"Welcome back! We have another chapter with the Resistance as they come up with a plan to destroy Star Killer Base. Its now or never as the Resistance is on the verge of extinction!"
Chapter 10: The Resistance
The Resistance finally made it back home after the battle of Takodana and Finn quickly jumped out of the transport followed by Evelyn who was helping her fellow Resistance members taking some equipment out of the transport and Finn looked around the base finally seeing the Resistance at its fullest he saw multiple ships and a huge base belonging the Resistance logo and soon he saw The Millennium Falcon land in the distance, then thats when he recognized someone coming out of a X Wing and thats when BB8 budge past Finn and rolled up to the pilot at top speed and thats when Finn finally realized it was Poe.
Poe heard a familiar beeping sound and he turned and saw BB8 looking at him and he could help but laugh with joy seeing his little buddy back and he ran to him "BB8 my buddy its so good to see you again" Poe stated as he knelt and rubbed the droids head.
"How'd you get here?" Poe looked down at the droid and it let off more beeps.
"You had help, are they here?" Poe asked and BB8 turned his head to Finn's direction and Poe looked with him and saw his friend in the distance both were shocked but were so happy that they were both alive.
"Poe!" Finn began to ran to him.
Poe got up and started walking to him chuckling "You son of a bitch".
"Poe your alive" Finn finally came up to him.
"Buddy! your alive!" Poe responded and the two friends hugged.
"What happened?" Finn asked.
"I got thrown from the crash I woke up in the night no ship no you no nothing" Poe explained and BB8 rolled up between them.
"BB8 said that you saved them" Poe stated.
Finn shook his head "no it wasnt just me".
Poe placed his hand on Finn's shoulder "You completed my mission Finn I-" Poe then looked at Finn's jacket "Thats my jacket".
Finn looked at the Jacket he wore and then went to take it off but Poe stopped him "No no no Keep it, it suits you...you're a good man Finn" Poe smiled.
"POE!" The two heard someone shout and Poe looked past Finn and saw Evelyn running towards them full of tears and his eyes widened and he walked past Finn and ran to her.
"Evelyn!" Poe shouted and Evelyn jumped at Poe wrapping her arms and legs around him holding him tightly and it made him spin and he could hear her crying in his shoulder and soon her legs left his waist and met the floor again and Poe took Evelyn's head and looked at her face stained with tears.
"I never thought I'd see you again!" Poe chuckled.
"I thought you were dead!" Evelyn finally managed to talk.
"Do you really think I'm gonna leave anytime soon" Poe rubbed the tears from her face and Finn came up to them.
"You two are together are you?" Finn smiled at the two and they looked at Finn and chuckled.
"No I trained Evelyn to be a great pilot, she slowly became my little sister" Poe smiled as he looked back at Evelyn.
"Poe's my brother Finn and always will be" Evelyn smiled back up at Poe and she hugged him again and placed a kiss on his cheek and held him tight for a few seconds but then she remembered what happened Takodana and she removed herself from Poe.
"Poe theres a problem" Evelyn finally was in a calm stated and he frowned.
Finn placed his hand on Poe's shoulder and Poe looked at his friend "We need your help".
After a few minutes of explaining what happened Poe escorted Evelyn and Finn down into the base and into the lower levels where General Leia was currently in and despite the situation Evelyn was so happy to be home.
Finn looked around looking at the heart of the Resistance and Evelyn looked back at saw him looking in amazment "Welcome to the Resistance". Evelyn smiled at him and she turned back following Poe who finally came up to General Leia who was talking to someone and soon she turned to them.
"General Leia, sorry to interrupt" Poe stated and then looked at Finn standing next to Evelyn and Leia looked straight at Finn "This is Finn he needs to talk to you".
"And I need to talk to him" Leia took a hold of Finn's hands and sighed "That was incredibly brave what you did leaving the First Order and saving this mans life".
Finn nodded "Thank you General but a friend of mine and Evelyn's was taken prisoner".
"Han told me about the girl I'm sorry" Leia had a look with the deepest regret.
"Finn is familiar with the weapon that destroyed the Hosnian system, he worked on the base" Poe explained further and Leia placed her hand on Finn's arm.
"We're desperate for anything you can tell us" Leia pleaded.
"Thats were my friend was taken we got to get there fast" Finn looked back at Poe then Leia.
"I will do everything I can to help but you need to tell us all us all you know" Leia asked once again and Finn nodded.
"I'll take Finn and he can tell me everything" Poe stated and he tapped Finn's shoulder and the two went off leaving Evelyn and Leia.
