Prologue: Rescuing Captain Vangotta

A storm closed in as the Resistance waited for an update on Captain Ryan Vangotta. The primary Resistance base was built on Ravardos, a planet set in the Unknown Regions. Ravardos was a planet made of ninety-five percent water, and only five percent of it was large islands. The Resistance base was built on the second-largest island, Val'gok. Lead Assistant Commander Lauren Vangotta sat and watched the waves flow to her feet, and soon her eye caught a glance of a two-headed plesiosaur, which she had named Wavestalkers. Her blonde hair blew in the wind as she pondered about the location of her husband. At that moment, she received a call from the voice transmitter on the left side of her L5-DR7 Blaster Pistol, and she answered it immediately.

"Commander Vangotta, coming in." She said, a deep breath following afterward.

"This is Leader Bailey, my escape pod is approaching Ravardos's specialized landing pad."

"Roger that."

Lauren stood and dashed out from the planet's calming beach, and past the Resistance's main base.

"Commander Vangotta, what is it?!" Loudly asked Lead Commander Corvin as she ran by.

"Leader Bailey is arriving in her escape pod, Commander." She replied quickly.

"Escape pod?"

"Yes, sir."

Lauren sprinted out from the base, and into the small patch of woods, where the specialized escape pod landing pad was built within. Bailey's escape pod ascended down from the light blue sky as the trees waved in the wind. The escape pod landed, and the door opened and out ran Rebel Leader Karis Bailey. She hugged Lauren Vangotta around the neck after she had run out.

"Where is my husband?" Asked Lauren softly.

"I don't know…" Replied Bailey.

Karis ran off towards the Resistance base shouting, "Commander Corvin!"

"Leader Bailey! What has happened?" Asked the Commander.

"Officer Foggrum is an assassin!"

"What?!"

"He burnt everyone else alive!"

"Preposterous!"

"It is true!"

Lauren Vangotta ran into the room.

"If you are telling the truth, then where is Foggrum now?" Asked Corvin.

"I'm not sure!"

Lauren raised her hand, revealing a tracking device. Lauren placed it on the table, and Bailey destroyed it instantly with her G-12 Blaster Pistol.

"HE'S FOUND US!" Screamed Bailey.

"Calm down! Foggrum will not get past our defenses!" Shouted Corvin.

"I pray you're right…" Replied Bailey.

"Now what of Captain Vangotta?" Corvin questioned.

Lauren pulled up Vangotta's location on the nearest computer.

"He's still alive!"

"How many others?" Asked Corvin.

Lauren sighed in distress.

"Only Byson and Davis, sir."

"Most unfortunate… Are they still on Kalee?"

"No, sir, they are… hovering above it?"

A confused look came across Corvin's face.

"But why?"

"The captain is being delivered." Said Bailey abruptly.

"A large ship has just entered the Kadox systems from hyperspace!"

"What?" Asked Corvin.

"Dear God… It's the Obervateur…"

Commander Byson piloted his shuttle over to the auto-piloted shuttle containing Captain Ryan Vangotta. The captain looked over to see Sargent Davis waving his palm at him.

Vangotta swiftly waved back and said to himself, "About time, boys."

Suddenly, a massive black Super Star Destroyer came out from hyperspace.

"Hicks…" Mumbled Vangotta.

"Commander! What do we do now?!" Shouted Sargent Davis.

"We follow the Captain into that Super Star Destroyer." Replied Byson calmly.

Two cables launched from the Obervateur and latched onto the two shuttles.

"I'm sorry, Lauren…" Said Vangotta.

Ryan looked over to Byson and Davis, pointing to the tracking device placed upon his belt. Ryan grabbed it, and smashed against the shuttle's wall, in hopes that the Resistance would never find him, and be destroyed by the Third Order.

"Follow the Captain's orders!" Shouted Byson, slamming his tracking device into the wall.

Davis followed Byson and destroyed his tracking device shortly afterward. Grand Admiral Hicks reeled in the two shuttles aboard the main prison.

"NO!" Screamed Lauren, falling to the ground.

She wept loudly; she had just seen the three green dots on the screen turn red.

"Lauren!" Shouted Karis, running over to her close friend.

"Captain Vangotta… He's actually dead this time…" Murmured Corvin.

Bailey walked over to Lead Commander Corvin after comforting Lauren.

"Hicks will remember this day, God as my witness." Said Bailey vengefully.

Corvin sighed as Bailey stormed off.

"Grand Admiral Hicks, this is Master Scar of Kalee."

