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"There has been am Awakening" Dialogue

"Han my boy," Alien Dialect

'Breath. Just Breath.' Force Vision /Past Dialogue

"Don't make me destroy you," Voice Modulator/ Droid Voice/ Hologram Voice

An: So here is something I was not expecting to do. I really got inspired by Star Wars Episode VII: A Spark of Light by Zer0the0mega108. I want to try, try being the keyword, to write a Star Wars story that actually tells a story. I will be using both a bit of Legends and "Cannon" to write the story. The Sequel Trilogy felt out of sorts like there was no guiding voice to tell the writers and directors what to do.

There was no Kevin Feige around to keep a hold on the overall story. I get directors want to put their own mark on a film franchise so incredible as this. The characters were never fleshed out. Finn stayed the same throughout the story, he never had an arc. Poe was only around because of a few screen testers wanted more of him. Phasma was hyped as the new Boba Fett and got killed not once but twice. There were plot holes out the asshole, and they didn't respect any of the classic characters. They made Han a distant father who was afraid of screwing Ben, so they made it the father screwed up the son. Leia never became the new leader of the Republic because everyone found out she was Darth Vader's child. Chewie was never going to die; I knew that.

Let's be honest the movies went overboard with the feminism. Having a female lead as the main character, no problem, but making them all-powerful for no reason is unacceptable. Here are some prime examples of that right off the top of my head.

In "The Force Awakens," Ray fights Kylo like it is nothing even though she is just discovering her powers and holding a lightsaber for the first time manages to not only hold her own but beat a man who was once the student of Luke Skywalker. I don't know, I can't just wrap my head around it.

The Last Jedi pissed me off so much. At first, it was because of how Luke was used in the movie as a moody old man that hope because he had a bad dream about Kylo. I mean, we got a scene with him milking a monster, but we couldn't get a decent fight scene with him. Now when it comes out on Blu-Ray, I get all the behind the scene stuff. Then Rian Johnson comes out and says I didn't want to make The Force a superpower. Then looking back in the movie, he goes and has Leia fly back in the ship like she is superman with The Force. Anyway, sorry for my rant now let's get on with the chapter.

Also, here is a cast list. Whenever I write a story, I like to give a visual representation of some of the characters or their voices. It is just something I do. If there is ever a new character, I will be doing the same as I did before. So here is the cast for the new OCs.

Kas – Jon Bernthal

Rhia – Elodie Yung

Temza – Cara Delevingne

T-IK – David Tennant

Jaden - Dylan O'Brien

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…

Star

Wars

Episode VII:

A Light in the Darkness

A new darkness threatens the peace that was brought by heroes of old. For thirty years, the establish Republic has stood strong. The First Order has threatened that peace and declared war on all who do not join their side.

The New Republic turns to General Leia Organa Solo to leads the brave Resistance. Leia, in need of more help, sends out a search party for her missing brother Luke Skywalker. With war looming, the Resistance will need the help Luke can provide.

As the conflicts and battles continue, a small band of bounty hunters are out on a job given to them by The First Order.

Western Side of the Inner Rim

Coming out of Hyperspace was a light blueVCX-350 light freighter. Another more distinguished fact of the ship was that it was smoking. The ship was had been through numerous battles, and the numerous laser burns on the hull showed it. The ship was not going in any direction, it was just floating in the void of space. It was dead in space. The ship went under the name of the Vigil, and right now, it was looking in need of a prayer.

Inside was no better. The walls running along the ship had sparks coming out of the exposed wires and was slightly smoking. The housing area of the turret mechanics was blowing smoking out of like a resting dragon. A flashing red light and a blaring horn sound was alerting In the middle of it was a tall, red-eyed, brown-haired, with some light grey hair around his muzzle, Shistavanen running around with an extinguisher trying to put out the fires before they even started "Hey Temza! How we doin?" he yelled as he continued to run around putting out fires. He wore a simple brown vest tunic, a pair of leather pants that stopped at the bend in his leg, and pair of beskar armbands.

Inside the cockpit was a Dathomirian woman with flowing silver hair up in a ponytail, with some of the hair falling over her right eye and a purple tattoo on her left eye that went from the corner of her eye around towards her ear. She wore a navy colored sleeveless shirt; over it was a sleeveless jacket that did not cover her midsection. Her pants were a thin cloth that hugged her figure and had red boots that went up to her calves. A belt hung from her waist that was connected to a holster that was around her thigh. She yelled back at the Shistavanen, saying, "Trying to keep us from dying. Quit bothering me!" she was rapidly typing away on the consoles and flipping switches. The calm tone of her voice made the Shistavanen nervous as he continued to run damage control. She was trying to power down as many systems as possible as to not overexert the engines and cause more damage like being unable to go anywhere or blow up whatever came first.

Temza had powered down all non-essential systems and ran to help wolf-like alien "Kas go make sure the landing gear is still okay," she motioned for him to toss the extinguisher.

"Alright," he did as the girl wanted and went to check on the landing gear housing unit. He ran past the galley and began his inspection. Luckily, the landing gear was still intact. He sighed in relief and then remembered something important "Temza! I'm going down to the engine!" he said. He didn't wait for Temza to answer. He went down to the lower deck. Looking at the doors to the engine room, he saw smoke coming from the divide of the doors.

He quickly opened the door and was met with a wall of smoke. It was bad, incredibly bad. If this was coming from the Hyperdrive, the ship could explode. Suddenly a voice in the smoke caught his attention, "T-IK, are there any more leaks coming out?" it was the voice of a young man. As the smoke cleared from the engine room, it revealed a young man standing on top of the hyperdrive with a tool belt around his waist. He also had a pair of welder goggles covering his eyes as he worked to fix the hyperdrive.

