Author's Warning: (This very long chapter contains violent scenes and may be graphic if read & mentally visualized. Parental consent or supervision is advised if under age 18. Read at your own risk.)

Chapter 34: Prisoners

"Are you with me?" Captain Cassian asks the same, memorable question that he & Jyn shared during the first few days of knowing each other. The he flips on a switch on the ceiling to get the U-Wing's engines initiated. Jyn rubs her thumb on her A180 blaster pistol before holstering it and looking up at Cassian.

"All the way." Jyn says back as she places a gentle hand on Cassian's arm. Cassian adjusts the microphone near his ear and speaks to K-2SO.

"K-2, listen. It's better if we put you on a separate ship. You will be with the squad at point Alpha. Jyn and I will take a separate ship and be with the unit at point Beta. I hope you don't mind it." Cassian informs.

K-2SO's voice replies in the comms. "Yes, Captain. I'll see you down there."

Cassian nods as he has their transport pod ascend several feet off the floor, and he takes off out of the transport shuttle's hangar. The small transport pod is now in space, following all of the other Rebel transport pods from behind as the very last one in the formation. It is only Jyn and Cassian in the transport pod, and Jyn's mind replayed certain memories of a very important part of her past the moment she looks over at Cassian at the flight controls. They were sitting shoulder-to-shoulder, since the pilot seats were side-by-side at the cockpit window. She eyes him from head to toe: Cassian's hands control the flight wheel, his eyes focus directly forward, and his smooth, tall appearance in the chair soothed her.

For some reason, she loved the idea of being with Cassian, alone in a ship in space.

One of the Rebels in the formation spoke through the comms. "We should be there about fifteen minutes, tops. Once we land in the area of operation, divide into your assigned posts."

Acknowledging the Rebel's instructions, Jyn sighs a big breath of relief as she leans her head against Cassian's shoulder & closes her eyes, which catches Cassian's attention as he stares down at the resting Jyn on his shoulder. He smiled at the sight of it, and he strokes her dark brown hair gently. "You alright?" He asks.

Jyn sighs. "Every battle we get in to…always makes me wonder if it'd be the last we fight the Empire."

Cassian feels exactly what Jyn feels. He wanted this conflict with the Galactic Empire to end already as much as she did, as much as everyone in the galaxy did. "It'll be all over soon, Jyn. Just be….patient." He comforts Jyn, though he knew Jyn wasn't a very patient woman. He's seen her temper rise whenever she waited too long for something. Cassian knows what happens when Jyn gets a bad temper: all hell breaks loose. Of course, it made sense because it fit her personality well: a reckless, aggressive, undisciplined woman. Just like her mother, Lyra.

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It was all quiet for the seemingly long fifteen-minute flight when suddenly, the lights inside the transport pod began to flicker. This stirs much confusion in the two Rebels as they swiftly look all around them. Much to Cassian's surprise, the flight control wheel wouldn't respond to his steering. It was as though the ship was being controlled from the outside, by something invisible and strong beyond their power.

"W-What's happening!?" Cassian asks in a puzzled state, jerking the flight wheel left & right repeatedly in an attempt to maneuver the transport pod, but it was no use.

Jyn looks out the windows. She sees nothing outside. "I-I don't know, Cassian!"

However, after a couple of minutes of mere chaos inside their transport pod, they begin to notice that their transport pod is slowly and gradually drifting away from the Rebel formation. The pod seemed to be drifting towards somewhere off to the left, like as if a huge magnet was attracting their pod towards it. Realizing that might be the case, Jyn deducts that they had absolutely no control over their transport pod.

Jyn's and Cassian's heartbeats were getting more rapid by the second from the increasing confusion & the increasing fear in them. Wanting to attempt to call out to his comrades, Cassian grabs the commlink and activates it. "HEY! HEYYYYY! ALPHA SQUAD, CAN YOU HEAR US!? WE'RE BEING DEVIATED AWAY FROM FORMATION! HELP!" Cassian screams out at the top of his lungs.

