"We are back with another Chapter with Evelyn and this time something happens to her and Jaylah decides to make a decision!
Chapter 37: Rebellion
Evelyn gasped as she finally woken up from the severe torture she went through at the hands of Bala and she could feel her muscles burn as she tried to sit up.
"Evelyn you alright?" Javik got up from his hard bed and went to the barrier of his cell door and saw Evelyn finally sitting up on her bed holding her head.
"I feel like death.." Evelyn sighed as she rubbed her head.
"You were lucky, two medical officers came in and checked on you and I heard them say if you were tortured for another minute or two your heart would of stopped" Javik explained.
"Guess I have Jaylah to thank for that" Evelyn sighed and she planeted her feet on the floor of her cell and she looked at Javik in his cell "Why did she stop it...she could have just asked Bala".
Javik leaned on the wall of his cell and crossed his arms "I dont know but either way we are dead in the water".
Jaylah walked down the hall and into the living quarters of Evelyn and Javik's ship and she saw some of her crew playing cards at the nearby table.
"Men, status" Jaylah asked the crew.
One of her crew looked up from his cards "We are keeping away from those First Order bastards we cant stand them".
Jaylah nodded "Dont worry we will be away from them soon". she then walked out of the living area and went into another room where Bala and a few Storm Troopers were setting up a holographic device and soon it came online.
"Bala we need to talk" Jaylah demanded and Bala looked at her and put his hand up and she stopped in her tracks.
"Not now I must speak with Kylo Ren" Bala stated.
"Its ready sir" One of the Storm Troopers stated and the rest of the troopers moved away while Bala turned to the device and soon a hologram of Kylo Ren in his mask appeared.
"Talk" Kylo Ren said in a dark tone.
Bala took a deep breath at Kylo Ren's tone of voice "We have not been able to get anything out of Evelyn just yet but I believe she is at breaking point".
"Why did you stop, why arnt you still at it?" Kylo Ren simply stated.
Bala was about to speak but Jaylah marched right next to Bala and Kylo Ren turned his head to her.
"She was almost killed, I stopped the torture to allow her to recover to resume the torture Bala wasnt keeping an eye on her condiction he was careless". Jaylah explained.
Bala turned to Jaylah "With all do respect-"
"Bala shut up!" Kylo Ren snapped his head to Bala and then turned back to Jaylah as she continued.
"During one part of the interrigation Bala was looking at her partner the entire time hoping to get infomation from him while torturing Evelyn not once looking back at her condiction and most importantly she is no good to me dead" Jaylah looked right at Kylo Ren.
"Bounty Hunter even if you caught her she is still the buisness of The First Order and if I find out you interferred with our buisness again I will see to it that you will die a slow death" Kylo Ren warned and he turned to Bala.
"As for you dont ever get reckless again if she wont speak then just bring her back here" Kylo Ren ordered.
Bala nodded "Yes Kylo".
Kylo Ren's hologram vanished and Jaylah turned to leave and Bala sighed in frustration as he turned to watch her leave and thats when he noticed Han Solo's blaster on her hip.
"Jaylah stop right there" Bala ordered.
Jaylah sighed and looked at Bala as he took a few steps forward and pointed at her hip "That weapon on your hip where did you get it?".
Jaylah frowned as she looked down at Han's Solo's weapon on her hip and she remembered what Evelyn said so she played along and crossed her arms "Whats it to you human".
"That weapon is the property of Kylo Ren it belonged to his greatest enemy, Han Solo so hand it over" Bala opened his hand demanding the weapon.
"Greatest enemy? tell me human who is Kylo Ren why did he hate Han Solo?" Jaylah stood her ground.
Bala frowned at Jaylah "Han Solo was a thorn in his side all his life and he depised the man I hear things Jaylah but I have been tasked to give him that weapon so hand it over".
Jaylah then saw the Troopers around Bala raise their blasters at her and she was outnumbered but she wasnt afriad and she looked right at Bala. "Kylo Ren, did he kill Han Solo?".
Bala took a step forward with his hand still out "Hand it over and I will tell you".
Jaylah looked down at the blaster on her hip and after a deep breath she took Han Solo's off her hip and handed it to Bala and he examined it. "Not bad no wonder Han Solo kept using it".
Jaylah crossed her arms as her blood boiled "So tell me Bala, what happened to Han Solo and who is Kylo Ren".
Bala chuckled and placed the blaster on his hip and then looked right back at Jaylah "Kylo Ren is the son of Han Solo".