In another part of a room was a droid that was checking gauges and typing away at the engine control. The droid also had a jacking unit in a control panel as it spun around accessing and shutting down all damaged systems, the droid looked towards the young man and told him "My scan shows that all the leaks are sealed," T-IK responded. Normally a droid of T-IK's model would have sent shivers down everyone's spine and made them run for the hills. It was a hunter model, assassin class droid. The armor of the droid was a mismatch of parts. The chest module was from an IG unit. The arms were from a KX-series droid, and the legs belonged to an old HK unit that was found in a junk planet and took years for them to become operational. The eyes of the droid were a dark red that pierces through the smoke.

The young man nodded and took off his goggles and hopped off the hyperdrive. He was a man of no more than twenty years. He had dark black hair that spiked in the front of it. His eyes were a dark brown and his face while mature held some boyish charm to it. He wore a pair of black boots, his calves were wrapped in a tan cloth and brown slightly baggy pants on his lower body. His upper body was covered with a brown jacket that had a grey shoulder and collar covering that was put in place by a belt that clipped in the back to the jacket. The jacket sleeves stopped at the elbow, and on his were fingerless gloves that had a brown cloth that wrapped around his wrists. At his midsection was a belt with a holster dangling at his hip. He pats T-IK's back "Thanks for the help. Big guy,"

T-IK turned towards him and scuffed, "Me help you? Please! You are the one who helped me! Your tiny flesh brain could not keep up with the leaks. Help you! The nerve!" T-IK fired back as he scuffed and walked past the young man and Shistavanen. Kas growled lowly as the machine walked past him.

The younger man objected to the unneeded hostility from the droid by calling out, "Hey!" The young man shook his head, and the turned to Kas, "Everything okay up top?"

Kas grunted and walked out the engine room door "We're good kid. Didn't blow up, so we're good," Kas and the man went up the stair to upper level seeing Temza working on turret controls as sparks flew at her causing her to curse and throw a tool at the controls "At least not yet,"

The sound of footsteps coming up the cargo area stairs and a voice yelling from the stairwell caught their attention "Kas, Jaden! Go prep for landing. We are about to meet our employer!" By the time she came up the stairs, she was done giving an order to her crew. The woman was beautiful, to say the least. She had black hair that was cut short to not interfere with her fighting. She was a Mandalorian, after all. The woman held a gold-painted and beskar Mandalorian Nite Owl helmet under her arm. The armor itself followed the helmet's color coordination and consisted of the usual Mandalorian chest plate, vambraces, shoulder pauldrons, codpiece, kneepads, thigh, and shin guards. All of them were made of beskar steel. On the right vambrace was a mini flamethrower, wrist-mounted blaster.

Kas let out a mix of a snarl and snort as he responds, "You got it, captain," he and Jaden walked away to do their assigned tasked.

She watched the two walk off to their assigned task and then made her way to the cockpit where she came up of arguing coming from Temza and her droid "I am telling you if it wasn't for the rest of the crew we would be space dust! So, cool your sensors,"

Temza was in the pilot seat while T-IK was working in the co-pilot seat monitoring the ship as they went along, "And I am telling you Miss Temza. The young meat bag said I helped "it". Me helping a weak little flesh bag, ha! I rather have Jawas rip me apart and sell me," he hit a few more keys as he ranted.

"How far are we out?" the captain asked the duo.

Temza went back to piloting and left T-IK to answer the captain, "We are approaching the meeting point, female meat bag," or maybe she should have done the talking.

The captain just stared out into the void of space humming before she spoke "Update me when we arrive," she started to walk out of the cockpit before stopping in the entryway "Talk to me like that again, and I will personally sell you to Jawas," and she went on her way.

T-IK looked over at where the captain was standing before looking at Temza, who stared wide-eyed at T-IK, "I like her," T-IK said plainly before going back to work.

As the captain came upon Kas and Jaden doing what she saw, they had finished their final inspection, "Everything working boys?"

"Yeah," Jaden said as wiped his hands on a rag "I wouldn't make another jump anytime soon. We are going to need a new one," Rhia groaned out, another set of credits down the drain.

"Cap, what's this job anyway?" Kas asked. For as long as he had ever known her, she had always been up front with all the information about jobs. However, she was keeping everything close to her chest on this one

The captain remained silent until Kas spoke up, "Rhia, who is the client?" Kas felt the hair on his back stand on edge, not liking her silence.

Rhia took a deep breath and was about answer when a shout from the cockpit caught her attention "First Order ship just jumped out of Hyperspace!" T-IK called out.

Kas and Jaden then stared at the captain of the ship. As she walked through the ship, Jaden and Kas were right behind her, asking the question, "Are you out of your mind!?" Kas asked in a growl.

"Rhia, this crazy. These people are no better than a cult," Jaden begged. Hearing the stories, he heard he wanted nothing to do with the people who indoctrinate their followers.

"You said, and I quote, "We don't. I repeat. We don't get involved with wars," Kas yelled as they finally got to the cockpit and saw a war class Star Destroyer hailing them.

"Somebody want to tell me why we have a First Order ship is hailing us?" Temza asked, hitting button and flipping switches ready to fly out of there.

"Those would be our clients," Temza froze and turned towards her captain in shock. She then proceeded to say the same thing as Kas. This was not how they did business. Usually, they could trust Rhia with taking jobs. Now it looked their trust had been broken.

Rhia stood continuing to stare out of the observation window, she looked at her crew and gave her crew the order she was dreading to give "Open a channel to the clients,"

The rest of the crew looked at one another before T-IK did as he was told "Opening channel,"

Appearing on the holocomm of the ship was a person in an armor-plated First Order soldier. Jaden had read about this person, it was the commander of First Order Captain Phasma. A ruthless leader and terrifying commander "This Captain Phasma, to whom am I speaking to?" the woman spoke with authority and a tone that said the message of don't waste my time.

Rhia put her helmet on and stepped forward, presenting herself to the holocomm "This Rhia captain of The Vigil. We are here answering a contract that you had posted," Rhia stated as she continued to stand for a minute.

