"This is it, the debut of the Knights Of Ren and of course Rey is having troubles of her own...whats gonna happen in this chapter? Lets find out"
Chapter 26: Ranza Ren
Tired and dirty Rey rushed through the narrow path she through Kylo Ren through hoping to find the Sith ready to take him down if he showed up, she didnt know how far she was from the Temple of Moraband. The sound of the wind echoed through the narrow path and all Rey had for a source of light was her lightsaber.
"Kylo! Show yourself!" Rey shouted as she rushed through the dark path keeping an eye out for any sign of movement in the shadows, but there was no movement and no sound.
Rey continued to rush through the path leading god knows where and soon she came to a stop as her legs starting buring from running, pointing her lightsaber in multiple directions to light up the area and she saw nothing hiding in the shadows.
"What do you hope to achieve Rey?" Kylo Ren's voice echoed.
Rey looked in all directions trying to him her foe but he was no where near her. "Peace...".
"Do you really think you can achieve it? Knowing that you betrayed those you claim to love" Kylo mocked.
"You dont know me, I'm doing this to save them!" Rey argued.
"I consider running off leaving whats left of your family undefended, admit it you carry hatred cause you believe your loved one think you are not ready...what Evelyn did while you recovered" Kylo Ren revealed.
"You know nothing" Rey continued to look in all directions.
All Rey heard was Kylo Ren chuckling. "Dont I?, Evelyn diving into your mind?. Telling you to stay away from this planet? Tell me if what you seek here can save your loved ones why would they stop you?".
Rey was silent as she looked around and all of a sudden Kylo Ren jumped out of the shadows striking at Rey but she blocked it and continued to defend herself until the two entered a saber lock once more and Kylo Ren looked right at her. "Because they know you are not the Skywalker they wanted".
"SHUT UP!" Rey pushed hard knocking Kylo Ren back and she gritted her teeth as she striked hard as she pushed forward, the two went back and forth as they went through the path, the sounds of lightsabers echoed through the path and Rey was swinging like a woman possessed determined to take Kylo's head off but her movements made her predictable.
Kylo Ren then saw Rey raise her lightsaber up and she striked down hard and all he did was side step out of the way as she stumbled forward but she quickly turned around and blocked another attack.
"They are right, you are not the Skywalker they needed" Kylo Ren mocked and then slashed left and right trying to hit Rey as she was forced back until she stumbled over a tiny rock and she crashed to the ground and Kylo pointed his lightsaber at her as she froze looking at him.
"You are nothing but a scavanger...a mistake" Kylo Ren stood over her only for Rey to swing her lightsaber getting Kylo's away from her and she quickly stood up as Kylo Ren charged and continued the attack.
The cousins went back and forth until they finally can to the exit out of the path and were finally back out into the open and Rey screamed in rage trying to kill Kylo but she could not land a single hit. Kylo soon jumped back gaining distance and Rey charged at him screaming desperatly wanting to kill but all of a sudden she fell down a small gap she didnt notice on the group and fell into darkness.
Rey grunted and gasped hitting rock after rock as she fell in the deep dark pit and soon her back hit the ground hard knocking the wind out of her, her body screamed in pain from hitting rocks on the way down and soon she looked up to the light from her she fell from and thats when she saw Kylo Ren walk to the edge of the hole and looked down at her.
"You are no Skywalker...you are nothing" Kylo Ren mocked and then walked away leaving Rey alone in the deep dark pit and soon Rey's eyes grew heavy and she passed out alone in the darkness.
-Undisclosed Location-
Speeding across the plains of the sand planet Evelyn was driving her speeder bike with the oldest daughter of the Engineer in front of her while Finn was sitting behind Evelyn holding on to her waist, next to her was Javik driving the other speeder with Jessika sitting behind him holding the baby girl in her arms with BD-1 watching over the little one. As they speeded through the desert the sun soon started to rise bringing the new day and for once things were going their way.
The group speeded across the open fields and soon in the distance was the Tempest which caught the oldest sister's attention.
"Is papa there!?" The girl looked at Evelyn behind her and saw her smile "He is little one, he's fixing our ship".
"I've missed him!" The girl shouted and Evelyn chuckled "You will be with him soon sweetheart, hang on!".