Jaylah was suprised and she lowered her arms as Bala explained further "You see Han Solo has done everything he can to bring his son back but Kylo Ren has committed to a bigger cause and the galaxy is better for it".
Jaylah frowned "What cause is that?".
Bala smiled "Order and control sure many may complain but me personally have no problem, the amount of times The First Order has contacted me to do dirty work has made my life more better then anything else this galaxy has given me".
"So what about Kylo Ren?, did he kill Han Solo?" Jaylah asked.
Bala smirked at the alien in front of him "Yes, he killed the bastard with his own hands."
Jaylah looked to her side taking it all in and then she looked back at Bala and gave a small nod "I see, well I better get paid for this Bala you better not cross me".
Bala took Han Solo's blaster off his hip and examined it "Dont worry Jaylah I may be a criminal but I am a man of my word".
Jaylah then turned around and left the area and headed back into the halls of the ship and soon came to a room and quickly entered.
Jaylah fell to her knees with her hands on the ground and she was trying to control her breathing with the shock of what she now knew, Evelyn was right...the ones that gave her the contract was the very ones who killed the man she knew long ago and she shedded a few tears over this revelation.
Moments had past and Evelyn and Javik heard the door out of the cells open and they Bala entered the cells again with a few of his troopers and they stood gaurd as Bala walked up to Evelyn in her cell and he was suprised to see her on her feet.
"How are you up? that level of voltage would been enough to keep a man down for hours" Bala frowned.
Evelyn just looked at her foe "I am not a man idiot".
Bala huffed "Doesn't matter" he then hit the switch shutting off the barrier and he then took out Han Solo's blaster and aimed at Evelyn.
"Your getting back in that device so we can continue the interrogation" Bala ordered.
"Go to hell" Evelyn simply stated.
"Suit yourself" Bala turned and signalled his troops and they went to Javik's cell and ordered him out and Javik raised his hands and walked out of his cell and he looked to Evelyn and Bala and all of a sudden he was hit in the back of the head and he fell to the floor grunting in pain.
"Leave him!" Evelyn took a step forward but Bala aimed right at her stopping her in her tracks.
"Get in the device or he dies" Bala warned and Evelyn looked at Javik and she then looked back at Bala.
"Your death will be slow" Evelyn promised him.
"Yeah old age will take care of that now move!" Bala ordered and Evelyn slowly made her way out of the cell and walked to the device she was not long tortured in.
Javik looked up at Evelyn "Dont worry about me ju-" he was cut off by a hit in the back of the head and Evelyn continued to walk to the device.
"Stop and turn around" Bala ordered as he followed her and soon she stopped and turned around with rage in her eyes.
Two Troopers came up to Evelyn and removed her coat and then gripped her arms and yanked her to the device and strapped her arms and legs in and she didnt fight back as she just looked right into Bala's eyes.
"I swear I will kill you.." Evelyn's tone was dark as the restraints tightened around her wrists and ankles.
"I'm sure you will Evelyn but right now you should be worried about whats coming up" Bala smiled.
Evelyn wasnt even intimidated anymore as rage took over her "Just get on with it and you better pray you kill me this time...".
Javik slowly looked up from the ground at Evelyn and he saw her looking directly at Bala with the eyes of a killer. "Evie why? why did you let them do this".
Evelyn looked down at Javik "I am not losing you Javik, I've lost too many friends".
Javik just looked at her and then to the floor he was laying on as the troops above him had their blasters on him.
Bala pulled out the switch for the device in his pocket and presented it in front of Evelyn and she just looked at him.
"Round two" Bala smiled and hit the switch and Evelyn's screamed echoed the entire cell area as electricity surged through her entire body.
Jaylah marched through the halls of the Tempest and came back to the living quarters where some of her crew were and she marched up to the table and planted her hands on the table and her crew looked up at her.
"We are taking over this ship" Jaylah stated.
"Whoa Boss what just happened?" One of her crew asked.
"How many of you know Han Solo?" Jaylah looked at her crew and some three of them raised their hands.
"Yeah, helped me on a job few years back" One stated.
"He saved my life back on Tattoine" An older crew member said.
"He taught me how to defend myself on my first job" another responded.
Jaylah took a deep breath as she looked down at her hands on the table and then looked at her crew "I just found out The First Order were the ones who killed him".
"What!" The three crew members said in unison and they looked around at the others.
One crew member looked at the shocked members and then looked up at Jaylah "Wait if we take over this ship then we wont get the bounty".
Jaylah stood up straight and walked to the middle of the room and looked back at her crew "Not necessarily, there is another way".