Phasma continued to stare for a couple of seconds before nodding, "Meet us on the planet of Jakku at these coordinates. Do not keep us waiting," she said with authority,then the holocomm disappeared, leaving the crew to stare at their captain.

Rhia unclenched her hands that she had no recollection of clenching. She then took her helmet off and looked over to her crew, who were glaring at her waiting for answers, "If any of you want out, I will understand," Temza looked at Jaden, who was looking towards Kas and T-IK was sitting processing the information.

Kas looked at Jaden, who nodded at the man knowing that the kid would follow his lead and then at Temza, who nodded as well "We do this, and we're done," Kas said.

Rhia smiled, showing she was glad that Kas and the crew were staying on to do this job, "Thank you, I promise you will not regret…" she started to say.

"No, after this, we are done. You are on your own. Me and the kid are out of here," Kas said as he left to check on what Jaden.

Kas walked through the ship, still fuming at what was just revealed to them, he came up one of the crew quarters that Jaden had made his own. Opening the door without knocking, he saw Jaden cleaning his DL-28 Blaster Pistol. The door opening up caused the young man to look over at Kas before going back to examining his blaster. Jaden let out a nervous sigh and looked up to Kas, "Are you sure this is a good idea?" he asked his friend.

Kas leaned against the doorframe and shook his head "No, I don't," he answered honestly. This reeked of bad news, never have they ever worked of the First Order, and they wanted to keep it that way. He then walked over to the kid and put a clawed hand on the young man's shoulder to reassure him "Once this is done, we leave and find some other work,"

Jaden looked towards his friend and nodded, then Temza poked her head into the doorway and told the duo, "We are about to land on Jakku might want to gear up," she said. The duo nodded and got up and headed to the cargo bay to get ready for their contract. Temza followed behind them, biting her lip she nervously asked the question that had been bugging her "Are you two really going to leave after this?"

Kas and Jaden looked back at her before Jaden answered honestly, "Yeah," they both felt Rhia was not worth trusting anymore after accepting a contract from the First Order.

Temza then blurted out, "Can I go with you guys? Me and T-IK I mean," she asked, hoping they would let her, and her droid goes with them, wherever they went.

Kas let out a snort, "Only if we can sell him for credits," he said as they made it to the cargo bay where T-IK and Rhia were waiting already geared up and waiting for the rest. Everyone put weapons in holsters and check over their weapons once more.

As the rest geared up the job, Jaden looked around the cargo bay and could feel the tension in the air, neither Kas nor Rhia were acknowledging each other. He just hoped none of them got killed over this.

As the cargo bay door opened, the sight before them was a vast desert that stretched for miles in all directions, showing little signs of life. Kas walked out, first adjusting the weapon that sat upon his back, taking one step out, and felt the sand on his feet, "Sand, I hate sand, gets everywhere," he rolled his shoulders and walked off his ship. They had landed on a ridge overlooking a small settlement

Suddenly a First Order drop shuttle came roaring down on to the sand below, blowing up a small sandstorm in the process. When the shuttle settled on the ground, the bay doors opened up, and a small battalion of stormtroopers came out. They then parted ways and stood at attention. Within the shuttle, the sound of heavy metal footsteps meeting the metal doors and down the platform came Captain Phasma. The holocomm didn't do her justice, the woman was tall nearly as tall as Kas and even with the armor

Rhia walked side-by-side with Kas with Temza and Jaden coming behind them. T-IK brought up the rear already armed with two A-180 blasters at the ready. They walked up to Captain Phasma, catching her attention. She then turned towards the group, and seeing the band of bounty hunters, the First Order had hired, "This is your crew?" from her tone, they could tell she was unimpressed.

Rhia stepped forward tall and proud as she could be "My crew will handle any job you throw at them," she said with confidence. Phasma looked them over again before motioning Rhia to follow her.

As went over the ridge, they saw a small settlement with no more than twenty small homes, that was when Phasma told them what they were to do while pointing at the settlement "You are to go down there and capture the village elder. We want him alive," she looked at them, gauging their reactions. None of them looked to be questioning the job, "When you find him signal us, we will take it from there," Phasma said.

The five-man crew all looked at one another and began walking towards their destination. Kas finally spoke after getting far enough away from the stormtroopers and Phasma, "Something's going on. They wouldn't hire bounty hunters for a job this simple. They have the stormtroopers for that," He grabbed his DLT-19 heavy blaster rifle from his back and held it at the ready.

Jaden agreed with Kas, "This feels like a set-up," he said as they made it to the outskirts out the settlement.

"Not the time to talk, boys. Time to go to work," Rhia said as she ready her WESTAR-35 blaster pistol. As they finally made their approach to the small settlement, she saw that they caught the attention of the people. Some of them pulled out blasters of their own as if to say that's close enough. Temza pulled her DL-18 blaster pistol from its holster, ready with the rest of the crew. Rhia stepped forward, still holding her blaster, not in the least bit intimidated, "We just want to speak to the elder of the settlement. Bring him out, and we will be on our way," Rhia bargained.

The settlers now aimed directly at the Mandalorian ready to open fire, causing the rest of The Vigil's crew to draw their blasters and aimed at the settlers. Suddenly two men came forwards from the settlers, one young man with dark hair and wearing a brown leather jacket and a man much older as the wrinkles and white hair showed. Along with them, an orange and white BB unit rolled with them. The older man put his hand on one of the blasters that were aimed at the crew and pushed it down, which caused the others in the settlement to follow "I heard you were looking for me. Can I help you?" the elder spoke.

Rhia did the same to show violence was not her first action, and the crew did the same, "We were paid to capture you and bring you to our employer. Come quietly, and your people will not be harmed," she said truthfully. They came for him, not the settlement. They would not hurt people outside the contract.

Jaden and Kas kept their eyes trained on the settlers as they still disliked the option that was presented to them. Suddenly the man smiled lightly and nodded "Then take me," he brought his hands up in a waiting manner to be cuffed.