However….there is no response from them. It is as though they never heard a word.

"Hello!? Are you there!? Answer us!" Cassian keeps trying, becoming frustrated in the process.

Then, Jyn realizes something. She places a hand on Cassian's arm to calm him down. He looks at her with a frown. "Cassian….I think our comms is being jammed." Jyn deducts. As Cassian realizes it, he slams the commlink down at the floor and clenches his fists, with frustration boiling in his veins.

"So where are we being taken to!?" Cassian mutters angrily and sits in his pilot seat, and he watches helplessly as the other ships carrying the Rebel troops for the Endor mission were flying away from them and towards the moon of Endor, while their pod was being dragged away and into space.

After what seemed like ages, the Rogue One members finally catch a glimpse of a round spherical object in the distance. It is dark and round. It appeared to be coming towards them, however, in actuality they were coming towards it. The answer was getting clearer now…

"I-Is that…." Cassian starts off, but Jyn finishes for him.

"….the Death Star II." Jyn finishes in a soft, quiet, blank tone. She stares at the enormous space station. The new model, Jyn thought. As she stares at its unfinished features, she reminisces on the days where she was recruited into the Rebellion to steal the plans for the 'older' model, when in the end it blasted her to ashes. The most noticeable physical feature of the Death Star II that caught Jyn's and Cassian's eyes was the station's super-destructive laser cannon: the same exact cannon used in the Death Star that incinerated them on Scarif.

They both notice that their pod is getting closer to an aircraft landing bay on the Death Star II. It is this moment that they both realize why their transport pod got rendered out of control.

"…They pulled us in with their tractor beam. Damn…." Cassian mutters loudly enough that Jyn heard too, and they both sigh in frustration as the pod eventually enters the landing bay and comes to a stop.

Jyn grabs Cassian's shoulder and looks into his anxious eyes. "We're going to meet resistance." She says as she pulls out her A180 blaster pistol.

"There's not much we can do from here. Jyn…" Cassian mumbles nervously as he pulls out his A280 blaster pistol. Jyn could tell he is afraid, even though he promised her many times during the past two years that he would be brave for them. It was because he didn't want to lose her on the battlefield, and she understood that one hundred percent.

Jyn places a hand on Cassian's cheek as she feels her eyes becoming slightly wet. She tried to hold in tears. She stares up into the dark chocolate pair of eyes. She consoles Cassian as they hear the transport pod's doors being breached by Stormtroopers. "Everything will be okay." Jyn says softly before placing a quick kiss on his lips.

Then, they raise their blasters at the pod's doors.

The doors blast open. Smoke and orange flashes of flames occur. Stormtroopers stand outside of the pod & fire their blasters at the interior of the pod, which destroy the controls in the process. Jyn & Cassian fire back with their hand blasters as much as they can, taking down a few Stormtroopers.

Suddenly, in a quick flash, a Sonic Imploder flash grenade is thrown into the pod, and it detonates a white flash of bright light. This blinds Jyn's and Cassian's eyes, causing them to cover their faces with one arm.

The next thing they knew, they felt they were electrocuted, and they were now down the floor, with their blasters out of their hands. They were disarmed. Apparently, a pair of Stormtroopers shot them with their blasters set to stun mode. Jyn & Cassian felt disoriented and helpless, they felt frozen, they felt numb. Their visions were blurred. They felt like they were going to blackout any minute.

They are on the verge of blacking out when they suddenly see a pair of black boots enter the pod and stand right in front of them.

A white cape is seen behind the black pants that stood in front of them.

Jyn and Cassian hear a familiar voice that they haven't heard in a long year.

"Arrest them, and bring them to the brig cell. I've waited a long time for this…." The man's voice rings out before turning to exit the pod. Jyn sees Stormtrooper shoes now striding towards her, and then she feels metal cuffs being clasped around both of her wrists behind her back.

Jyn tried to fight it, but her body couldn't respond to her mental will. Her mind was screaming in agony, screaming at her to get up and take the stand against the Stormtroopers. But it was helpless. Her body couldn't move no more.