The speeders reached top speed and shot right towards the Tempest and after a good ten minutes they finally reached the saftey of the ship.
On top of the Tempest the Engineer with a few maintenance droids were welding the two remaining thrusters together and all of a sudden he heard the sound of speeders, quickly looking up to the direction the sound was coming from and thats when he saw the one thing he had in his life.
Taking his goggles off he rushed down the ladder up against the Tempest wings and as he turned he saw Evelyn and her group come to a stop and among them he saw his little girls being taken off the bikes.
"Lydia! Hope!" The enginner cried as he rushed to them and the oldest girl Lydia turned and ran to him as she cried "Papa!".
Lydia ran as fast as she could and soon she ran right into her father's arms and they held eachother tightly.
"I thought I lost you!" The Engineer cried as he held his daughter.
"They saved us Papa...they saved us.." Lydia struggled to talk as she cried into her father's chest.
Evelyn couldnt help but smile at the sight before her and she couldnt help but get a little emotional too as this was something she couldnt have with her father, memories of her parents being killed flooded her thoughts but what mattered at this moment was she and her friends prevented the same thing happening to another family.
Jessika slowly came up to Evelyn while holding baby Hope in her arms with BD-1 latched to her shoulder looking down at Hope making sure she was ok and the two just looked at the sight before them, soon the Engineer looked up seeing Evelyn and Jessika with Hope so he quickly stood up and rushed to them with Lydia and Jessika gently gave the Engineer his youngest daughter.
"We made a promise we would bring them back...and we did" Evelyn's eyes watered as she smiled at the sight.
The Engineer looked down at Hope as she mumbled looking up at her father and all he could do was shed a tear finally having his daughters back, looking up at Evelyn, Jesskia and to Finn and Javik as they approached and he couldnt express how thankful he was for them.
"Thank you...all of you..." The Engineer finally spoke full of emotion and soon he turned his attenion to the droid who was still looking at Hope in his arms.
"Who is that? Never saw him with you" The Engineer asked and Lydia rushed up to Jessika and the droid beeped and jumped of Jessika and landed on Lydia's shoulder as she looked up at her father with a smile.
"This is BD-1, he helped us escape the bad men. He protected us until Evelyn and her friends came". Lydia explained and The Engineer was at loss for words he never knew a tiny droid would be willing to do that, slowly approaching his daughter and then knelt down looking at the droid still holding Hope.
"Thank you BD-1...thank you so much for you did" The Engineer smiled and BD-1 let out a few happy beeps.
"Can we keep him Papa?" Lydia looked at BD-1 on her shoulder then back at her father and all he did was smile. "He protected you, of course he can".
Lydia smiled and rushed to her father hugging him and Hope and all the group could do was smile at the sight.
Soon Javik looked at Evelyn. "I better get some work done, let me know if you need help".
Evelyn smiled at Javik. "Thanks Javik" She then looked at Finn and Jessika "All of you".
Jessika then approached the Engineer and knelt down "You girls must be hungry, how about we get you something to eat?".
Lydia looked at Jessika at the mention of food and The Engineer chuckled knowing his daughter couldnt say no to food so he slowly knelt up and handed Hope to Evelyn and she gently took the baby and held her in her arms.
"Get them fed while I finish fixing your ship" The Engineer asked.
"You can stop for a while and be with your daughters, we dont mind" Evelyn offered and the Engineer waved his hand. "You brought them back, we now have all the time in the word. Right now my prioity is to make sure they get fed. Please do what you can for them".
Evelyn looked down at Lydia who smiled at her when their eyes met and soon Evelyn looked back at the Engineer "Of course" She whispered.
The Engineer placed his hand on Evelyn's shoulder still smiling. "You brought my reason for living back, thank you...".
Evelyn smiled and nodded and soon the Engineer kissed Hope's forhead and leaned down hugging Lydia once more time before turning and heading back to forfil his promise in getting the ship fixed, Jessika looked down at Lydia and offered her hand and Lydia gently took it and they walked off towards the Tempest.
While they walked off Evelyn slowly looked down at baby Hope in her arms and she saw the little girl's green eyes looking up at her full of curiosity, Evelyn and Hope just looked at each other and Evelyn couldnt help but give a gently smile at the baby and after a few seconds Hope raised her tiny arm out of her blanket covering her trying to reach for Evelyn's face.