The Grand Admiral stared into the red hologram emitting from his flagship's subspace transceiver.

"Well done, Master Scar." Replied the Grand Admiral.

"Now, I will take my reward of twenty-thousand credits, Grand Admiral."

"Unfortunately, you shall not be receiving your reward, orders from the Supreme Leader himself."

(in Kaleesh) "WHAT?!" Screamed Master Scar, slamming his staff on the ground.

Dust fell from the ceiling, causing the blue hologram to dissipate.

"The Supreme Leader has decided to allow you to keep ownership of Kalee, that is your reward."

(in Kalee) "FOOLS!" Shouted Scar once again.

The hologram ended, and Master Scar screamed in anger once again. Once Scar had calmed himself down, he sat back upon his throne. Krennic had realized how untrustworthy Snoke was, and that quite possibly, Snoke could eventually pull the same trick on him.

"Director, destroy the Third Order in the best way you know how."

Krennic sighed.

"I'll need an even larger reward for that…" Replied the Director.

"Fifteen thousand credits."

The sound of a Gruntlesnout's footsteps was heard slightly from afar.

"That's a darn good deal."

"What information is most crucial to the Third Order?"

"Snoke wants Darth Malgus. If he does not find him, he'll surely die."

"Then prevent him from finding Malgus, and you shall receive half of your total reward."

"Only half, old man?!"

"You shall receive the other half when the Third Order is mine."

"I'll see what else I can do…"

Director Jox Krennic chuckled, and he then walked out from Master Scar's hut.

Rebel Leader Bailey had been walking over to a tubular elevator protruding out from the nearby beach of Val'gok. It traversed down to an underground aquarium, where one could look through a large screen of glass to see the many magnificent aquatic creatures of Ravardos. After hearing the sound of sprinting coming towards her, she turned to see Lauren Vangotta heading in her direction. Bailey entered the elevator and Lauren followed behind her. Lauren fell on Bailey's shoulder, and Bailey held her tight.

"I'm so sorry…" Mumbled Karis.

"Don't be… It's not your fault…" Replied Lauren softly.

"Hicks… That b######."

The elevator came to a stop and the see-through door automatically opened. As Karis and Lauren entered the aquarium, an eloquent Vlanodon zoomed past the glass screen. Purple and orange light emitted all throughout the creature's medium-sized body.

"You know, I still remember the first day I met him…" Said Lauren, staring at the magnificent creature.

"I'd love to hear about it." Replied Bailey.

"I was one of the Resistance pilots that fought against the Third Order on Utapau."

"Really?"

"My A-Wing had been shot out of the sky, and I crash-landed on one of the planet's mountainsides." Lauren continued, "The sunset was beautiful that evening, and like an angel, his X-Wing rushed down to my aid. He jumped out and met the needs of my wounds… he held me tight… and we watched the Resistance fleet fall together."

Bailey turned over to Lauren.

"From that day on, we vowed that we would destroy the Third Order… together."

Tears welled in Lauren's eyes, and she began to cry softly.

"The Third Order will fall." Said Bailey, wrapping her right arm around Lauren.

"But not because of my husband!" Lauren shouted as she once again fell to the ground.

*THUMP*

Bailey fell back after hearing the tremoring sound of a large, dead shark crash against the glass screen. Water spewed out from the cracks across the glass.

"It's coming!" Shouted Karis, grabbing Lauren and dragging her away from the screen.

"WHAT IS?!"

"Serpentós…"

A massive sea-serpent rose from the ocean-deep, revealing it's large, frightening dark head. Blue lightning crackled in the creature's mouth as it roared distortedly.

"Oh s###!" Screamed Karis.

Out from the creature's mouth, blue lightning struck through the aquarium's glass screen and crashed against the cave wall nearest to Karis and Lauren. Sparks of lightning jolted in all directions as the blast decimated a chunk of the cave's wall. Karis glanced over at the bright, crackling lightning in fright, but also in deep awe. Karis and Lauren dashed into the elevator as the lightning from the creature's mouth ceased. The two women looked back at the giant sea-serpent, staring into the orange eyes of the beast, lying near to the horn between its nostrils. Karis slammed the button (in the elevator) to exit the aquarium, and afterward, the sea-serpent roared as it prepared to charge at Karis and Lauren. The sea-serpent darted towards them as Lauren Vangotta screamed in absolute terror, but just in time, the see-through door had shut, and the elevator zoomed towards the surface. The sea-serpent crashed into the cave wall, and as it did so, the elevation came to a turbulent stop.