Jyn and Cassian black out.

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"Prisoners"

1106 hours

Rogue One

Sgt. Jyn 'Stardust' Erso

Brig cell, Death Star II

It was blurry all around. The captive couldn't make out a single shape or person in his sight; all he could see was just blurry light. Not only he could barely see clearly, but he could hear sounds also: the sounds of a woman screaming both in pain and anger, not to mention that he was also on his knees, and he could barely move. It distressed him. It worried him. He made an attempt to free himself from the wrist restraints behind his back, but it was no use. He & the unknown woman were completely helpless.

The prisoner heard the sound of a punch on the face, and a groan indicating the reaction of the woman, who turned out to be the other prisoner in the cell with him. He couldn't remember why they were there, or how they got there. All that conquered his mind was confusion. He kept asking himself unlimited, endless questions until he heard a male voice in the room with them that both surprised him and confused him even more.

The voice sounded calm: calm, but sinister. It had a heavy accent. His voice was deep, with anger. He sounded like he was demanding things from both the prisoner and the woman. 'This didn't happen by chance,' the prisoner thought to himself. 'This was set up.'

There was a moment of silence before the prisoner heard the woman shuffling away from the captor. Apparently, she was sitting on the floor in wrist restraints too. She was as helpless as the male prisoner, and he could feel the impatience and pain already through her.

"You're going to make a choice, and you will decide right now!" The captor yelled violently at the female prisoner. However, that voice sounded familiar to the male prisoner.

"….No…..that's not going to happen! Not now, not ever!" The woman yelled back aggressively, fighting her captor verbally. Her rapid breaths could be heard from the male prisoner across the cell.

The man laughed hysterically. "Oh, really? You're just like your mother and father! Rebellious, unfaithful, stubborn, backstabbing low-lives!"

This insult about the female's parents sparked much rage in her blood that she immediately snapped back at the man so loud, at the top of her lungs. She was furious, and she felt as though she could break free from the restraints and beat the life out of the man. "DON'T YOU SAY THAT ABOUT THEM! YOU CAUSED EVERYTHING THAT THEY WENT THROUGH! EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED TO THEM WAS BECAUSE THEY RAN FROM THE EMPIRE! BECAUSE THEY RAN FROM YOU!"

Surprised. That was exactly how the male prisoner felt the moment he heard the woman retaliate with her words through his still-blurry sight. But since things were heating up, and afraid that the captor was going to do something painful back to them, the male prisoner thought of injecting his own voice into the fray.

"Well, they're both dead now, orphan girl!" The captor laughed again, insulting and taunting the woman. He rubbed her chin, to which she pulled away defensively from the anger that built up in her.

"YOU BASTARD!" The female screamed with fury.

"H-Hey…w-what's going on here!?" The male captive finally spoke, much to the unknown man's surprise.

The mysterious captive chuckled and slowly approached the male prisoner. He could see him coming closer through his blurry vision, and his heart skipped beats rapidly with each step the man took towards him. "Well, well, well, look who decided to join us. Such a sleepy one, I presume. But he's good. He could make such a lovely Death Trooper to my collection!" The man taunted, further angering the woman.

"NO! He will not!" The female defended.

The male prisoner suddenly realized something. That woman's voice….it was very, VERY familiar.

And his vision was slowly and gradually becoming clearer by the minute. He could see the captor. He was a tall, old man with gray hair. And he was wearing a white uniform with a white cape…

He also sees that the woman was wearing a gray jacket with a brown vest over it, and black pants. Her brunette hair was tied in a bun on the back of her head and fringes that hung on each side of her face. She looked very, VERY familiar to him.

"Then declare to me that you will join us! Join the Galactic Empire, and destroy those Rebel scums that you call friends!" The man demanded out of the woman.

The woman was struck. Now, her anger reached a full level.