One crew member stood up "Boss this is crazy lets just get this bounty and live in luxery".
"How long will that last, Bala used to be a gang leader just like me but that Kylo Ren has forced him into the service of The First Order" Jaylah explained and she saw her crew look at each other.
"The First Order is after The Resistance, once thats gone they will just go for the next target and then the next...whos to say one day they will come after us or make us join them" Jaylah crossed her arms and her crew were thinking over everything she just said.
One crew member looked to her "What should we do?".
Jaylah took a deep breath trying to find the words and soon she found them "We have worked together like a well oiled machine we have been through so much, we are family of mercenaries and this is what we do but if The First Order decides to come for us one day...everything we built everything fought and died for will all be destroyed by them".
"So what will it be? should we protect what we have all built or should we just wait for The First Order to take all that away" Jaylah asked her family and soon they all stood up from their seats ready to defend what they have built.
In the cells Evelyn screamed as her body burnt from electrocution and Bala let go of the switch and Evelyn went limp in the device trying to catch her breath.
"WHY NOT JUST GIVE UP!" Bala was frustrated that he was getting nothing out of her and he marched up to Evelyn and got close to her ear.
"You have nothing to defend Evelyn, The Resistance is dying they have lost alot more ships since you left and the main ship of The Resistance is close to being destroyed" Bala mocked.
Evelyn turned her head and spat him in the eye and he stumbled back rubbing the spit out of his eye and his rage built and marched up to Evelyn and punched her right in the jaw and blood splattered out of her mouth and after a few moments from the hit Evelyn just looked right at Bala.
"You are either brave or stupid" Bala hit the switch and Evelyn was electricuted again and she screamed as her whole body pinned itself against the device and all of a sudden everything went black and Evelyn saw she was in complete darkness and she realised she wasnt in the device anymore.
Evelyn looked down at her hands "Am I dead?". She then saw a small light in the distance which blinded her and she raised her arm and to shield her eyes and she saw it moving slowly and she could hear a familier voice.
"The island, life, death and decay that feeds new life, warmth, cold, peace..Love..violence.. balance and energy..a force".
Evelyn's eyes widened as she lowered her arm "Rey? is that you" she watched the light go other her head and into the distance before vanishing.
Another light appeared on her right and a similer voice echoed "Stay strong Little Wing...stay strong for your Parents...for me, Han, Finn...and Rey".
"Leia.." Evelyn watched the light shoot off into the distance and vanished and then other light appeared and this voice was one she only heard a man's voice once but didnt know who it was.
"You must find me Evelyn, Luke Skywalker will not be enough to win this war" The voice echoed.
Evelyn took a few steps forward to the light "Who are you what are you talking about?".
"The Jedi may not be enough to win this war, The Resistance is dying as we speak" The man's voiced echoed and soon Evelyn saw millions of stars appear and as she turned around her eyes widened as she saw The Resistance losing ships one by one and the main ship was being bombarded with shots.
"Is this..." Evelyn took a few steps to the scene before her.
"This is happening right now Evelyn unless you find me everything you have come to love will be lost, come to Coruscant and you will find what will help turn the tide" The man stated.
Evelyn then heard hundreds of voices in her head and she could hear pain and misary and people begging for help and it was almost painful to hear as she brought her hands to her head "Ben what did you do to me" she shed a tear.
"Find Coruscant" The man's voice echoed.
Evelyn turned back to the light "What is it on Coruscant? tell me please!" she cried out.
"Free yourself Evelyn, fight and find me before all is lost" The light slowly started to vanish ans Evelyn chased after it "Tell me! what will I find!" then everything went white.
Evelyn's eyes shot open as she was back in the device looking up at the ceiling as the electricity surged through her body only this time she felt no pain as all she could hear was the screams of hundreds of voices in her head and it seemed to awaken something within her and she slowly lowered her head and her eyes pierced the eyes of Bala as he looked at her in shock and even the troops and Javik was witnessing it.
"What the hell.." Bala took a few steps back before running out the room and Evelyn gritted her teeth and then let out a scream of rage and she pulled hard against her restrains and the entire device started to dent as she screamed and all of a sudden a shockwave came from Evelyn and it sent everyone including Javik flying into nearby walls knocking them out and the device Evelyn was in blew apart finally freeing her but Evelyn's body collapsed to the floor and she fell unconscious.
Jaylah and her crew heard the chaos and they readied their weapons.
"Lets do this!" Jaylah shouted and they went off in different areas of the ship and the entire ship had become all out war.