Evelyn gently adjusted her grip and freed one of her hand's and gently offered Hope her finger and the baby's tiny hand gripped her finger letting out a mumble and all Evelyn could do was smile down at Hope.
"Your safe now Hope, no one is gonna hurt you anymore" Evelyn whispered and she could swore she saw the baby give a tiny smile like she understood what Evelyn said.
After thirty minutes both Lydia and Hope were cleaned and fed and were in the safety of the Tempest's crew's living quarters and as The Engineer holding on to Hope gently rocking her back and forth as she slept both Evelyn and Lydia were sitting around a nearby table with BD-1.
Evelyn had a few tools on the table and she was examining BD-1, she could see he was damaged and just worn down and it was just a miracle he lasted this long however Evelyn was confident she could restore him to his former glory.
Taking her hands away from BD-1 the droid looked up at her as she picked up a tool to remove the plating on his head and soon she turned back to him.
"Ok BD, you and I know you sustained alot of damage and at this current state you wont last long. I'm gonna shut you down for awhile and fix you right up ok? Evelyn calmly spoke and the little droid looked at Lydia.
"I promise she will fix you BD, I'll be helping..." Lydia gave the droid a gently smile and soon BD-1 looked up at Evelyn and gave her a few beeps.
Evelyn gave the droid a small nod and she gently removed the plating from BD-1's head and the driod let off a few quiet beeps and Evelyn genlty placed her two fingers under the droid's head and genlt made it look at her.
"Its ok BD, dont be scared" Evelyn whispered as she smiled and gave the driod a wink and the droid just looked at her, soon she reached into his head and flicked a switch and BD-1 quickly shut down and collapsed only for Evelyn to catch him and gently placed him down on the table.
"Is he gonna be ok?" Lydia asked looking up at Evelyn.
Evelyn slowly looked at Lydia and gave a small smile. "He will be ok, its gonna take a while but he will be much better after we fix him up. After all you said you were gonna help".
Lydia smiled at Evelyn and they both turned and began to work on repairing BD-1.
In the medical room Finn was patching himself up from the battle before and soon Poe entered and approached his friend. "How you doing Finn?".
"Ah I'll live, just a few stitches" Finn simply stated finally sealing a cut and Poe slowly sat in a chair next to Finn and looked at the door leading out of the room. "I think theres something wrong with Jaylah".
Finn frowned and looked at Poe "What do you mean?".
Poe shrugged his shoulders "Its proberly my imagination but 3PO mentioned that he saw her and Javik kissing".
Finn's eyes widened "Are you serious? I thought she hated him?".
Poe chuckled "I thought so too, but when me and her were working together while you guys were saving the girls I have noticed she is unfocused. Like she is day dreaming...normally she is sharp at everything but I have had to point out a few mistakes she made".
"Have the two of them talked since we came back?" Finn questioned and all Poe did was slowly shake his head. "Not a word, she even avoids him. Hell when we were working in the engine room Javik came down to update us and suddenly she went right out the door".
Finn looked to the door thinking over the situation and after a few moments he broke the silence. "They havnt spoken since then?".
"Not a word...Jaylah's decided to explore the surrounding area to clear her mind" Poe crossed his arms with a sigh. "But if it affects them working together we are gonna have a problem".
Finn gave a small nod "Your right, right now lets get things working and then we will sort this situation out. Just keep them apart for now cause we dont know if this was intentional".
"I assume it was a heat of the moment which Jaylah regretted, but yeah we will keep them apart until further notice". Poe agreed.
Finn finally finished patched himself up and he got up and stretched his arm getting feeling back in it. "How are the repairs coming along".
Poe leaned back in his seat with his arms still crossed "Thanks to the engineer and his droids...the armor plating has been repaired and upgraded, R2 and a few other droids are working on improving the sheilds and right now we are putting our two remaining thrusters together by putting them next to each other right in the middle rear of the ship".
Finn finally got feeling back in his arm and he then turned to Finn "How long before we can move? Rey is gonna need us".
"The way things are going its gonna be a few hours, so we are gonna have to break our bones if we want to get things moving quicker" Poe sighed.