"NEVVVVVERRRRRRRRR!" She angrily forced the rejection from her lungs through barred teeth and shook her head, with a furious-looking face. She briefly licked the small spot of blood on her bottom lips, which resulted from the physical abuse inflicted by the man in white.

The man in white chuckled upon hearing that.

The woman, with her blood mixed with her saliva in her mouth, spat her blood on the man's white uniform. This caused him to jerk back, and surged angry feelings through his veins.

"Alright then, Jyn Erso. Let's see if your partner in crime joining us will make you join, since you're as defiant as your mother was." The white-uniformed Imperial declares. He turns to the male prisoner, and he dashes towards him in a flash. The male prisoner widens his eyes in surprise and confusion.

Jyn's anger levels instantly drops, and she widens her eyes in concern as she watched. "What? Wait! What are you doing to him!? Orson! Orson Krennic!" Jyn attempted to catch his attention, but it was no use. He already grabbed ahold of the male prisoner.

Orson Krennic violently and aggressively stood the male prisoner up on his feet, then gave him one punch to the abdomen. He groaned in pain, and Jyn screamed in response and sympathy.

"Guards!" Orson yelled towards the cell door, and two of his Deathtrooper bodyguards entered the cell and took the male captive by the arms. The male prisoner was powerless: he couldn't move nor fight back. Krennic most likely drugged him with a powerful sedative that inhibited his senses. All he could do was observe, hear, and think.

'N-No…I will not…join….them.' The prisoner said to himself in his own mind. His eyes began to close slowly, for he was about to drift into a deep sleep again. 'J-Jyn…' He called out to himself silently.

Jyn's voice rang out loudly through the air.

"NO! CASSSSSIIIIIAAAAAANNNNNNN!" Jyn yells at the top of her lungs, with tears streaming down her face more than ever. Her hyperventilating breaths try to prevent her from speaking and pleading with Orson Krennic.

As Cassian is brought out into the brig's hallway by the pair of Death Troopers, Jyn is brought out next by another pair of Death Troopers. She grunts angrily as she tries to shake herself out of their grasps, but they are too strong. Jyn's reckless and aggressive strength wouldn't help much at all in this situation of being surrounded & captured by a high abundance of Imperial elites. Her anger dies down when suddenly, she notices that Cassian was groaning in pain loudly, and this causes her to have a concerned look & a concerned feeling for him. Cassian's face looked pained, and it worried Jyn. "C-Cassian!? What's wrong!?" Jyn tries to ask Cassian, but he is now laying on his side on the floor, still groaning in pain. Jyn then shifts her gaze up to look up at the cold blue pair of eyes of Orson Krennic, who had a dirty smirk on his face. "What did you do to him, you bastard?!" Jyn yells angrily with angry wide eyes.

"Heheheh. You'll see." Orson chuckles evilly as he crosses his hands in front of his waist.

Jyn suddenly hears a loud, sinister breathing sound nearby. The sounds were coming from a filtered mask. Turning around to look behind her, she notices the tall, sinister Darth Vader appear before them. He approaches Jyn with a cold, dark, evil vibe before stopping in front of her, and he stares down at the scared young woman who helped destroy the first Death Star. Jyn stares up at Vader in fear.

Jyn wished she had her lightsaber to fight Vader, but all of her weapons, and Cassian's weapons, were confiscated.

And besides, she was injured & weakened. Both she and Cassian were. They had bruises all over their bodies, cuts covered some parts of their body, and blood bled from every cut inflicted by the Stormtroopers who tortured them. Even Orson Krennic himself was torturing her and Cassian. Krennic: the old man who was once close friends with her family. It disgusted Jyn to think about her father's former friend physically beating up his daughter. Even though Jyn is a tough, reckless, aggressive, undisciplined Rebel woman, Jyn still had her limits. She's a young woman. She believed this extent of torture and physical abuse should have no place anywhere, for anyone. And she certainly did not appreciate it from Orson, particularly.

