and staff mumble to themselves.
"If she were here she would say save your sorrow for after the fight, to that end the chain of command is clear to who should take her place...Vice Admiral Holdo of the cruiser Ninka" The Commander stated and Poe was clearly not happy with the situation.
Finn looked over to Poe next to him and saw him troubled and he placed his hand on his friends shoulder and shook it and Poe looked at his friend and gave a small smile and soon a woman stepped forward in the Commander's place.
Admiral Holdo looked around at the Fighters and Staff and she could see the marks of war on every single one of them and right now the only thing she cared about was their survival.
"Four Hundred of us...on three ships, we are the last of The Resistance but we're not alone because in every corner of the Galaxy there are people who know our Symbol and they put their hope in it" Holdo gave her speech and Poe listened on carefully.
"We are the spark that will light the fire that will restore The Republic...that spark, this Resistance must survive...that is our mission" Holdo finally finished her speech.
"What about Evelyn Ryder, I heard she abandoned ship?" One Resistance fighter spoke out and Holdo looked at him and the rest of The Resistance started mumbling.
Poe listened to what they said and soon he stood up and everyone including Holdo looked at him as he looked at his fellow fighters.
"Evelyn...is on a mission under orders of General Leia, at first I thought she was abandoning us but we all know Leia would not ask Evelyn or anyone to take on a mission she wasnt sure of" Poe stated as everyone looked at him.
"I have known Evelyn for a long time, more then you know...I know she would not abandon us...she will come back and I believe that because she carries everyone of us in her heart and like her we must fight on" Poe looked around as everyone started calming down and some even nodded in agreement.
Holdo looked at Poe and nodded "Thank you Poe Dameran".
She looked around at everyone "Now to your stations and may the Force be with us".
Everyone stood up to go back to their stations and Finn looked at Poe "Thats Admiral Holdo? Battle Of Chiron Belt Admiral Holdo?".
Poe nodded at his friend "Yeah...not what I expected".
Finn looked at Poe as he went up to Admiral Holdo and then turned to resume his duties.
Poe came up to Admiral Holdo who was near a console with a few Commanders "Vice Admiral, with our current fuel consumption theres a very limited time we can stay out of range from those Star Destroyers".
Holdo looked at Poe and turned back to the console "Very kind of you to make me aware".
"And we need to shake them before we can find a new base so whats our plan?" Poe asked calmly.
Holdo looked at Poe and moved to the window looking out into space "Our plan Captain, Not Commander right?, wasnt it Leia's last offical act to demote you for your Dreadnought plan?" She then looked at Poe.
"Where we lost our entire bombing fleet?" Holdo then walked away and Poe already didnt like her but he had to know what was going on so he followed her and came back into her view and she stopped and looked at him.
"Commander, Captain call me what ever you like I just want to know whats going on" Poe asked calmly again.
Holdo smiled "Of course you do I understand, I've delt with alot of trigger happy fly boys like you, your impulsive, dangerous and the last thing we need right now so stick to your post and follow my orders" Holdo's voice became serious as she spoke and soon she walked away leaving Poe just looking in the distance and he then turned away knowing having Holdo in command was a bad idea.
Back in another section of the Galaxy Javik was still in the cockpit pressing a few buttons on his console and finally put his ship into auto pilot and leaned back in his chair with a sigh.
"What am I doing...Helping a Resistance Fighter against The First Order..." Javik sighed and got up and left the cockpit to find Evelyn and as headed down the hall to the living quarters he saw soon Evelyn sleeping on her side on a huge seat and Javik leaned on the wall and watched her for a few seconds.
To him she was beautiful and possibly the only person he could consider a true friend as he himself grew up with nothing until he met her on her shore leave and could never forget her and it made him chuckle remembering that night they had and then he heard her mumble in her sleep.
Javik looked to a container and headed to it and pulled out a blanket and went and gently placed it over Evelyn and she moved slightly as the blanket touched her.
"Rey..." Evelyn mumbled in her sleep.
Javik raised his eyebrows "Rey?" he thought to himself but he let it be and made sure the blanket covered her entire body and she soon relaxed and Javik turned and went to a nearby bathroom and checked himself out in a mirror.
"Guess its time to clean up" Javik said to himself.
While Javik was attending to himself Evelyn started mumbling again in her sleep.
Evelyn was walking down a path which was surrounded by darkness and she looked around and just saw nothing but was careful not to lose her footing from the path and thats when she heard a voice.
"You must find me" A man's voice echoed and she quickly looked around.
"Who are you?" Evelyn called out.
"Will will know soon enough child, I have waited so long to see you...you remind me of her". The unknown man's voice echoed.