"Well lets get to it" Finn stated and Poe chuckled and got up heading to the door to get the job done.
The hours dragged and the heat of the sun rained down on the Tempest and its crew but despite the intense heat everyone did their part and soon everyone decided to take a few hours rest until the heat had died down.
Evelyn who replaced her vest coat and shirt with a white vest resumed repairing BD-1 after taking a break to help the others repair the Tempest and there by her side was Lydia being her little assistant.
They completely stripped BD's covers off him and they cleaned and repaired his plates followed by giving them a new colour, Lydia suggested cause they worked together repairing BD-1 they should both have their favourite colours on him so the plates were covered in jet black which Lydia loved and Evelyn added her favourie colour and gave the plates yellow stripes.
As Lydia painted the plates Evelyn re-wired BD-1's circuits and repaired those which were broken, she left no stone unturned as she took BD-1 apart even though Lydia hated seeing BD-1 like this she knew they were doing this to make him better.
The two went on for another hour and soon after replacing BD-1's lens and antennas and even repairing his leg Evelyn and Lydia decided to put the droid's new black and yellow platings back in the right places, with the droids body and plating as good as new Evelyn finally went to the difficult part in rewiring the circuits in Bd-1's head.
"Ok, soldering pen" Evelyn asked as she held two wires together in BD-1's head and Lydia quickly and carefully handed the pen to Evelyn and she watched her burn the wires together.
"That looks good, ok Lydia I need you get me BD's head plate" Evelyn stated and Lydia quickly grabbed BD's head plate and handed it to Evelyn, the two took a deep breath as Evelyn re-activated BD-1 and placed his head plate on and clicked it in place.
All Evelyn and Lydia could do was watch waiting for BD-1 to move, the air was tense as they waited and Lydia gently placed her hand on Evelyn's arm as she looked at the droid with worry.
"Wake up BD...wake up.." Lydia whispered and Evelyn gently placed her arm around Lydia's shoulders in comfort as she watched the droid aswell.
After a few intense seconds the droid's leg twitched and Lydia leaned forward with wide eyes and soon BD-1's lens started blinking followed by him moving his entire body.
Lydia hugged Evelyn's side with excitment as she continued to see BD-1 wake up and Evelyn just smiled and held her as they watched BD-1 slowly rise to his feet as he booted up and after a few moments the droid stretched its limbs and then turned its attention to Evelyn and Lydia looking at him.
"BD?" Lydia whispered and suddenly the droid beeped happily as he jumped and Lydia chuckled and leaned over the table and embraced the droid as she cried tears of joy seeing him awake again, Evelyn just sat there smiling at the sight before here cause just for once there was no fighting or distress but just seeing this little girl happy reminded her why she was fighting the First Order.
Lydia pulled back and rubbed her eyes removing her tears and BD-1 let out a few quiet beeps as he looked worried.
"No I'm ok BD, just happy to see you awake" Lydia finally rubbed her eyes dry as Evelyn rubbed the little girl's back in comfort and soon Lydia turned and looked up at her with a smile. "Thank you Evelyn"
"Dont mention it little one" Evelyn then looked at BD-1 and it looked at her as it walked to the table edge, the two looked at each other for a few moments but before BD-1 could beep alarms went off alerting Evelyn and all of a sudden a huge explostion was heard outside.
Quickly getting up Evelyn picked up Lydia as BD climbed on her back and she quickly rushed over to a storage room and placed Lydia with BD in it. "Do not leave this room until I come back" Evelyn sternly told her and Lydia quickly nodded a little scared as she held on to BD-1.
Evelyn then quickly rushed out shutting the door behind her and she took out Han's blaster and ran down the hallway bumping into Jessika and The Engineer holding on to Hope who was crying her eyes out.
"Evelyn whats going on!?" Jessika as she held kept the Engineer close with Hope.
Evelyn placed her hand on Jessika's shoulder and moved her back towards the crews quarters with the Engineer "I dont know but I need you to protect Lydia, Hope and their father go to the storage room and keep them safe".
Jessika nodded and rushed down the hall taking the Engineer with Hope still crying in in his arms and Evelyn turned and ran back down the hall towards the ramp of the Tempest.