"You…..Jyn Erso. You're afraid. Afraid about Captain Andor." Vader says in a sinister low tone. Jyn shakes her head slowly, lying about it and denying his claim. "You should be." Vader finishes as he makes his way towards Cassian, who still lie on the floor groaning in pain.

The reason he was groaning in pain: his heart was aching. It was aching because he finally believed that his nightmare from a couple of years earlier finally became true: he and Jyn were captured, being tortured, and were being encountered by Darth Vader, and they were going to attempt to turn Cassian to the dark side of the Force just to manipulate Jyn into joining the Empire.

"N-No…." Cassian mutters as he tries to crawl away, which Orson stops him by kicking him in the chest. Jyn watches in horror as Vader proceeds to use his Force Choke on Cassian, causing Cassian to grab ahold of his throat and gasp for air vigorously. Jyn watches in horror as she tries to struggle from the troopers' strong grasps.

"NO! WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO HIM!? STOP IT!" Jyn yells loudly at the top of her lung as tears bursts from her eyes.

Vader leans in towards Cassian. "I dare you, Captain, to join the dark side, and fulfil your destiny with Jyn Erso as my companions. Your futures lie here, in my Galactic Empire." The dark lord says to Cassian in a dark, sinister tone in between masked breaths. Jyn's eyes widen in reaction, and she shakes her head repeatedly.

"NO! NO, WE WILL NOT JOIN YOU! THE EMPIRE BE DAMNED!" Jyn screams out in agony. She could feel the emotional pain overtaking her. Her heart ached its most painful ache Jyn has ever experienced. She didn't want to join the Empire. She didn't want to make her father's mistakes. And most of all: she didn't want her lover, Cassian, to be tempted to the dark side either. She would die if he did.

After choking Cassian for a very long minute and not getting any response from Cassian, Darth Vader releases the Force Choke, causing Cassian to fall to the floor and rub his throat in an attempt to soothe it from the supernatural offensive ability. Vader then turns his attention to Jyn, who looks up at Vader in horror through tears. "I could feel your soul, Jyn Erso. You're breaking down. Good. Good girl." Vader taunts Jyn.

Jyn shakes her head angrily and decides to spit at Vader's boot as an insult.

Feeling rage flare up inside him, Orson Krennic immediately proceeds to stomp towards Jyn swiftly, making the surrounding Death Troopers move aside so he can grab Jyn. As he approaches Jyn, he grabs her by her tied bun on the back of her head, and he throws her into a nearby metal wall hard, where a loud thud sounds out from the impact Jyn made with the wall. Jyn feels her head in pain from the impact, and she is about to fall to the floor when Krennic is quick enough to grab her and pin her against the wall with one hand grabbing the collar of her gray jacket.

Orson delivers a strong punch across Jyn's face. Jyn groans in pain. But she feels more tears releasing from her eyes. She hasn't felt this kind of physical pain this strong. The punch from Orson's fist struck her like a lightning bolt.

"DON'T YOU DARE DO THAT TO THE DARK LORD, ERSO GIRL!" Orson yells down at Jyn, whose head hung down so that she was sobbing at the floor loudly. Her cries echoed through the cold, dark hallway of the Death Star II's brig. Orson then delivers a strong smack across Jyn's face, causing her more pain. Then, Orson proceeds to grab Jyn by her brown hair & throw her down at the cold hard floor, where she lands, with her hands still cuffed behind her back.

Jyn Erso was being abused by her archenemy. Her parents' former friend.

Jyn sobs more, but her sobs gradually slow when she suddenly hears another pair of footsteps approaching ahead. As Jyn looks up through her teary eyes, her bloody & sweaty face, and her hyperventilating breaths, she sees a black-cloaked figure appear before her. The cloaked man had pale, wrinkly skin and a wrinkled face, further giving him a more eerie, evil vibe than Darth Vader, and this makes Jyn stare up at the cloaked man in great horror. She knew who it was.

"E-Emperor….P-Palpatine." Jyn mutters quietly under her breath, feeling her heart pound harder more than ever due to the increasing fear in her.