"Grandfather...is that you?" Evelyn continued to look around.
"I have watched over you since you were born, just like my daughter and your father" The man's voice spoke again.
Evelyn looked around slowly trying to figure out where the voice was coming from "It is you isnt it...Leia said you spoke to her...why did she tell me to find you".
"You are something more and you are more important, more then you know" The man responded.
Evelyn heard a crash behind her and she saw a light getting brighter and brighter and soon everything went white "Find me my Grandchild...and the truth of your nature will be revealed to you".
Evelyn's eyes opened and she saw a wrench floating in front of her and she gasped and quickly got up and the wrench fell to the floor with a bang and she just looked at it and then heard a door open and she turned and saw Javik enter the room.
"Everything alright?" Javik looked straight at Evelyn.
Evelyn looked at Javik who cleaned himself by getting rid of his beard and cut his hair alot shorter.
"Its nothing something just fell and it startled me" Evelyn lied.
Javik looked at the wrench on the floor and went to pick it up and examined it "I thought I left this on the table?".
Evelyn looked at the table which was on the far side of the room and she knew it was impossible for the wrench to fall that far from the table.
Javik shrugged his shoulders "Must have had it in my pocket and it must have fallen out without me knowing". He then went to the table and placed it back on the table and then turned to Evelyn as he leaned on the table and crossed his arms.
"How you feeling anyway you look shaken" Javik asked.
Evelyn waved her hand "Just a bad dream thats all".
"About someone called Rey?" Javik asked.
Evelyn frowned "Rey?, how do you?".
Javik chuckled "You mumbled her name in your sleep"
Evelyn looked to her side "Oh...".
"Someone in The Resistance I guess?" Javik asked.
Evelyn crossed her arms and walked to the middle of the room "You could say that, I've only known her for a short time...she's on a mission of her own...to find Luke Skywalker".
Javik chuckled and it caught Evelyn's attention and he looked at her as he stopped chuckling "Sorry THE Luke Skywalker, the Legend they have been trying to search for how many years?".
"We have a map to his location, we know where he is" Evelyn defended.
Javik frowned "Wait if thats the case why hasnt The Resistance gone to get him, why send a girl that you just met?".
Evelyn thought for a moment and turned away from Javik with her arms still crossed "She's a Jedi...".
Javik's eyes widened "Jedi? I thought Luke was the last one?".
Evelyn just looked to the distance "He was and then she came along, she seems to have the Force".
Javik shook his head "The Force? you mean that magic trick where you can lift things?".
Evelyn turned to him "Yes...magic trick, either way she needs Luke to train her aswell and it makes sense, if she brings him back that means we will have two Jedi's on our side and the war will be won".
"You seem pretty confident what makes you think this Rey and Skywalker will change everything" Javik asked.
"Cause I believe" Evelyn defended.
Javik sighed "Still the same old Evelyn I met years ago, only you were nineteen back then".
Evelyn chuckled "Well I'm twenty one now".
Javik looked her up and down admiring her figure "Still drives me crazy".
Evelyn sighed and rolled her eyes "Javik that night was just a stress reliver we both know that, its never gonna happen again".
Javik raised his hands "I know I know, but seriously I consider you a close friend Evelyn possibly my best friend and I dont want to ruin that".
Evelyn gave a small smile "Thanks...guess your not so bad as a friend either".
They both chuckled and all of a sudden the ships alarms went off.
"We are about to collide with something!" Javik shouted as they both ran to the cockpit and quickly sat in their seats.
"Its a massive object, prepare to exit lightspeed" Javik stated as he pressed a few buttons and switches at lighting speed and soon the ship left lightspeed and in front of them they saw a huge ship.
"Damn its raiders" Javik stated.
"No...its something else" Evelyn looked on at the ship as it looked completely diffrent from any typical Raider ship.
"We need to get out of here" Evelyn stated as she looked at the ship.
Javik pressed a few buttons and tried anything that could help "Damn they locked out our systems I cant move the ship".
Evelyn snapped her head at Javik "This is no time for jokes get us out of here".
"I'm trying" javik defended.
Soon Javik's terminal in the cockpit went off and he switched it on and a Rodian come on the screen.
"Who is the Captain of this ship?" The Rodian demanded.
Javik looked at Evelyn and then turned his attention back to the screen "Uh I am Javik uh listen if you are one of the guys I owe money to I promise I was on my way to you".
Evelyn frowned at Javik and he shrugged his shoulders at her.
"We have no buisness with you Captain Javik but we have reports that you have a fugitive on board your ship, goes by the name Evelyn Ryder" The Rodian stated.
Javik looked at her and scratched his chin giving a signal to trust him and she nodded as she knew this signal quite well.