Outside the Tempest Finn dived for cover behind a crate with his rifle in hand avoiding fire from a bunch of Storm Troopers who came out of nowhere and behind a crate near the back of the Tempest Poe leaned out and managed to shoot two Storm Troopers in the head before taking cover again.
Javik was out in the open just running as he opened fire until he dived behind cover aswell.
It was small group of Storm Troopers which were more then enough for the crew to take on but these troopers made sure to keep the Tempest crew pinned as they advanced. All of a sudden a huge crate was thrown right at the Storm Troopers making them dive out of the way but a few of them were killed in the process, Finn, Javik and Poe looked to the ramp and saw Evelyn rush out opening fire at the troopers as she ran for cover.
Evelyn and her team rushed from cover to cover trying to take out these troopers cause they knew there would be more on the way.
"Hold your fire!" The Storm Trooper Commander ordered and his troopers quickly stopped firing but kept their weapons on where the hostiles were. Evelyn collected her breath as she looked to her left seeing Poe behind cover with a blaster shotgun and on her right she saw Finn with a blaster rifle, however Javik was nowhere to be found.
"Evelyn Kenobi, surrender your crew and we will not harm you!" The Commander demanded and Evelyn looked around the crate and saw the troopers slowly making their way towards them but all of a sudden they all stopped and gripped their throats struggling to breath, Evelyn frowned wondering what the hell was going on and then she witnessed the troopers necks being snapped and they fell to the ground lifeless.
The Tempest crew looked on as the troopers fell and thats when their eyes spotted a group of figures covered in black and were all masked and were all holding melee weapons of all kinds, but the one that caught their attention was the one right in the middle of the figures.
They saw a woman in a skin tight jumpsuit which clung to her body and her body was built from intense training and she had thin armor platings on her arms, legs and chest. This woman also wore a mask with a hooded clock and soon she slowly walked forward with her knights staying where they were. However Evelyn knew who it was, Ranza Ren.
"Going somewhere Kenobi?" Ranza Ren spoke out as she stood amoung the dead storm troopers.
Poe and Finn quickly loaded their blasters but Evelyn waved her hand at them telling them not to even try and just stay behind cover. Despite how much they hated it.
Evelyn then quickly jumped out of cover aiming Han's blaster but Ranza just force pulled the blaster right out of Evelyn's hand and the blaster landed in her own hand.
"Such a relic of the Rebel Allience, I'm sure Kylo Ren would love this gift" Ranza mocked as she placed the blaster on her hip and now all Evelyn could do was just stand there looking at her foe.
"So your Kylo Ren's special forces!" Evelyn questioned as she kept on guard.
Ranza slowly chuckled "Good guess, but we are something more then that. However we have heard alot about you, tell me..where is your apprentice?".
"Whats it to you?" Evelyn frowned.
Ranza suddenly used the force and threw the group of dead Storm Troopers away clearing the area around them and Evelyn knew Ranza Ren was ready for a fight. "The last Skywalker, heard she ignored her Master's warning and went to the planet she was forbidden to go to."
"Your point being?" Evelyn slowly walked out into the open making sure the knights only focused on her and not Finn and Poe, her first proity was to make sure they would be safe.
Ranza could only chuckle as she slowly walked sideways going back and forth "She is stronger then you think, only thing is...she is afraid to achieve her true power".
Evelyn continued to watch Ranza's movements as she slowly moved forward away from Finn and Poe while keeping her distance from Ranza as she spoke on. "Your apprentice habours great darkness...just like her grandfather, Darth Vader".
"You do not know Rey..." Evelyn balled her fists.
Ranza slowly came to a stop as she looked on at Evelyn. "And you do?...just cause you are lovers? Tell me how many times has she chosen self intrest, you seen the visions in her head just as Kylo Ren told me. When she found out the truth that her father created Kylo Ren she lashed out, you saw it didnt you?."
Evelyn didnt have an answer but deep down she knew it was true.
"Rey's anger consumed her and in that moment she attacked her father with her saber, determined...to kill..." Ranza Ren stated.
"Your wrong...she made mistakes but she always shows regret, I wont let you manipulate me" Evelyn defended.
Ranza slowly took a step forward "So sure are you?, you do realise she and my Master and cousins right? they have a connection in the force and what he felt from recent events spoke the truth".