Leia smiled at Evelyn "Little Wing".
Evelyn smiled happily and the two embraced tightly.
"I'm so glad your home" Leia caressed Evelyn's hair with her hand.
"So am I" Evelyn's eyes started to water and Leia could sense Evelyn's feelings and she pulled away from her.
"Child whats wrong I sense you are in terrible pain" Leia looked at Evelyn with worry.
"I failed to protect one civilian from The First Order" Evelyn responded and Leia placed her hands on Evelyn's cheeks "No you didnt, you have done everything you could to help.. Han told me how you handled the dangers you were in and I am so proud of you and I know your parents would be too".
Evelyn smiled and the two hugged again "We need to get Rey back Leia I will never forgive myself if she dies".
Leia could feel the pain in Evelyn's heart and she closed her eyes while holding Evelyn as she never felt this much sorrow in Evelyn and it broke her heart "I promise we will do everything we can to get her back, but right now get yourself cleaned up".
Evelyn removed herself from Leia and nodded "Thank you Leia, for everything".
Leia smiled "You dont have to thank me Little Wing".
Evelyn turned and allowed Leia to sort a few things out and as she walked away she saw a golden droid with a red arm looking around and then it looked straight at Evelyn and jolted and walked up to her.
"My Ms Ryder is so good to see you alive and well" The Droid spoke.
Evelyn chuckled "C3PO I told you that you can call me Evelyn".
"I'm sorry I always seem to forget" C3PO stated and then at both sides of Evelyn "I say where is N7? he's normally never far from you".
Evelyn's smile dropped and she sighed "I'm sorry 3PO but...N7 didn't make it".
C3PO looked straight at Evelyn and then looked to the side "Oh my...I am so sorry Evelyn he was a great droid..oh what will R2 think?".
Evelyn moved closer to C3PO "I should have been quicker 3PO, its my fault he's dead".
C3PO looked at Evelyn "Now Ms Ryder we all know you would have done everything you could to save him but I am sure he is happy knowing you are alive".
Evelyn gave a small smile "Thank you...any word on R2 yet?".
C3PO looked into the corner of the room and looked at a small droid covered by a cloth "I am afraid nothing new has happened, I fear he may never wake up".
Evelyn placed her hand on C3PO's arm and he looked at her "Have faith 3PO he has been through a lot and I am sure he will come back".
C3PO looked at R2 covered by the cloth and then looked at Evelyn "I hope so too Ms Ryder".
The two then heard BB8 roll up to them and started beeping and C3PO looked at Evelyn "It would seem he is ready to show what he knows".
Evelyn nodded "I will catch up in a bit take it straight to Leia and see if you can find anything out".
"Of course Ms Ryder" C3PO stated and she smiled as she saw the two droids go to Leia.
Evelyn took a deep breath and looked at herself "I need a shower".
While Evelyn was getting cleaned up Leia and Han were near a information desk watching C3PO taking out the data chip from BB8 and placing it into the computer and soon a hologram of the incomplete map was present and C3PO examined it and looked at Leia and Han.
"General I regret to inform you but this map recovered from BB8 is only partially complete and even worse it matches no charted system on record we simply do not have enough information to find Master Luke" C3PO looked at the map piece.
Leia sighed "To think I was so foolish enough to find Luke and bring him home".
Solo turned to her "Leia..."
Leia shook her head at Solo "Dont do that".
Solo was confused "Do what?".
Leia rubbed her head as she moved away "Anything".
Solo sighed and looked at C3PO and the droid shook his head "Princesses..".
Solo turned and caught up with Leia "Leia I'm trying to be helpful".
Leia huffed as she walked on "When did that ever help and dont say the Death Star".
Back at the information table BB8 turned his head to the corner of the room and saw R2 covered by cloth so he rolled over to him and quickly removed the cloth fully revealing R2 and he beeped a few times but R2 did not respond and soon C3PO caught up with him and BB8 looked up at C3PO.
"BB8 I'm afraid you are wasting your time it is very doubtful that R2 would have the rest of the map in his backup data" C3PO stated and BB8 beeped again.
"I'm afraid not R2 has been in low power mode ever since Master Luke went away..sadly he may never be his old self again" C3PO explained further
BB8 looked up at R2 and then lowered his head to the ground giving a few quiet beeps.
Solo and Leia was in one corner of the room away from everyone else and Leia was trying to think while Solo stood next to her.
"Leia listen to me will you" Solo spoke in a quiet tone and Leia decided to look at him.