The Emperor gives a very ugly, dirty smirk at the pained female Rebel down on the floor in front of him. He also notes Cassian next to her, still lying on the cold floor.

"Ah…..yes. Rogue…..One. The ones who crippled my Death Star into destruction." The Emperor speaks in a low, sinister tone that sent chills down Jyn's spine. "Your father wouldn't have liked that, since he was the one who created it."

Jyn instantly shakes her head. "It was his! And he wanted it destroyed!"

The Emperor smiles. "Good! We could use people like you…..and the man you love, in our Empire. Yes…..I can feel it in you, Jyn Erso. You don't want to join us. I know your fear…." The Emperor taunts her as he turns his attention to Cassian. Jyn then shifts her gaze at Cassian as well, for she is confused as to what was going to happen.

"You'll want to change your mind…..when your Captain will!" The Emperor says. Then, he raises his hands, with all of his fingers pointing at Cassian. In the blink of an eye, a blue glow lights the entire hallway, and Cassian is electrocuted by the lightning emitting from Palpatine's fingers.

Cassian screams out in pain as he writhes on the floor. Every limb twitches. He tries to wiggle his arms free, but his hands were cuffed behind his back too. "GGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Cassian screams painfully.

Unbeknownst to him, Jyn was crying.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOO! STOP IT! DON'T KILL HIM! KILL ME! KILL ME!" Jyn screams at the top of her lungs with a river of tears bursting from her eyes & streaming down her face: the tear droplets fall to the floor like rain. Jyn couldn't bear to watch her lover be electrocuted & tortured by the Sith Lord running the Galactic Empire.

Suddenly, the Emperor stops his lightning attacks on Cassian, and Jyn sighs a huge breath of relief as her heart begins to loosen from the intensity of the situation. All that fills the room were Jyn's sobs of fright & sympathy for her tortured Captain. The Emperor takes a step closer towards Jyn.

"That….would be too easy, my dear." The Emperor says as a response to Jyn's plea before laughing a sinister laugh. Then he continues to taunt Jyn with his eerie voice. "If neither of you will abandon your rebel friends and turn to the dark side…then perhaps we will make your stay with us…..unpleasant." The Emperor finishes as he stands back and makes a signal to Orson Krennic, who nods.

"N-No!" Jyn yells in horror as she helplessly watches her archenemy approach her. Krennic proceeds towards Jyn, and he grabs her by her gray jacket and throws her against the metal wall again. Then, Krennic delivers several punches to Jyn's abdomen, making her grunt in pain with each devastating blow. The old man was furious. He felt the rage boiling in his blood, and he could taste every bit of it. Krennic proceeds to grab Jyn by her hair and angle her face up at him so that they were face-to-face.

Jyn had cuts & bruises on her face, with blood coming from the cuts. But Orson, of course, didn't care. He wanted to make her suffer.

"This is what you get for interfering with MY plans! You bitch!" Orson yells at the helpless young female before delivering another blow to her abdomen with his knee, and he throws her down to the floor once again.

After Jyn hits the floor, she notices that Orson's Death Troopers surrounded Cassian, and they were attacking Cassian…..abusing him, with their batons and the butt of their heavy blaster rifles. Cassian started to bleed from the bruises and numerous cuts all over his face and his torso. His groans of pain hurt Jyn, and each time a groan from Cassian entered her ears, her heart ached more, because it terrified her just hearing him suffer from the physical abuse of the cruel troopers. And she knew Cassian would feel & react the same way with her.

"CASSIAN!" Jyn yells helplessly as she watches the Death Troopers do their damage on her lover.

Once again, Krennic grabs Jyn by her hair and shoves her through a group of metal supply crates down the hallway, causing a loud mess, and a hurting Jyn. She cries out in pain as she feels more bruises forming in her lower limbs, and all she could do was lie helplessly on the floor since her cuffed hands limited her actions. She couldn't run away. It's no use. She became overwhelmed. Krennic then slaps her in the face hard again, with some of her blood transferring to his hand. After chuckling evilly, Krennic pushes Jyn down to the floor, where she & Cassian were now surrounded by Orson's Death Troopers and several Stormtroopers, with Vader & the Emperor watching the torture taking place.