The younger man pulled back the other man, "Wedge don't," he shook his head, telling the man this was a bad idea. When Jaden heard that name, he felt he heard that name somewhere and tried to conjure an idea in mind.

Wedge lightly pat the man's hand that grabbed him smiled at him, "It's alright, Poe. Go, you have what you need," he then walked forward towards the crew. Kas then stepped forward and gently took the man by the shoulder.

However, the peace negotiations broke down as the First Order shuttle from before came roaring towards them before landing only a couple of meters away from the settlement. Kas looked towards Rhia while putting the man known as Wedge behind him. Kas then looked at his captain, "What's going on, Rhia?" asking if she knew what this was. Rhia looked at him and shook her head.

"Uh, guys," Temza said as the stormtroopers all marched out in formation along with Phasma. Temza aimed her blaster at the stormtroopers who returned in kind. Jaden and T-IK readied their blasters as well, and T-IK had armament released out of his back, showing a buzz saw and flamethrower.

Phasma did not turn towards the bounty hunters that were aiming at her troops, they were not her concern "Hand the prisoner over and be on your way bounty hunters," she told them. Kas looked at Rhia, who looked over expectantly. Kas brought the man forward who did nothing but look at metal suited woman with disdain, "Where is it?" she barked out.

Wedge just continued to stare at her and replied, "Where's what?" he asked, still not showing any emotion.

Phasma walked into the man's space and face, trying to intimidate to no success she then said, "Wedge Antilles. Still the resistance fighter as always," which caused Wedge to smile.

Jaden finally put two and two together as he understood who Wedge really was "No way," he said softly he was looking at the back of a legendary pilot of the old resistance. He then slightly turned towards the settlement. The people there were in danger. Jaden then called out "Kas," he said in worry. Kas nodded, knowing how the situation was going to go.

Rhia did something unexpected as she came between two and went in front of Phasma "We did our part, now where is our payment?" she demanded. Phasma turned to Rhia, but her helmet made her it hard to read her expression and thoughts.

Phasma then completely turned to the Mandalorian who was the leader of the bounty hunters that stood between her and the prisoner that they were hired to capture "What did you say your name was again?" she asked with a little more interest than before.

Rhia stepped forward, looking up silently at the taller woman, "My name is Rhia. Rhia…" suddenly, she pulled a Baskar knife from a sheath on her hip and tried to stab Phasma. However, she was stopped mid-motion. She grunted as she tried to move, but she was being constricted by an energy.

Suddenly the sound of footsteps on the bay doors. The footsteps revealed to be a man dressed in all black and a mask that was all black as well. The only other color that was present on the helmet was silver-colored bands that wrapped around the eye and cheek section of the helmet. His hand was out in the direction of Rhia, "That is far enough bounty hunter," the voice modulator in a mask made his voice deep and lifeless.

As he walked towards Rhia, Kas felt the hair on his back stand up on end. This man radiated darkness, and they needed to getaway. He had heard rumors about this man, a Sith Lord who was one of the leaders of the First Order, Kylo Ren. Jaden felt cold like he was in a frozen tundra of Hoth. Underneath it, all was a raging inferno that was beneath the darkness that was ready to lash out at any given moment.

Jaden and Kas aimed their blasters at the man who did not look at them. They were no threat to someone like him. He then waved his arm, and Rhia went flying over them. He then walked up to Wedge, who stared at Kylo with sadness. Kylo stared at him in then his chilling voice spoke "Look how old you have become,"

Wedge smiled at the man "That's what happens when you get old kiddo," he shook his head before he frowned "You changed too," he said in disappointment.

Kylo scuffed and continued on what he was here for "You know what I seek. Give it to me," he reached a hand out expectantly.

Wedge looked at the hand and then continued, "You know I can't do that. It's long gone," he gave a sad smile as he knew what was coming next.

Kylo closed his hand, and as rage surged through his body, he reached for his hip and produced a weapon that let out a hiss when it was activated. It was a red-bladed lightsaber with two blades shooting out the side like a guard to a sword, the blade itself was fluctuating and crackling. Kylo put the blade through Wedge, ending his life before kicking him off and in angry voice told Phasma and the stormtroopers, "Burn this place to the ground. Find the key, kill everyone," he then looks at the bounty hunters who were hired "Them as well,"

Jaden heard what Kylo said and opened fire immediately, causing two troopers to drop dead in the sand. Phasma pulled a blaster out of her own and fired. The bolt almost hit Temza, but luckily T-IK stood in front of her, "Finally, I have been dying to do this," he said as he unleashed hell. Blaster bolts hit him in the chassis, but it did little to stop him. Temza used T-IK as a cover as she would peak out a fire. Jaden and Kas were retreating backward as they tried to avoid the blaster fire.

Without warning, blaster fire started coming from behind them. The settlers were firing at the stormtroopers as well "We got back up!" Jaden yelled. However, a blaster bolt flew past his head, giving a second thought.

Kas grabbed Jaden and put them both in the sand "They want us dead too!" he yelled as he was quickly trying to figure a way out of the situation. He had to get the kids out of here, "Temza!" he shouted, grabbing her attention, "Get back to the ship!" he then dragged Jaden with him as he stood up.

They sprinted in the direction of the settlement. Kas was watching as settler after settler was killed. They stepped over their bodies and took cover using the buildings and returned fire. The settlers were only delaying the inevitable. Both of them went for cover as they used the building in the settlement as cover. Temza sprinted towards the ship as T-IK followed behind her, using himself as a shield. T-IK had both arms rotated backward and firing killing stormtroopers.

Kylo Ren stood back and watched events unfold, it was slightly amusing and bothersome that the bounty hunters were still alive. All the settlers had surrendered by this point or died. If anything, their credits were put to good use. The team was competent, at least. Then he felt something was wrong, a disturbance. The sound of a blaster firing came from behind him. He activated his lightsaber and turned around used The Force to put the blaster bolt and the man who fired into stasis.