Solo sighed "I know every time you...every time you look at me I remind you of him".
"You think I want to forget him..I want him back" Leia finally spoke.
Solo took a deep breath trying to control his emotions "There's nothing more we could have done, there's too much Vader in him".
"Thats why I wanted him to train with Luke, I should have never sent him away thats when I lost him" Leia looked deep into Han's eyes "Thats when I lost you both".
Solo stepped closer "We both had to deal with it in our own way, having little Evelyn around eased the pain for a little while but seeing that little girl made it hurt more...I went back to the only thing I was any good at".
Leia looked at Solo as he spoke and he was right, Evelyn kept them from completely falling apart back when she was a child but the nightmares of losing their son was too great and what made it more hard was that Evelyn looked up to their son and it pained them to tell her he had to go away and not telling her that he was being trained as a Jedi and when their son was lost they couldn't tell her what really happened.
"We both did and I know telling Evelyn that our son moved away to live somewhere else was painful but we couldn't tell her what really happened, it would have destroyed that little just as much as it did to us" Leia finally responded.
Solo looked at her with pain in his eyes "We lost our son...forever".
Leia placed her hand on Solo's arm "No it was Snoke...he seduced our son to the Dark Side but we can still save him..me..and you".
Solo didnt sound convinced "If Luke could reach him how could I?".
Leia took a deep breath "Luke is a Jedi" she then smiled at Solo "Your his father".
Solo's body trembled as Leia reminded him and Leia then placed her other hand on his other arm and the two looked into each others eyes and Leia spoke once again "There is still light in him I know it".
Solo and Leia looked at each other and Solo had a little bit of hope that their son may still be saved and maybe this nightmare would finally end.
Chewie was being attended to by a medic in a separate room and he was explaining what happened to the medic from beginning to end and the Medic chuckled.
"That sounds very scary" The medic ran a device over Chewie's arm and she chuckled up at Chewie "You must be so brave".
Chewie grunted and nodded his head pretty much stating it was nothing.
An hour had past and everyone was around a huge table listening to Poe giving a briefing of what he knew about the weapon of The First Order.
"The scan data from Snap's reconnaissance data confirms Finn's report" Poe stated.
"They some how created a hyper light speed weapon built within the planet itself" Snap stated.
"A laser cannon" Evelyn spoke up who was standing next to Solo.
"We are not sure how to describe a weapon of this scale" Span responded.
"Its another Death Star" one Resistance Major spoke out.
Poe sighed "I wish that were the case Major" Poe went to the keypad in front of him and brought up a hologram of the Death Star "This was the Death Star".
Everyone looked at the hologram of the Death Star and soon Poe spoke "And this is Star Killer Base".
Poe brought up another Hologram of The new base and it was a lot bigger then the Death Star and everyone in the room felt fear.
Solo sighed "So it's bigger".
"How is it possible to power a weapon of that size?" One of the General's spoke up.
Finn came into the conversation who was standing next to Snap "It uses the power of the sun, as the weapon is charged the sun is drained until it dies".
Leia listened on until an informant handed her a report and she looked at it and then looked at everyone around the table "The First Order, are charging the weapon again now...our system is the next target".
Everyone in the room looked at each other and Solo looked at Evelyn who was still looking at the size of StarKiller base and he placed his hand on her shoulder bringing her back to reality and she looked at him and slowly nodded "I'm fine..I'm fine".
Solo gave a small smile as it felt like yesterday that this young woman was once a tiny child causing trouble around the base and he couldn't be more proud of the woman she has become.
"Oh my without the republic fleet we are doomed" C3PO spoke out of nowhere.
"Ok how do we blow it up theres always a way to do that" Solo looked around the table.
"Han's right" Leia looked at Han and he looked at her.
A Resistance Major spoke up "For that amount of power to be contained that base must have some kind of thermal isolator".
Finn placed his hands on the console and zoomed in on the base to what looked like a hatch "There is one, Presinked 47".
"If we can destroy that Isloator it might destabilize the core and cripple the weapon" The Major.
"And maybe the planet" A Captain responded.
"We'll go in there and hit that Isolater with everything we got" Poe offered.
"They have defensive shields that our ships cannot penetrate" The Resistance Admiral next to him responded.
"We disable the shields" Solo simply stated and looked at Finn "Kid you worked there what you got".
Finn looked at Solo and Evelyn who had hope in there eyes "I can do it".
Solo smiled "I like this kid".
"Me too" Evelyn smirked.