With Jyn down on the floor looking up at him with a pained look and an injured-looking face, Orson Krennic kneels down in front of her and grabs her by the throat. Their eyes lock gazes with each other, and they both give each other cold stares. "You're a scum, just like all your Rebel friends out there. You're a pathetic little girl! Pathetic, just like your mother and father were when they were still alive!"

Feeling the anger rise as an effect of his insult about her parents, Jyn grunts angrily and spits on Orson's face. After doing that, she yells at him. "SHUT UP, YOU BASTARD!"

Orson laughs as he wipes Jyn's saliva off his face. "You look hungry, Erso girl. Have a bite to eat, will you?" He asks. As he asked this, Jyn shoots him a look of confusion with furrowed brows. It is then she notices a Stormtrooper arrive from outside the brig area with a tray of food from the Death Star II's mess hall. The Stormtrooper harshly slides the tray across the floor so that it hits Jyn's knees since she was sat down on the floor. Jyn looks at the tray of food, then back up at Orson, wondering what he was trying to make her do.

"Let's make this a bit more interesting, shall we?" Krennic says as he signals two of his Death Troopers towards Jyn. Jyn becomes extremely confused when the Death Troopers approach her, and, in the blink of an eye, they pull & strip off her clothes. They pull off every bit of fabric covering her slim, injured, bruised body, until her clothes & brown pair of boots were laid out all around her, and her bare, naked, bruised body exposed to all the Imperials around her watching.

Jyn becomes extremely confused, scared, and nervous. She is knelt down on the cold hard floor, naked and handcuffed right in front of her enemies, and forced to eat food with her mouth only, like an animal. She felt the most embarrassed in her life. She wanted to cry more tears from the anxiety and fear conquering her.

"Eat it." Krennic demands with a serious tone and a serious face.

Still, no answer from Jyn, as she just stares up at him with a half angered & half confused face.

Losing his patience and feeling his blood boil, Orson pulls out his DT-29 revolver pistol blaster and points it at Jyn's head, with a couple of his Death Troopers doing the same by pointing their heavy blaster rifles down at Jyn. "EAT!" Krennic yells loudly in great fury.

As a result, Jyn cries tears again.

And Cassian notices this. He sits up on the floor and frowns in confusion as he watches his naked young Sergeant kneeling in front of him, handcuffed, with a tray of food in front of her. "Jyn!? Hey, stop this, NOW! What the hell are you doing to her?!" The rebellious Captain angrily exclaims. However, one of the Death Troopers behind him strikes the back of his head with the butt of his heavy blaster, causing Cassian to sustain damage to his head and groan loudly in pain.

Krennic points his DT-29 revolver at Cassian. "SHUT UP, ANDOR!" Krennic yells. Then he turns his pistol back on the naked Jyn. "EAT! DO IT, NOW, DAMN GIRL!"

For her & Cassian's sakes, Jyn proceeds to bend down and munch on the food present on the tray while tears stream down her wet, bleeding face. Some of her blood smears on the food in the process since blood was coming from her nostrils. Jyn felt the most embarrassed she's ever been. She wished she got out of that hell hole. She wanted to kill the cruel people around her at that moment. She is a human female. She is a woman, not a dog. She found it very offensive to be treated that way, to be forced to behave like that by someone. Jyn knows she is a reckless, aggressive, undisciplined woman with a rough past and a criminal record, but she knows that didn't mean she could be treated this way. It made her extremely uncomfortable. Jyn got even more uncomfortable when Orson, the Emperor, and all the surrounding Imperial troopers start laughing at her.

"Hahahahahahahaha!" Emperor Palpatine laughs in much amusement with the other Stormtroopers and Death Troopers.