"Kylo Ren felt Skywalker's emotions, seeing you fall to what she believed was your death. He felt anger fueled her as she chocked the life out of those soldiers, he felt self intrest as she ran off to fight the one responsible while she left your friends to fend for themselves".
"She showed her true nature...she used...the Dark Side, she will turn. Just like Anakin Skywalker" Ranza's voice carried wieght and Evelyn quickly pulled out her lightsaber and activated it.
"I wont let that happen!" Evelyn took a defensive stance.
Ranza Ren chuckled and pulled out her own lightsaber and activated it and Red and Green shinned on the desert. "Once I bring my Master the head of the last Kenobi, I will make sure Rey will see what she failed to protect.".
Ranza then turned her head to her side to her fellow knights "Kill them all...Kenobi is mine". Then she slowly turned her head back to Evelyn.
Taking a deep breath Evelyn frowned as she slowly stepped forward with Ranza doing the same thing and soon they were in range and striking as hard as they could their lightsabers clashed, at that moment the Knights of Ren charged forward towards the Tempest determined to kill.
Finn and Poe jumped out of cover and opened fire at the Knights but they moved quick able to dodge blaster fire even able to deflect the blaster fire from Finn and Poe. Three headed striaght for Poe while the remaining two went right after Finn but out of nowhere Javik came back into view shooting at the Knights and even managed to shoot one of the knights near Poe right in his leg and the knight stumbled but his knights ignored it and continued to go after Poe.
Javik went to shoot the knight again but his foe deflected the blaster fire away from him and then turned his attention to Javik. "Oh shit" Javik whipersed but he refused to run and continued to open fire at the knight but he continued to deflect the attacks.
Evelyn and Ranza was going back and forth at fast pace clashing their lightsabers, ducking and sidestepping trying to hit the other, despite Evelyn's skills she gained somehow Ranza managed to stand her ground against Evelyn and she knew she wasnt an enemy to underestimate.
Ranza tried to get a hit on Evelyn but her foe's defenses were extremely good but soon Evelyn went to attack and that was Ranza's moment so she force pushed Evelyn sending her crashing into a nearby crate, determined to please her Master Ranza then threw her lightsaber right at Evelyn but she managed to roll out of the way and her foe's saber pierced the crate but Ranza immeadiatly called it back to her.
Finn was shooting at the two knights giving chase and he did everything he could to keep his distance but the knights were quick and soon got into range of Finn, the two knights with their melee weapons slashed at Finn but he was able to block one of the attacks by using his blaster but he left himself open to the other knight to swing his weapon right into Finn's gut knocking the wind out of him.
As soon as that happen the other knight delivered a huge right hook to Finn's chest and the sheer force of the punch knocked Finn a good distance away from them and he crashed to the ground. Poe was also having trouble as he was thrown into a nearby crate by one of the three knights who went after him and he was already bloodied and beaten from the quick assault.
Javik stood toe to toe using his two blasters to deflect the melee attacks from the single knight he managed to shoot but despite his best efforts he was soon overpowered as the knight knocked Javik's blasters out of his hands with his melee weapon and he suddenly gripped Javik by the throat and lifted him up into the air and watched as his enemy struggled against his grasp.
All of a sudden a blaster shot echoed through the area and it caught the attention of everyone from Finn, Poe, the knights and even Evelyn and Ranza as they pushed each other back.
They all saw that the knight holding Javik up by the throat suddenly fell lifeless dropping Javik to the ground and the knight fell to his back and they all saw the knight had a huge hole going through his helmet, everyone then looked to where the shot came from on right there on top of the Tempest was Jaylah holding a powerful sniper rifle and she looked to Finn, Poe and Javik.
"Get the ship ready for take off!" Jaylah ordered and she opened fire at three knights near Poe and they quickly dived out of the way avoiding the powerful shot, Poe ignored the pain in his body and quickly got up as Jaylah then shot at the two knights near Finn.
Ranza just looked at the dead knight in the distance and anger consumed her as she snapped back at Evelyn and she screamed raising her lightsaber and the two clashed once again, only this time Ranza was going alot faster.
Evelyn just continued to only focus on keeping Ranza occupied until the ship was ready for take off as she knew this fight had to be decided another day and all that mattered was the survival of her crew, all she focused on was defense until the time to retreat came.