"Uh yes I have a Evelyn Ryder on my ship uh may I ask what her crime is?" Javik asked politly.
"She is a criminal of The First Order and I have been tasked to bring her in dead or alive allow us take her from your ship and you will be allowed to leave, not many Bounty Hunters allow this so take what I offer" The Rodian stated.
"Bounty Hunter...The First Order must know what I'm doing" Evelyn looked at Javik.
"Uh what do you wish me to do?" Javik asked.
"Get us out of here" Evelyn demanded.
Javik looked to his controls and he had an idea and he turned to Evelyn "Keep them busy".
Evelyn watched him as he went under the foot space and started opening a panel and Evelyn decided to speak to the Rodian.
"This is Evelyn Ryder, for what reason has The First Order have with me". Evelyn questioned trying to by time.
"The one known as Kylo Ren has tasked me and other Bounty Hunters to bring you in dead or alive but I am offering you a chance to live" The Rodian offered.
"The First Order will kill me if I go back" Evelyn stated as sparks from under the footspace starting flying all over the place.
"What ever they want with you is between you and them I am offering to take you in alive and maybe some cooperation cant be delt between you and them, you are out of options..refuse and you die..accept and you live and possibly wont die" The Rodian warned.
More sparks came from under the foot rest "AH CRAP!" Javik exclamined.
"How much are you being paid" Evelyn asked.
The Rodian had enough "Enough talk! Accept my offer or you die here".
Javik finally came back up "Ok systems are rest just need a few second to reboot".
Javik looked at the screen "Uh this is Captian Javik after careful consideration I have decided to accept your offer".
Evelyn frowned "What are you doing!?".
Javik winked at her and soon The Rodian spoke "Very wise Captain Javik we will bring you into our ship".
The screen shut off and Evelyn gripped Javik and pinned him to his chair "What the hell are you doing!?".
Javik placed his hands on top of hers that gripped his shirt "Trust me remember the systems need a few seconds to reboot just go with it".
Evelyn just looked at Javik and sighed and sat back down in her seat "I swear if things go wrong you are dying with me".
"Just relax" Javik pumped a lever three times and the systems slowly warmed up as they watched the huge ship turn to its side and a huge side door opened and they felt the ship being pulled to Bounty Hunter ship.
"When I give the order you hit the big yellow button on your left" Javik stated as he watched them get closer to the Bounty Hunter ship.
Evelyn looked on the console in front of her and soon saw the yellow button "What will this do?".
Javik turned to her and smiled "Make fireworks".
"Systems back online" The computer announced.
Javik raised his hand at Evelyn "Wait".
Evelyn placed her hand over the button and just watched as they got closer.
"Wait" Javik said again.
It was an intense few seconds as Evelyn could now see the Bounty Hunters men in the ships hanger aiming at them.
"Javik.." Evelyn warned.
"NOW!" Javik screamed and he and Evelyn hit their switches at the same time and Javik's ship unleashed loads of rockets right into the Bounty Hunter ship's hanger and the whole thing went up in flames.
"Sorry weapons malfuntion" Javik contacted the Bounty Hunter.
"Just get us out of here!" Evelyn ordered.
Javik chuckled and took back control of his ship and hit the thrusters and moved away from the ship.
"You made a big mistake Captain Javik, you will die along with Evelyn Ryder!" The Bounty Hunter shouted on the screen.
"You have to catch us first" Javik mocked and went full speed avoiding the ship which was now in persuit and soon the on board scanner showed a few signals.
"Looks like he's sending out fighters after us" Javik stated.
Evelyn looked at the scanner and then looked at Javik "Turn back around head straight for that ship".
Javik looked at Evelyn "What are you crazy!?".
"Unless we stop that ship he will just find us again we have to stop him now" Evelyn stated.
"And you say I'm crazy?" Javik really couldnt believe what she was suggesting.
"Just do it!" Evelyn got out of her seat and headed back to the ladder leading to the cannons.
"This is insane!" Javik pulled a hard turn "You better know what your doing" he then hit the thrusters and opened fire at the fighters in front of them and Evelyn finally sat in her seat and manned the cannons.
Javik pulled some evasive moves as he moves closer to the Bounty Hunters ship and both him and Evelyn took down a few fighters on the way.
"What are we looking Evelyn?!" Javik shouted.
"We need to destroy the cannons on that ship otherwise we arnt going anywhere then we need to take out the bridge and bring the whole thing down" Evelyn ordered.
Javik rolled his eyes as he nodded "Sure...seems simple enough". he opened fire on more fighters in his path and soon they came close to the ship and Evelyn spotted the cannons on the ship and opened fire on them as she past them and soon their ship shook as they were being hit.