"Awwww! Look at that! Daddy's little girl just became our new house pet! We should give her the special treat of more misery after her meal!" Orson makes fun of Jyn as he laughs along with them evilly.

Cassian shakes his head as he helplessly watches Jyn eat the tray of food while stripped of all her clothes. The sight of it made him cringe. He never, ever wanted to see such an act like this ever again. This angered him greatly. Cassian did not appreciate his girlfriend being treated this way. "C-Curse…you." Cassian mutters silently under his breath soft enough that none of the Imperials heard him.

As Jyn finished with the food, she straightens back up as more tears flow down her red cheeks. She felt deeply humiliated, she felt extremely miserable, yet so angry. As the Imperial troopers around her stop laughing, Jyn shifts her cold, angered, sad forest-green eyes up at Orson Krennic. The sight of his face made her want to kill him now for what he just made her do.

Krennic holsters his DT-29 revolver blaster and raises his wrist to look at his watch. Then, he scoffs. "Looks like it's time for your nap, little girl." He taunts Jyn with the last 2 words, calling her little since her young adult self still reminded him of the little 4-year-old Jyn back in his younger days when he was friends with her parents, Galen & Lyra.

"…..Piss off!" Jyn yells at Krennic before spitting at his boot.

In response, Orson angrily slaps Jyn in the face once more before grabbing her by the hair and pulling her with him back to the brig cell. The Death Troopers take Cassian by the arms and lead him to the brig cell also, with Cassian trying to struggle free from their strong grasps but to no avail. Both Jyn & Cassian are thrown into their jail cell together, where they hit the floor.

Orson enters the cell with a Stormtrooper, and he delivers one hard, final kick to Jyn's chest while the Stormtrooper slams his blaster hard against Cassian's head, both inflicting more pain to the imprisoned Rebels. Cassian closes his eyes as the pain throbs sharply through his head, and Jyn breathes harder due to the strong blow to her chest. Krennic and the Stormtrooper then exit the cell, with Krennic turning to face them while standing by the cell door.

"I hope you enjoyed your…..introduction! Haahahhahahaha!" Orson taunts Jyn and Cassian with a dirty smirk. "We'll let you recover for the rest of the day, because we'll have an important, private meeting very soon! Enjoy your stay, rebel scums."

As Jyn and Cassian watch Orson walk way & disappear from view, a Stormtrooper throws in Jyn's clothes, which land on her naked body, before he closes the cell doors, leaving the two injured, helpless Rebels in the dark cell together. Only a single light from the ceiling lit the middle of the cell. But, Jyn still feels angered and offended by what she underwent just now. Her anger took over.

"DAAAAMMMMMMNNNNNN YOU, ORSON! YOU SON OF A BITCH! HOW DARE YOU DO THIS TO US! I'LL KILL YOU, YOU FUCKING BASTARD!" Jyn yells angrily at the top of her lungs, before breaking down into a tearful sob. Her head hangs down as she cries & releases every sad, shocking emotion from her chest. She felt very hurt, both emotionally and physically. She felt herself getting cold, since the Imperial station had cold air temperatures and she is completely naked, with bleeding cuts and dark bruises from the brutal torture she endured.

Cassian looks at Jyn, and he felt like crying too. Through the Force, he felt exactly how hurt Jyn felt. It angered him so much, yet it also saddened him. He's never heard of any Rebel, male or female, undergo as brutal of a torture than this. This was his first time being captured & tortured by Imperials, and he was badly hurt too. But, Cassian concludes that Jyn is the one who is hurt the most than him. He sympathized for her. He didn't care if there were bruises & cuts on her naked body. He loved her so much. She is his woman, and she is all that mattered to him.

"Jyn…." Cassian mutters out loud. He wanted to say more, but he couldn't. He was too weak and too emotionally shocked. Cassian scoots closer by Jyn's side and brings his shoulder closer to her, which causes Jyn to rest her head on his shoulder as she continues to cry her endless, beautiful tears of hurt.

The two prisoners sat there on the floor of the brig cell, helpless and tortured, and away from their mission.