Jaylah continued to provide cover from on top of the Tempest as Finn and Poe managed to ran up the ramp into the Tempest and all that was left was Javik and Evelyn, knowing Evelyn could handle herself she focused on keeping Javik covered making sure he would get out alive.
Aiming her sniper rifle at the knights taking cover she took a shot at a crate covering a knight and the impact send the crate flying sending the knight flying, Javik ran as fast as he could to the Tempest but soon a knight rushed him and swung his staff at him but Javik managed to duck avoiding the hit and even managed to grip the staff as the knight tried to attack again and the two entered a struggle.
Jaylah quickly turned her sights to Javik ready to kill the knight fighting him but out of nowhere another knight managed to sneak on top of the Tempest and attacked Jaylah, kicking the sniper rifle out of her hands the knight quickly gripped Jaylah before she could react and he threw her right off the Tempest and she landed hard on the ground below grunting in pain. This caught Javik's attention but also left him wide open giving the knight he struggled against the chance to headbutt him and throw him across the area landing hard against another crate.
The knight that sneaked up on Jaylah jumped off the Tempest ready to kill Jaylah but she was quick enough to roll out of the way and get to her feet as the knight landed, the knight turned to strike his staff at Jaylah but she ducked and twirled and as she spinned she took out a device which suddenly extended into her own staff and using her momentum she turned and hit her staff right at his helmet.
Jaylah's attack managed to knock the knight right down to the ground destroying his helmet in the process and it caught the attention of the other knights, they knew apart from Evelyn they saw Jaylah was a big threat.
The knights slowly came together as Jaylah activated her staff making an electric current flow through it and she took a defensive stance, she may be an excellent shooter but fighting with a melee weapon was something she did since she was a child. Jaylah was about to show her true skills to the knights.
Soon the knights rushed forward towards Jaylah and she roared in determination blocking the knight that attacked for and quickly stricked him then dodged another knight's attack and countered by sending electricity from her staff right at the knight then went to attack the rest that came after her.
Evelyn was now on the offensive against Ranza and there was just no sign of either of them slowing down, red and green clashed at lighting speed and soon they both landed a hard hit against each others lightsabers. Evelyn gritted her teeth and slowly pushed forward forcing Ranza back a few steps until she started pushing back.
"You will not save Skywalker! Your grandfather couldnt save hers!" Ranza mocked then delivered a huge kick to Evelyn's stomach sending her crashing to the floor and Ranza jumped into the air bringing her lightsaber down on Evelyn only to miss her completley as Evelyn rolled to her feet but Ranza delivered a hard swing connecting with Evelyn's saber and she knocked her foe's saber right out of her hand leaving her defensless.
Javik slowly woke up and his eyes quickly saw Evelyn's lightsaber being knocked out of her hand, time had slowed down as he witnessed the scene before him and before he even blinked he witnessed Ranza Ren drive her light saber right towards Evelyn's chest.
"NO!" Javik shouted but Ranza's saber hit Evelyn's upper body and she fell to her knees, every thing suddenly stopped at Jaylah turned and saw Evelyn on her knees with Ranza's lightsaber at Evelyn's chest and in that distraction one of the knights went behind Jaylah and lunged his blade right through her back and the blade went right through her stomach as Jaylah gasped with wide eyes.
Javik then turned and saw the knight that stabbed Jaylah pull his blade out of her and she then fell to her side and crashed into the sand lifeless.
"JAYLAH!" Javik shouted in horror as he got up picking up his blaster and shot at the Knights in rage but one of the knights deflected a shot right back at Javik and hit him right in the chest knocking him to the ground.
Back in the Tempest Poe and Finn rushed past C3PO and R2 who were trying to get systems online and as they came to the cockpit they looked out the window and saw the horror before them.
Jaylah was on the ground lifeless with blue blood pooling around her, Javik was on the ground with a blaster shot to his chest and right there in the distance was Evelyn on her knees with her back to them and they saw Ranza's light saber at Evelyn's chest.
"No...no it cant be.." Poe was in utter shock and Finn just looked on in horror unable to speak.
"CLIFFHANGER! Next chapter is gonna be very interesting as two character's plots will start coming together and of course more pain will be witnessed...To Be Continued"