"AGH!" Screamed the two women simultaneously.

Karis and Lauren fell to the ground as the sea-serpent roared horrifically.

"BLAST!" Shouted Lauren, standing from the floor.

The sea-serpent raised its head and fired a second blast of blue lightning. Lauren fell again after hearing the nearby destruction caused by the sea-serpent's powerful blast. Water spewed from the elevator's cracked floor, and the small room quickly started to fill with the ocean's water.

"D#####, d#####, d#####..." Shouted Lauren continuously.

Karis stood as to avoid drowning, and she then called Lead Commander Corvin on her subspace transceiver.

"Commander Corvin! Launch the elevator!" She shouted.

"Launch the elevator?!"

"JUST DO IT!"

The water had filled up to their necks, and the two stared at each other nervously.

"I'll see you on the other side." Said Lauren softly.

"Blast…" Mumbled Karis.

The entire elevator had soon been filled with water. Fortunately, at that dreadful moment, flames blew out from the elevator's emergency engine, and the elevator launched into the now cloudy sky. Karis and Lauren held onto each other tightly as the elevator crashed to the ground after being launched forty feet into the air.

*CRASH*

The elevator crashed to the ground, causing the glass walls to burst abruptly. Karis and Lauren screamed as they hit the ground, but after realizing that they had only received minor injuries, they cried tears of joy, breathing heavily as they did so.

Lead Commander Corvin ran out from the Resistance base.

"I knew that the emergency engine would come in handy one day…" He said aloud.

The third blast of lightning came out from the ground, reaching up to the clouds in the blue sky, causing loud thunderbolts to form naturally. Corvin fell back as the blast nearly incinerated him. Karis and Lauren looked into the sky, marveling at the raw power that could be seen by watching the thunderstorm form from the blue lightning blast.

"Holy s###!" Shouted Bailey.

A hologram of the Resistance Leader, Queen Aliceea Dwight, appeared off from Lead Commander Corvin's subspace transceiver.

"Lead Commander Corvin, what is the update on Captain Ryan Vangotta?" Asked the Queen.

Corvin stared at the blue lightning behind the beautiful Queen, her blue image merging with the beauty of the sea-serpent's lightning blast. Corvin breathed heavily, and soon, the blue lightning had once again ceased.

"What was that unGodly noise?" Asked the Queen, looking disturbed.

"Um… Nothing… It's just a thunderstorm…" Corvin blurted without hesitation.

"Well, what of the Captain?"

"Captain Vangotta… is dead."

The assassin Zalvor, otherwise known as Officer Foggrum, flew throughout the stormy skies of Ravardos. Lightning thrashed about, and the rain poured down fiercely onto his front window.

"D### rain…" Mumbled Zalvor.

Unexpectedly, Zalvor's personal starfighter, the Anchorite, was hit by several oncoming blaster bolts from turbolaser cannons hidden within the jungles of Ravardos's largest island: Ran'jol.

"BLASTED TURBOLASERS!" Shouted Zalvor, and his starfighter crash-landed onto Ravardos's largest island. After his starfighter had crashed, he exited the vehicle and stared into the inclement sky.

"BAILEY!" He screamed, raising his fists towards the thunderous clouds.

"Supreme Leader, I have arrived."

The voice of Hicks had come out from the speaker hidden within the Supreme Leader's throne. Supreme Leader Evandor Snoke chuckled loudly.

"Well done, Grand Admiral." Replied the Supreme Leader.

He looked over to his apprentice, Darth Ridor, and said, "My plan… is coming along quite perfectly."

"Indeed, my wise master." Replied Ridor lifelessly.

Little did Darth Ridor know, but he himself would soon be the center point of Snoke's masterful plan...

After Commander Byson and Sargent Davis had been thrown in prison, Captain Ryan Vangotta was latched onto a magnetic containment field by two Third Order Shocktroopers. Grand Admiral Hicks had imported the Resistance leaders into the Supreme Leader's flagship: the Supremacy III. None other than Officer Vaxol had walked into the room. He grabbed an electrostaff off from the wall and activated the intimidating weapon.

"Tell me, where is the Leader of the Resistance hiding, Captain?" Asked Vaxol in a sinister tone.

"I'll never tell you, b######." Replied Vangotta.

"So be it…"

Vaxol electrocuted Vangotta with the electrostaff. The Captain screamed in pain and Vaxol laughed maniacally as he did so.

"Your cries shall not be in vain."

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