Its focus now sets on the two flesh-bodied beings.
Mavka's grasp was tightened her grip on the blaster she hurriedly took hold off and could only set her eyes with trepidation at the now moving droid. Behind her was the now vulnerable General Hux. All that smugness had worn off his face and Mavka could tell his cowardice was showing through, Mavka pitied him but knew what she had to do.
Immediately after the execution, Hux had already started to flee. Mavka was determined to guide him safely out of here and found him trying to bolt through the corridors.
"General!" She exclaimed. Mavka marched her way to him. Despite her earlier feelings, she could only feel ascertainment from now on under the circumstances.
"Where are the others? How could every trooper just disappear on this forsaken station!?"
Mavka turned around and tried to contemplate every possible reason.
"Possible... hijacking," Mavka muttered.
"What? Impossible! The First Order droid's cryptogram cannot be commonly hijacked!" Hux frails his arms around as he grows agitated.
"It is all unknown... But now we must leave. General, do you possess... a weapon?" Said Mavka.
Hux lifts his coat for a bit, revealing a blaster holstered on his side. "Use it?" Mavka suggests.
"You expect me to defend myself?!" He asserts.
Mavka rolls her eyes and dismisses the idea. They began walking.
"Then I will help." She says. Yet General Hux scoffs at her statement.
"As if you can handle a blaster. You are incompetent with every bit of task I give you. Now I'll die in a shameful demise because I am always surrounded by ineptitude!" Hux berates with endless words of negativity. Mavka clenches her fists and glowers at him.
But no, she calms herself and breaths in as Hux sensed her anger spilling out.
"Can we reach others...?" She suggested.
"How?! How do you e-"
"Command center. Possibly..." Mavka muttered as she paced around. Hux tries to calm himself but he is utterly baffled and distressed by the circumstances he's put in.
"What nonsense are you speaking of, Ein?!"
"We reach the ship... get more assistance." She says out loud.
Suddenly their conversation is cut off with a loud and noticeable vibration closing in on them. Mavka leads the way moving away from the certain area they lingered and immediately ran off to an obscure path.
The whole station continued with its blaring red light filling the domain. Mavka was feeling tense about their situation but kept an eye out for the meantime.
They walked in the emptiness for a while now as Hux was growing irritable.
"Do you have any sense of where you are going?" Inquired Hux.
Mavka stopped, ignoring his question as her eyes widen in the far distance. She rushed towards a room that had been kept open; dark and submerged with the crimson lights. But out in open she quickly saw a figure in the corner of her eye hindering by the end of the corridor. Hux decided to follow her at a moderate speed but was pulled by the arm as she hauled him into what appeared to be the control center room.
She shoved him into the room as quickly as possible as a blasting shot nearly thrash their bodies. Mavka instantly shut the blaster door and took a sharp exhale.
Now realizing where they were Mavka began examining the room.
"What was THAT?!" Hux emits with the anguish of the harsh and unexpected shift. Mavka finally notices the General on the floor, which resulted from her shoving him into the room. She slowly reaches down, extending her hand for him. He finds it insulting and swats her hand away, getting off the floor by himself.
"I hope it was worth jostling me across the room!"
Mavka shushes him as she deliberately eyes the command panel.
"Do not silence me!"
Mavka groans in annoyance and turns to face Hux. She tries to put on a sincere smile, but she feels irritated by his constant staggering behavior.
"General, sir... I only ask you. Cease with... little chatter." The face she makes gives him a more provoking stance. Mavka says what has to say and proceeds her way onto the controls. There are several cameras placed above the panel and could see a good amount of stormtroopers in most areas, although most of them were departing, fighting, and dying at the hands of these aggressive droids. Then suddenly, an unusual group appears on the screen combating alongside the droids.
General Hux leans in to see what was happening on the screens and raises a brow.
"What is the meaning of this?! A raid?"
They looked closely, watching the scene unravel before their very eyes.