"I can disable the shields but I need to be there" Finn stated on the planet.
Solo looked up at Chewie next to him and then looked at Finn "We'll get you there".
"Han how?" Leia questioned.
Solo shook his head "If I said you wouldn't like it".
"So we disable the shields, take out the isolator and blow up the big gun" Poe came up with the steps and Chewie roared ready to go.
"Alright lets go". Poe stated and everyone moved away from the table and proceeded with the plan and they only had one chance to do it.
Evelyn headed outside with every other pilot in the Resistance with her helmet in hand and she was changed into her new pilot clothes and she marched down the countless X-Wings looking at everyone getting ready as she walked and in the distance she saw Finn coming her way with his rifle in hand and he went past Poe who tapped his shoulder and she saw him look back at Poe and then looked back towards Evelyn and ran up to her and the two stopped.
"You ready?" Evelyn stated.
Finn nodded "I am Evelyn I wont let you down".
Evelyn smiled and moved closer and the two embraced "I know you wont Finn, you proved that when you came back".
Finn embraced her tighter "Thank you for giving me a chance".
Evelyn smiled at his statement "Thats what friends do".
The two removed themselves from each other and they both ran towards the Falcon where Chewie and Solo were prepping for the fight and Solo turned around and saw the two and he placed his hands on his hips and smiled.
"You two ready?" Solo asked.
"More then ready" Evelyn responded and Solo looked at Finn and motioned him to check the crates and he approached her and placed his hands on her shoulders.
"Evelyn I never go the chance to say this but seeing you from when you were a little girl and seeing you now has been one of the greatest things I have ever witnessed" Solo admitted.
Evelyn frowned "Han whats this-".
"Let me finish" Solo asked calmly and he took a deep breath as he looked at her "Ever since you came into our lives you have brought more light into it then we ever thought possible and even though your parents didnt get a chance to see you grow into a young woman I know they are smiling down on you extremely proud of you...just like I am...I am so lucky to have you in my life" Solo admitted and Evelyn's eyes watered.
"No matter what happens here today and no matter what happens after it never forget that I will always love you Evelyn...never forget that" Solo's last statement made Evelyn bring herself into his arms and she embraced him tight and he returned it and placed a kiss on top of her head.
"I love you too Han, I love all of you...you were the only family I ever had growing up...and I couldnt ask for anyone better then you and Leia" Evelyn finally admitted and Solo smiled and the two finally let go of each other.
"Make me proud Evelyn, just like you always have" Solo smiled as she nodded "I will, I will see you we get back".
Solo smiled as he watched her run off to her X Wing and Solo heard a few things drop on his left and he saw Finn pick up a few balls dropped on the floor.
"Hey be careful with those they are explosives" Solo warned and Finn looked at the balls around him. "Now you tell me".
Solo turned and saw Leia smiling at him and he knew she heard everything Solo said to Evelyn and she took a few steps forward "You know no matter how much we fought I always hated watching you leave".
Solo smiled "Thats why I did it" Leia chuckled as he approached "So you'd miss me".
Leia smiled as Solo got close to her "I did miss you".
Solo looked past Leia and saw Evelyn hugging her 'brother' Poe and then looked back at Leia "Wasn't all bad was it, some of it was...good".
Leia nodded and smiled abit more "Pretty good".
She then looked back and saw Evelyn putting her helmet on and checking her ship and she then looked back at Solo "What you said to her was true, she brought alot of light into our lives...made the self centered smuggler grow a bigger heart" Leia chuckled and Solo shook his head smiling as he took her hands.
"Things never change" Solo felt comfort holding her.
"True, still drive me crazy" Leia shook her head at Solo showing that she still loved him and the two finally embraced and Leia closed her eyes listening to his heartbeat and it was a pure moment of comfort something she had missed from him and she took a deep breath before speaking.
"If you see our son, bring him home" Leia asked with hope and Solo looked on into the distance hoping that this would indeed be the day their son would come back to the light and finally come home.
Evelyn did her final checks and then looked to the Falcon and saw Solo and Leia holding each other in comfort and it made her smile and she had a great feeling things will go back to normal and with that she climbed up the ladder into her new X-Wing and she closed her eyes took a few deep breaths and collected her thoughts as she sat in the pilot seat and she finally opened her eyes.
"Rey, we're coming for you" Evelyn smiled with hope.
"A plan's been made, the Resistance is ready to fight. Everyone has their own reasons to join the fight and now the fate of the Resistance shall be decided in the next few hours!" Get ready for more fellow readers!"