Poe had given the key to BB-8 and told him to run. He wanted to help Wedge and stop the bounty hunters. However, he didn't make it as he watched Wedge be cut down by Kylo Ren. He snuck around to try to kill one of the leaders of the First Order. He went unnoticed as he snuck around all the troops and took aim with his blaster-rifle and fired. He watched it sail towards Kylo Ren when he suddenly turned around and stopped it in mid-air. Poe then noticed he could not move either.

Kylo Ren knew this man he was a resistance member, then gave orders to two stormtroopers who were astonished by what they were seeing "Bring that man to me," he ordered. He walked towards Phasma to give her an order. The blaster bolt then flew past the stormtroopers and hit the sand, blasting a small spray into the air.

Temza was closing in on the ship fast, she had been lucky as she had used T-IK as a mobile cover. As she hit the cargo bay doors, she turned to T-IK, calling out, "Stay here and hold them off! I going to get the ship off the ground!" She disappeared up the stairs to the cockpit. T-IK fired rapidly, killing troopers with ease as he stood on the cargo bay ramp, cheering as fired, "This is magnificent! So many flesh bags so little!" he cheered as he had the time of his manufacture life.

Jaden peered around a corner of his building he was using as cover to see three stormtroopers rounding up people who had surrendered. He then quickly fired at the first stormtrooper, killing them. The next one quickly turned around about to raise his blaster, but Jaden reacted quickly, catching the blaster while it was still aimed downward. Jaden brought an elbow down on the helmet, then whipped the blaster at the trooper's covered face and finally put a blaster bolt in the person's head. He then waved off the people, "Run, get out of here!" he yelled. The people ran out into the desert. Suddenly he came under fire as he was spotted by more troopers, as he scrambled behind cover, he saw that his efforts were in vain as the people were killed.

Jaden tried to peek out only for blaster bolts to hit the wall close to his face. Jaden could make out four men that were pinning him down. Kas then leaped from one of the homes and used the stormtroopers to cushion his fall. He rolled off them and pulled a large blade out of the sheath on his back. It was a sword that was four feet in length from tip to hilt. The hilt was a more curved handle that was more of a handle to a blaster pistol. The guard was black, and the blade itself was a steel grey. The end of the sword contained an energy outlet.

The Stormtroopers back away slightly, but they quickly aimed at the Shistavanen. Kas, however, was not idle as he slashed one across the chest, then followed up quickly with a spinning slash to kill another trooper. The third trooper managed to get a shot off, but Kas used his blade to block the bolt that dissipated when it made contact. Kas then leaped high in the air, the trooper followed firing as he did. The trooper stood still trying to shoot the descending Shistavanen. Kas landed on the trooper crushing him into to ground.

Then the final stormtrooper walked up to the man, before throwing the blaster aside and spoke, "Bounty hunter scum! Hiring you was a mistake," he said as he pulled a shock baton from behind the small of his back. He extended it as electricity crackled through the baton, he twirled it around him, then did a flashy spin around his legs and finally swung up aiming for his chin. Kas slashed downward, meeting the baton. The stormtrooper tried to overpower the Shistavanen, but the alien was much stronger than the human.

Kas suddenly smirked, and the stormtrooper noticed the energy outlet began to glow and Kas spoke "Whoops," he said casually before pulling a trigger in the hilt which shot a blaster bolt out of the tip of the sword putting a hole in the trooper's helmet and blowing the stormtrooper off his feet. Kas sheathed the blade as he went over to where Jaden watched the scene unfold, "You okay, kid?" he asked Jaden, who nodded. He then suddenly pushed aside Kas and shot another stormtrooper who was about to shoot Kas in the back.

"Just fine old man. You?" Jaden joked to the Shistavanen, who smirked and then motioned for Jaden to follow his lead as they stealthily moved to hide behind the debris to see that the stormtroopers have gathered all the settlers that have surrendered in the center of the settlement. All of them were being corralled like Banthas. Suddenly the remaining stormtroopers took aim. Jaden nearly jumped out to try and stop them, but was stopped by Kas who pulled him back behind cover "Kas," Jaden whispered harshly and went to go save those people only for Kas to pull him back down again. Jaden tried to struggle as he kept putting his hand out only for Kas to stop him. Jaden looked at Kas with horror-stricken eyes mixed with rage "They are going to kill them!"

Kas pinned the young man to the ground and replied harshly in a whisper, "I know that. You go in there half-cocked they will kill us too,"

"What are we supposed to do?" Jaden asked as he watched the stormtroopers about to open fire.

"When they fire, we make a break for the ship," Kas said as he told Jaden bluntly, "If I fall, you keep running you hear me?" he told Jaden. Das looked at the man in shock, he didn't expect to make it out of here alive. Then the stormtroopers opened fire, and Kas yelled, "Go!" Jaden started to run, but as he heard the screams of the people, he turned to watch in horror as they were killed. Kas then pushed him in the back to get him running.

Their escape did not go unnoticed as Phasma watched as they ran, she called for stormtroopers to attack the fleeing bounty hunters "Kill them everyone except the captain I want to deal with her personally," she told them. The stormtroopers all went after except one that was grabbed by Phasma. The taller woman stared at the stormtrooper, "You will be sent back to the reprogramming center FN-2187," she said coldly, which caused the stormtrooper to look up at her, his mask hiding his fear.

Kas and Jaden ran for their lives as blaster bolts flew all around them, occasionally they turned around to fire only to miss themselves. Suddenly the sound of a high-powered blaster bolt blew back a stormtrooper. Kas caught a glimpse of the blaster bolt's trail coming from a ridge where a blaster bolt shot again, killing another stormtrooper. Kas knew it was Rhia, he knew the sound of her NT-242 Sniper Rifle anywhere.