"Keep them off us Javik!" Evelyn ordered.
"Theres alot of them dammit!" Javik tried to avoid the attacks.
Evelyn continued to destroy the cannons and soon she came to the last cannan and opened fire and just as she destroyed it the cannon let off a shot and hit the side of Javiks ships and it rocked violently and alarms went off.
"We've been hit! we need to get out of here!" Javik shouted.
"Get to the bridge!" Evelyn ordered.
"Damn it!" Javik swinged his ship around and headed for the front of the ship despite the damage his ship now had and then everything around Evelyn went silent and her mind acted strange again but she trusted her instincts and aimed the cannons to her right aiming at the side of the Bounty Hunter ship and she took a few deep breaths and she could hear her own breathing acho around her and soon her mind clicked and she held her breath and opened fire at the split second the bridge came into view and she watched the four torpedos from her cannons headed straight for the bridge and she watched as the sounds around her came back then thats when the torpedos hit the bridge and the whole thing exploded and the entire front of the ship was destroyed and the whole ship started blowling up from the inside.
"Javik get us out of here!" Evelyn ordered.
Javik hit the thrusters and entered lightspeed just as the ship exploded into a million parts.
Evelyn took a deep breath and rubbed her head as a shout of pain went through her mind "What is this...whats happening to me..". Evelyn sighed and left her seat and went back up the ladder and entered the cockpit and heard alarms go off.
"We are leaving lightspeed" Javik stated and he quickly pulled a lever back and they left lightspeed.
"I cant believe you almost killed me Evelyn" Javik was frustrated.
"If we ran those cannons would have taken us out" Evelyn defended.
Javik then turned his chair to her "Yeah well the damage to the ship is our big problem if we go back into light speed we will be scattered all over the galaxy".
"So we repair the ship" Evelyn stated.
"I cant repair something like this" Javik pulled up a hollowgram of his ship and pointed out the problems.
"The hyperdrive is leaking and not only that our deflector shields are about to give out we will be stuck in the water if we continue" Javik explained.
Evelyn sighed and took her seat in the cockpit and pulled up a hologram of the system they were in "Looks like we are in the Nandoo System, this sector is crawling with outlaws and raiders".
Javik threw his hands up "Oh great we are pretty much dead then".
"Relax theres a planet on the edge of this system" She then pulled up infomation on the planet and the cities on it and she pointed at a part of the planet "Theres a city here looks like its the only city that has law and order".
Javik frowned at Evelyn "And thats suppossed to make me feel better".
Evelyn looked above her head and stood up and opened a hatch and reconfigured a few wires "Its our only chance any where else in this system would properly try to kill us".
"What makes you think they wont do the same to us" Javik said as he looked at her ass in those tight black pants she was in and he just loved the shape of it.
"Its the better the better choice either that or we die" Evelyn finally closed the hatch and Javik turned back to the controls as she sat back down.
"Just rerouted all non critial power to help us get there" Evelyn pressed a few buttons on her console.
"Never thought we would have a change of plan" Javik sighed.
"Well we do know, I'm gonna check the rest of the ship" Evelyn stated as she got up and left the cockpit.
Javik sighed "Women these days".
"I heard that" Evelyn replied as she walked down the hall but soon she felt something and she stopped and looked back down the hall and frowned.
Back on Ahch-To Rey was sleeping and she suddenly gasped as she shot up and she quickly looked around and ran out her hut and looked around.
"Evelyn..." Rey looked at her surroundings and soon she soon realised she was still on Ahch-To.
Rey was confused and rubbed her head "Damn it Rey...get yourself together..".
She then saw the sun rise from the ocean and soon felt the warmth of the sun on her skin and she slowly approached the cliff and decided to sit down on the grass and slowly run her hand on it as it tickled her palm and soon she placed her hands in her lap and slowly rubbed her hands over eachother.
"Evelyn, Finn, Leia...I hope I see you all again" Rey looked up at the sun as the warm air finally hit her entire body and she smiled and closed her eyes and decided to meditate again.
Back on Javik's ship Evelyn still looked down the hall then she felt her body go warm and she looked down at her hand as it tingled and she couldnt understand what was going on but she looked back at the hall.
"Rey, Finn, Poe...Leia...I hope I see you all again" Evelyn turned around and headed down the ship to check for more damage to the ship.
"Javik adores Evelyn but only on a friendly level and sure he may take a cheeky look at her every now and then but hey he is Star Wars version of Star Lord so he's not gonna take things seriously every now and then and as for that little moment with Rey and Evelyn that's a little treat and something that may happen again in the future anyway I hope you enjoyed this chapter and are ready for more :)