Bala ran through the halls of the ship with blaster in hand and gunned down any of Jaylah's mercenaries determined to make it to the bridge of the ship and his fellow Storm Troopers were putting up a hell of a fight taking down Jaylah's mercenaries.
Jaylah was running and blasting at any Troopers in her way as she made her way to the cell blocks and then as she turned a corner a shot hit Jaylah's blaster knocking it right out of her hand and thats when she saw two Storm Troopers with special armour and had electrical rods attached to their arms.
"Traitor!" One of them shouted as their rods activated.
Jaylah frowned and pressed a few buttons on her forarm and she took a defensive stance and tow orange like blades appeared around both her forarms and the Trooper recognised it.
"Shit its an Omni Blade!" One of the Storm Troopers stated.
The Storm Troopers charged at Jaylah and one swinged at her but she ducked stabbed the first trooper in the stomach and he fell to the ground and the other swinged down and Jaylah blocked it but the Trooper punched Jaylah in the face and kicked her away.
Jaylah stumbled back and spat out blood and then looked at the last trooper and she saw him pick up his dead soldier's stun rod and attached it to his other arm and he took a defensive stance.
The Storm Trooper decided to charge at her and the omni blades and stun rods clashed at each other as Jaylah and the Tropper went back and forth and soon the Tropper saw an opening and smacked one of his stun rods right into Jaylah's stomach and she stumbled and the trooper went to attack again but Jaylah blocked the rods with both her blades and they struggled against each other fighting to get the upper hand.
"You are a disgrace to The First Order!" The Trooper stated.
"I'm a Mercenary!" Jaylah argued and then pushed the Trooper with all her might and she pinned him to the wall and then delivered a headbutt to the Trooper and ended up cracking the Trooper's helmet and as the Trooper was stunned by the attack Jaylah then pulled her blades back and wedged them right into the Troopers stomach and she just looked at him as he gasped for air and he slowly fell and she then pulled the blades out and sliced the Trooper's head clean off and his entire body fell to the ground and his blood pooled around him.
Javik finally woke up in the cells and he looked around and saw Storm Troopers all knocked out and he looked to the middle of the room and saw Evelyn on the ground not moving so he used all his strength to get back to his feet but he was still dazed from the impact and he fell to the ground again but crawled her.
"Evelyn.." Javik finally managed to reach her and he placed his hands on her cheeks but she didnt respond.
"Evie..." Javik just looked at her face looking for any movement and soon he heard her mumble and he sighed in relief that she was still alive and all of a sudden the entrance of the cells opened and Javik looked and saw Jaylah march in and pick up a Trooper's rifle and she shot all the knocked out Troopers on the ground.
Javik quickly got up despite still being dazed and walked to Jaylah "What the hells going on?".
Jaylah killed the last Trooper on the ground and she turned and aimed the blaster right at Javik and he raised his hands.
"Whoa easy Jaylah, we are not your enemy...take it easy" Javik said in a soft tone.
"I know" She then threw the blaster into Javiks hands and then picked up another one and looked back at Javik. "Help me take out these First Order scum and I will discuss a deal with you".
Javik nodded "Better then what we just been through".
Jaylah looked at Evelyn on the floor "Leave her here I will lock the door behind us and she will be safe".
Javik and Jaylah then ran out the cell area locking the door keep Evelyn safe and ran for the bridge of the ship while taking out any Storm Troopers in their way.
Bala was popping in and out of cover killing more of Jaylah's crew as he tried to make it to the bridge of the ship and soon he managed to shoot down the last mercenary in his way.
"Mercenary scum" Bala ran down the hall and saw the bridge in the distance but as he ran to the door he saw Jaylah and Javik running from the other side of the hall and he opened fire and both Javik and Jaylah took cover behind some crates.
"You wont get away with this Jaylah! The First Order will have your head!" He let off more shots as he ran to the door into the bridge.
"Cover me!" Jaylah ordered and Javik nodded and popped out of cover and opened fire at Bala as Jaylah ran for him and at quick speed she tackled him to the ground and threw his blaster away and delivered a heavy punch to Bala's head but he blocked it and threw her off him and ran into the bridge and Jaylah ran for him.
"Jaylah!" Javik called for her and as he was about to run after then a group of Storm Troopers came down the hall and opened fire at Javik and he took cover.
"Dont let him into the bridge!" One of the Troopers screamed.
"They didnt see Jaylah go in..." Javik realised and decided to be a distraction and opened fire at them and managed to take down a few of them which made the rest run back down the hall.