With the cover given by Rhia, they made it to the ship, where it could be mistaken as a small graveyard with the number of stormtroopers that splayed out in the sand. Then standing on the cargo bay door was T-IK, slightly damaged and sporting multiple blaster burns. T-IK watched the two male members come up "About time you two came back. Oooo how delightfully, you brought more things to kill," he said as he started firing on the stormtroopers.

"Droid! Why is the ship not off the ground yet!?" Kas asked as he ran by and took cover in the ship where he could still provide covering fire. Jaden mimicked Kas as he fired, hitting a stormtrooper.

T-IK fired, killing more stormtroopers and, in a cheery voice, answered, "Miss Temza went to power up the ship. Haven't heard anything since," he said as he looked at Kas but continued to fire, killing storm troopers.

Jaden went running up "I'll go see if she needs help!" he yelled down to the two.

"Go, kid!" Kas answered back as he continued to hold the line with his droid counterpart. Kas fired his weapon along with T-IK, who was maniacally laughing.

Jaden got to the cockpit to see Temza pressing every button on the console and to hear the ship power-up, but only for it die down "What's wrong?" he asked as she looked at her fellow crew member.

Temza groaned in annoyance, "If I knew that, I wouldn't be doing this!" she flipped, switched, and pushed more buttons to emphasize the predicament. Jaden then went over to the co-pilot seat, pressed a button, and flipped a switch, causing the ship the come alive and stay alive.

He then smiled at Temza, who looked at him with disbelief and told her, "Magic touch?" he said coyly before he ran to tell the others.

Temza looked at his back as he left then looked around the cockpit, "Listen to him, huh?" she gritted through her teeth as she started to get ready for take-off.

Kas and T-IK were holding off the stormtroopers as they could not make onto the ship. Suddenly Rhia came running in and firing from behind the stormtroopers, making a path towards the cargo bay doors. She got to cover just like Kas and provided cover. Kas called out, "Wondered where you went?"

She continued to fire as she replied, "Take more than that to kill me,"

Jaden came running down and yelled, "We are taking off! Get inside!" he warned, and everyone did as he told them, with T-IK still blasting through the closing gap. The stormtroopers concentrated their fire on the ship.

Kas went up to the turret system hopped into the gunner seat, but found the guns not inoperable "Weapons are offline!" he yelled to Temza.

As she was strapping into the seat with T-IK in the co-pilot, she yelled back, "Hadn't gotten around to it yet! You were lucky I got the engine working!" Jaden ran out to the turret controls and attempted to reroute power to the guns.

Outside the ship, the stormtroopers were firing everything they had at the ship. The damage they were causing was minimal, with the blasters only doing superficial damage to the hull of the ship. Kylo Ren walked up behind the stormtrooper as the ship was now starting to rise into the air. The ship turned and began to fly off, leaving the First Order behind. Kylo Ren reached out his hand and used The Force to stop the ship.

Temza tried to maneuver the ship forward more, but again to no avail, "Why aren't we moving?" she tried pushing more power to the engines. The ship continued to strain and still not move.

Rhia ran over to a monitor that showed Kylo Ren reaching out to them, stopping them with the mythical power "It's the Sith Lord! He's stopping us!" she yelled as the ship suddenly dipped and started to be pulled down. Rhia looked over to the screen seeing Kylo Ren pulling them down, "We're going down!" she screamed out, terrified.

Kas and Jaden were able to hear them where they were on the ship. Jaden gave a look to Kas, who looked at the kid and then processed what the kid was going to do, "No kid don't!" he yelled as he tried to reach out to him. Jaden felt deep down within himself and felt the energy that was always present; he then condensed it around himself. He built up energy till couldn't be contained anymore, and he unleashed it, throwing his arms and hands up, letting out a yell of exertion.

Kylo held the ship within his grasp with The Force. He was in the process of bringing it down out of the sky. The bounty hunters were going to die for their actions. However, he then felt a disturbance in The Force. Then he felt his grip loosen, and then suddenly an explosion in The Force pushed away his hold "Impossible," he said as he watched the ship shoot off away from him.

Temza was fighting with everything she had to get the ship moving, she had the engines at full throttle, and it was redlining by the amount of stress they were on. The ship suddenly jerked and rocketed out of her control. She tried to get the ship under her control to no avail, then she got on the comm system of the ship and yelled through it, "Everyone hold on!" Temza fought for control of the ship. It started to gain altitude when suddenly an explosion rocked them within their seats, then another "T-IK what happened?"

The droid quickly brought up a damage report "Engines two and four have overloaded, Miss Temza," he said rather calmly, and then he told her "There is good news, however,"

Temza could not believe what she heard. Two out of the four engines were gone, and they were about to probably blow up in mid-air, "What's the good news?"

T-IK looked over at her and told her the new "We're about to land," Suddenly, their ship's nose-dived the ground coming at them rapidly, and then their world went black.

Kylo Ren watched as the ship flew into the distance and then back at his hand, what he felt was powerful. It was unlike anything he had experienced for many years, he then dropped his hand and walked back to his ship when Phasma walked up to him "Orders sir?"

Kylo continued to walk towards the shuttle, not even glancing at her "Leave them. When they leave the planet, we will deal with them then," and with that, all the First Order members left the planet to head back to the Finalizer.

Jaden felt like he had tried to ride a Bluurg for hours and failed every single attempt. He was sore all over, and he had dried trail of blood coming from his head. He looked around and saw the ship was still in one piece. He sighed as he got up even though his beaten body protested, "Everyone alive!?" he called out.

A voice from the cockpit called out to him, "In here!" He made his way to the cockpit seeing Temza already up and working on T-IK as the droid was shutdown. The woman had a busted lip and a few bruises on her arms, but she was still moving around. Temza had a small set of tools out and using a small soldering gun that sent sparks as she made contact with the chassis of the droid. When nothing happened, she started to slightly panic, and she used it more and more, "Come on. Come on. Come on," he said, pleadingly almost coming to tears. Jaden came over to assist her, picking up some tools. They worked together when the lights of his eyes flicked for a second, and Temza's mood changed, "Yes! Come on! Come on!" then the lights turned off "No, no, no, no," she stopped working too stunned to keep working

Jaden then quickly smacking the head of the droid, making the eyes come to life. Temza quickly looked to Jaden, ready to yell when the voice of T-IK brought her attention "Miss Temza, good to see you still operating," Temza flung her arms around the droid's neck with glee nearly crying and let out a slight cheer. He then looked over at Jaden, "Still alive, are you?"

Jaden chuckled at the remark but still got up and pat the shoulder of the droid, "Good to see you too, buddy," and walked out. He then looked over at Rhia who was finally steering in her seat he went over to look at her "Woah, Woah, Woah. Hey! Don't move, gotta check and see if anything's broken," he tried to look her over.

Rhia had her helmet removed by Jaden as he looked at her with concern. It was annoying as he hovered around her and she pushed him away "I'm fine," she said as she stood.

Jaden back away from the shove, "If you say so," then a growl came from the back of the ship and then heavy footsteps as Kas came into the doorway. Jaden looked to Kas and said to him, "Knew a ship crash wouldn't kill you," he said with a smile.

Kas looked over at Temza, T-IK, and finally, Jaden relieved to see all of them safe and relatively sound "Never, say never kid," His eyes landed on Rhia, and he walked up to her "You okay?"

Rhia stood and went to the Shistavanen, "I'm okay," she said, smiling up at him.

"Yeah?" he asked again.

"Yeah," she said back.

"Good, good," Kas said, and then he grabbed her by the throat and slammed her into the wall with a snarl, his teeth bared, and a growl rumbling in his throat. Rhia went for his hand trying to pry it off while he spoke to her "Now you can tell us what the hell that was all about,"

Rhia struggled as she tried to pry the hand off her throat, "Let go of me," she commanded.

"I would explain before I get angry," Kas said, applying more pressure to her throat.

A blaster pressed against his stomach didn't deter Kas from his action, "I said LET. ME. GO," she said in a quiet fury.

"Not till you tell us why you gambled with our lives!" he didn't bat an eye as he demanded.

"It was personal," she said as the grip got tighter.

"Uh-uh, you don't get to play that card. Tell us! Now!" Kas yelled, and suddenly she used the butt of her blaster to hit Kas in the face, which caused him to drop her. Rhia aimed her blaster at Kas, and he drew his Blastsword snarling. The three other crewmembers just watched the scene unfold, nobody moving, letting the two elder members standoff one another. The two stared each other down for what felt like ages, neither making a move. Kas stopped growling and put the sword back in its sheath slowly, and Rhia aimed her blaster at the floor. Kas troughed forward and looked down at her, and she stared up at him "Once we get off this sand pebble, we are going to finish this conversation," he said walking past her "Then me and the kids get out of here," and then he left the cockpit calling out "Come on let's get this old girl off the ground," Temza, Jaden and T-IK following close behind.

Kas looked to Temza and T-IK, "Go and see what needs to be worked on immediately," Temza nodded, and T-IK followed gladly right behind her. Once they were alone, Kas grabbed Jacen by the shoulder and guided him to one of the crew quarters shutting the door behind them for privacy. Jaden went over to the bed and sat while Kas stood in front of him. Kas sighed as he rubbed his eyes "What you did was stupid and dangerous,"

Jaden looked up, "What was I supposed to do? Let us get killed by that guy?" he could believe what he was hearing.

Kas tried to calm the kid "We would have found a way out. Like always," he said, leaning against the door.

"We didn't have time to think of a plan. I did this to save everyone if I didn't do what I did the First Order would have taken us and who knows what they would have done to us," Jaden argued. He looked down

"Jaden, listen to me. Never use The Force again. It will get you killed," Kas said pleadingly.

Jaden finally blows up. All the pent-up anger he kept in finally let out, "You didn't feel what I felt. The guy in all black it was a void," Jaden looked down and slightly rubbed his arms "I felt the hatred and darkness rolling off him. I never felt something like that before," some of the objects in the room started to slightly twitch and shake in their place.

Kas walked to the kid and looked down at him "I promised to watch your back, and I am doing that now," Kas he pat the kid's shoulder and walked to the open door "Let's go the ships not going to fix herself," Jaden shook his head, sighing in frustration another incident and another lecture. He went after Kas to do what he could to fix the ship.

The crew had worked from till the sun rose, trying to repair what they could with the tools they had and the spare parts they had. Jaden had finished working on one of the engines when he pulled off a pair of protective goggles and gave a heavy sigh, "Two of the engines are shot. We are going to have to replace them," he said, wiping his hands on a rag coming out of the engine room and walking to the crew in the galley with T-IK right behind him.

T-IK then stuck his node into the holo-table to project the parts they needed to fix the ship, "There is a small junkyard settlement here called Niima Outpost. Not far from it is a ship graveyard, we will most likely find the parts there," he said as he pulled out his node.

Temza replied already asking about the nick in their plan "Can the ship make it to the outpost with just the two engines? Without blowing up, of course," she could pilot anything that could fly, hover, hell even on things that used legs to move. However, she would not want to blow-up in the process.

Jaden countered, "Me and T-IK made her sky worth. I just wouldn't try flying her in space even with a working hyperdrive,"

Rhia then stood up "We know what we need to do. Let's get moving," if she had noticed she got up alone, the rest of the crew looking to Kas. Kas nodded, and everyone went to their stations.

It took them to about midday to reach Niima Outpost, and when they did, the occupants of the small outpost saw a beat to hell, smoking and nearly destroyed Vigil come back nearly crashing into the sand. As they stepped out into the blistering heat of the midday sun, a groan came from Kas, his fur making him even hotter than the others, "Alright, me and T-IK are going to go out in the ship graveyard," he said.