"Where do you think you are going!" Javik left cover and ran after them screaming down the hall and soon the troopers ran into a living area and Javik who was still screaming ran into the room and he then screamed in fear as there was more Storm Troopers blasting at him and he made a full retreat with them chasing him.
Bala ran into the bridge and went straight for the ship controls and proceeded to open up all airlocks on the ship but before he could do it Jaylah grabbed and threw Bala away from the controls and put up her fists as she looked at Bala getting up.
"Never liked aliens!" Bala shouted and we went to punch her but she blocked it and delivered a few punches of her own and then delivered a swift kick knocking Bala back.
"Feelings mutual" Jaylah countered the argument and then charged at Bala and threw a left punch but Bala blocked it and threw and pinned her to the wall and delivered to hard punches into her stomach and delivered a punch right into Jaylah's face then brought his forarm hard against her throat trying to suffercate her.
Jaylah struggled against him but she quickly kneed him right in his lower region making him fall to the ground and Jaylah tried to catch her breath as she fell to the ground as well, Bala looked back at the controls of the bridge and struggled back to his feet and ran to it but Jaylah managed to recover enough air and ran after him, but Bala heard her coming so he quickly turned and delivered two round house kicks to Jaylah's head and she stumbled back and Bala pulled out Han Solo's blaster from his hip and went to shoot her but Jaylah dodged a shot and gripped Bala's wrist and disarmed Bala but he predicted this and quickly pulled out a knife and stabbed Jaylah right in her stomach and she gasped in pain as she looked at Bala and he pushed her back.
Jaylah looked down at her stomach and saw Bala's knife wedged right into her stomach and she brought her hands to it and despite the pain she held her breath and yanked the blade out and cried in pain as she stumbled backs and on to the floor.
Bala chuckled "Not very good at predicting stuff are you Jaylah". he slowly approached her as he picked up Han Solo's blaster and then looked at Jaylah.
"Now I know why you turned on us, you knew Han Solo didnt you?" Bala questioned.
Jaylah held on to her stomach as she looked up at Bala approaching and then she saw an open escape pod near the controls of the ship then looked back at Bala "He taught me how to survive, he was my mentor for a time!".
Bala smirked "Well you can meet him shortly, at least your death will be quick unlike Han Solo's".
Bala aimed the weapon and pulled the trigger but it didnt fire and he frowned at the blaster and that gave Jaylah the opening and she quickly used her legs and kicked the blaster right out of Bala's hands and quickly got up and delivered punch after punch to Bala's head, Bala tried to punch her back but she blocked and dodged his attacks and used her pain to fuel her determination.
Bala blocked another one of her punches and then punched Jaylah right in her stab wound and she screamed in pain and she stumbled to her knees and Bala tackled her to the ground and straddled her and put his hands around her throat and she struggled against him.
"Just let it happen Jaylah it will all be over soon" Bala smirked at her as his grip tightened.
Jaylah looked to her left and saw the escape pod and she struggled to look back up at Bala "It..is over".
Jaylah quickly grabbed a device on her hip and planted it on Bala's left hip and he looked down at the device in confusion and all of a sudden a cable shot out of it and went straight into the escape pod and attached to the pod wall.
Bala looked down at Jaylah with his eyes widened and she just smiled "Have a nice life".
The device on Bala's hip then pulled him right into the escape pod and he went face first in the pod's wall and busted his head open, Jaylah then grabbed Han Solo's blaster and took off the saftey lock and shot at the escape pod console and the door of the pod closed trapping Bala inside.
Jaylah slowly stood up holding her stomach as she was losing alot of blood and she went up to the pod and saw Bala knocked out "You will die a slow death". she then shot the pod console and the pod shot off from the ship and into space where the chances of being found was almost impossible.
Javik was running down the hall away from the Storm Troopers and soon he came to a group of Jaylah's crew and they raised their weapons.
"NO IM NOT ONE OF THEM!" Javik freaked out and Jaylah's crew opened fire and he screamed at a very high pitch as blaster fire shot past him and at the Troopers coming their way.
"What you waiting for shoot them!" One of Jaylah's crew ordered and Javik turned back and shot at the Troopers and soon the whole group of Troopers was shot down.
Javik took a deep breath as the gunfire calmed down "Is that all of them?".
One of Jaylah's crew stood next to Javik "Properly not come one lets get to the bridge".
"Evelyn awakened something during her struggle and Jaylah has turned on Bala and The First Order after finding out they killed Han Solo what will happen next? Stay tuned!