T-IK was less than pleased to be paired with Kas, "Great stuck with a walking carpet," he said as he looked away from Kas and started walking towards the graveyard taking in an old Imperial Destroyer, particularly.

"Jaden, you and Temza go see if there are any parts we can buy," Kas said as he dug into the pocket of his shorts and pulled a fist full of credits "Here are 10,000 credits, try and haggle for better price," he then began walking off to go after the droid. Jaden and Temza did the same as the other two,

Rhia stood there and looked at Kas as he went by, "And what about me?" she asked.

"Just stay put and guard what's left of the ship," Kas told her as he walked into the desert. Rhia groaned and went to do as she was told.

Temza and Jaden walked towards the center of the Niima Outpost, where they spotted a line of people waiting to talk to someone in a shaded shop stand. Temza looked at Jaden opening up "I'm glad we got away from that," she said honestly.

"Kas has right to be pissed. We all do," Jaden replied

"They looked ready to kill each other," Temza said, worry in her voice.

Jaden snorted, "Listen, Temza, I know that you are new to being a bounty hunter, but what Rhia did could have gotten all of us killed!" he yelled, causing attention to be drawn to them while pointing directly past her head in the direction of the Vigil.

Temza looked at him standing strong and said, "I am just saying maybe we should give her the benefit of the doubt," Jaden was about to say something but bit his tongue and just exhaled not wanting to say anything he would regret at the moment.

The two stood in silence until they were nearly at the front of the line when Temza spoke "Let me do the talking I speak the language of these kinds of people," Jaden just raised an eyebrow as he watched Temza strut over to the hut with confidence. The alien behind the counter was a Crolute that goes by the name Unkar Plutt, and he looked down at the Dathomirian from his higher position "I'm looking for a few parts, and I know a smart man like has to have some of them," she put on a smile and went to lean on the counter putting a datapad on the counter.

That proved dangerous as two men dressed in ragged garbs aimed blasters at Temza who backed up raising her hands which caused a chuckle to escape from Unkar "Smart move girl," he took the datapad in his grubby hands "Hmm, I have a hyperdrive core," the smile that crept across his face and he croaked out "I can give it to you for 250,000 credits,"

Temza's shock was not contained as she yelled, "Are you kidding me? I could buy a ship for that amount,"

"A hyperdrive core is hard to find in a place like this," Unkar let his arms out like he was presenting the planet "So a quarter-million credits doesn't seem like much for people in need and since I have the only one I set the asking price," he smiled creepily and gave a light chortle.

As Temza was arguing with Unkar, Jaden felt a pull from The Force. He walked away from Temza and was guided to a table that was scattered with different parts around and at the table with a rag in her hand rubbing grime and dirt from a piece of metal was a young woman. She was beautiful, Jaden couldn't help but stare at her near porcelain skin and her hair that was done up three buns. The young woman took notice of him and suddenly moved her parts closer to her and eyed Jaden wearily. Jaden then put his hands up, showing no intention of taking her salvage, "Hey. Woah, easy, I'm not gonna steal your stuff?" he put on a smile to try and calm the woman.

The woman wore a white tank-top, a baggy grey pair of shorts that stopped at her calves and brown boots. Around her arms were grey cloths that went up to her triceps, and on the left wrist was a leather band. Over her clothing was a sleeveless tunic that draped around her like a robe, and next to her was a staff, her preferred weapon. She looked up at Jaden and asked, "What do you want?"

Jaden couldn't come up with an answer, so he just down at the workspace across from her and stared at her. The young woman stared back expectantly, losing her patience as she slowly used the cover of the table to reach for her staff, she remembered it was the quiet ones she had to be careful of. Jaden then put his hand out, "I'm Jaden, what's your name?"

The girl looked at the extended appendage and then back at Jaden. She reached out slowly almost reluctantly shook, "My name is Rey," he said as she shook.

Jaden smiled as he retracted his hand, "So, Rey, nice name. Looking at the ship parts in front of you. I take it you been in the ship graveyard?" he asked, and Rey nodded her head "So, you know almost every ship in their right?" again she nodded "Alright here, he pulled out his own datapad and handed it to her "Think you could find some of those parts?".

Rey had never seen a datapad in such condition before, it looked almost new, but she skimmed all the part they were looking for and then handed him back "You will be lucky if you find any of those out in the graveyard," she then pointed her head towards where Unkar and Temza were still haggling "Unkar has most of those parts, but he can smell when he can take advantage of people. You will be lucky if he gives you any of those parts for a reasonable amount," Rey answered.

Jaden peered back over his shoulder to see Unkar's guards pointing their weapons at Temza, who was reaching for her blaster. It seemed negotiations broke down, then an idea popped in his head "What if you help me find those parts?" Rey looked at him in confusion "I'll pay of course. For every part you help us find, I will give you 100 credits,"

Rey leaned in close "200," she said her counteroffer.

Jaden leaned in closer "120,"

Rey countered "180,"

Jaden then got up "Thanks for the info Rey, but to rich for my blood,"

Jaden walked away briskly and was about to go help Temza, "Alright! 150 that is as low as I will go," he smirked his bluff worked.

He then went to Temza as she just pulled her blaster out of her holster, ready to start shooting, "Hey, hey, hey Temza lets leave the ugly fish-faced man alone," as he slightly dragged her away pinning her shooting hand to the side. As he maneuvered her to the table Rey sat at "Temza, meet Rey," Temza stared at the younger woman who looked at the woman with the fairer skin then her "She is going to help us find those parts,"

Temza looked at Jaden in shock then back at Rey, "Are you kidding?"

An: Alright everyone! There it was my take on the sequel trilogy. I hope you all enjoy reading as much as I did writing it. Also please got to page and do the poll I have posted, I hoped to have taken it down by now but I am in a deadlock for a choice so please go and vote if you would. It will make my day. Thank you.

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