"I would not have expected the Resistance carelessly invading a First Order station."
"It is no Resistance. They are pirates." She replied.
General Hux turns to her. "What? Pirates?" His confusion increases greatly. "How pathetic."
Mavka shifts her focus on the command controls and tries to find a way to contact the Star Destroyer or at least anyone far out in space.
"Why would a little, trifling band of pirates invade this station? Are they not aware of whom they are meddling?" Mavka sighs as she tries to focus on the keys on the control panel. General Hux notices her busy nature and tries to make sense of what she is doing.
"See if you can contact First Order command." He says.
"Ok. Sending distress call..." Mavka responses. A ringing sonance comes through the system and perhaps all they could do is wait as chaos erupts.
"Now what? We wait as this disorder goes on?" He says.
"Yes." Mavka approaches an empty wall, leaning against it as she sits on the floor. Now all she could think to herself is how exhausting this day has been. Her emotions were all over the place, the station is overrun with aggressive droids and apparent pirates. Worse of all; a General who chewed off her ear. She closed her eyes as time went on, she could sense that Hux was growing agitated and impatient. This wasn't something he should be caught with.
Mavka opens her eyes and glances at Hux. The General was looking at the screens where the pirate raid was being fought with uncommon valor.
"I know you are... tempered with me." She began, Hux sighed heavily.
"Not at this moment. Of course, I am tempered at you! If only I could blame you for all this commotion. But I only impute Pyre for this." Mavka stayed silent to his admonish as the two shared a soundless reflection upon each other.
"I never meant-" Mavka spoke but was stopped by a noticeable static sound coming from the comlink.
General Hux rushed to the command panel intrigued to get a word out.
"This is - Command-"
Mavka slowly stood from the ground as she listened to the system.
Hux held the communication button intensely as he spoke, "This is General Hux! I acquire immediate assistance on the Titan Station!"
"-What is your- situation?"
General Hux rose a brow but continued, "The Station has been ravaged by b-by- pirates! Droids have been hijacked and I need immediate assistance!" He let the call span but of course, he was impatient and intrigued to leave this place.
"Hello? Are you there, command?" The communications blanked out as static followed afterward.
"Command!" Yelled General Hux.
"—We hear — General. We are sending immediate —" Then finally, the communication between them had gone static and empty. It was a definite end for now. Yet, General Hux wasn't entirely sure if his word got out properly and clearly. The only thing he could do is wait.
"Do they come now?" Mavka asked.
"They are, I'm sure of it." Said, General Hux. Mavka could tell that he was already agitated by their situation, but Mavka could only think of their next move.
Suddenly the blaster door abrupted with a large noise as if something or someone was trying to break in. They both reacted in concern as they faced the door with uncertainty.
"What is that?" Questioned Hux. The fire in his eyes is no longer lit as they cower to a more searing fear.
Mavka was positive that it was a danger outside the door but she didn't entirely know. It was best to remain cautious. Mavka's eyes rolled around the room, spotted a ventilation hatch on the bottom, and approached the vent with ready hands, pulling it open.
"What are you doing?" Asked the General. Mavka pointed at the vent, "We escape here." she said. General Hux looked displeased and quite repelled by the idea as if he was too distinguished and mighty for this concept. "You expect me to crawl through the ventilation?!"
"Die or stay. I only help, General." Her cold tone was triggering to him, his eye twitched to her response, he heavily grunted and pushed Mavka aside as he insisted he go through first. Hux hurriedly crawled through the vent but Mavka was slightly concerned if he knew where to go, but wherever was better than being stuck in that room. The vents of course were dusty and filthy but it wasn't the issue as Hux was met with another shuttered vent soon to be opened. He kicked the vent with an attempted heave but failed to avail, yet Mavka slipped aside him, pulling the vent open.
Finally, they both traveled out of the ventilation, finally out of the godforsaken room but now, they stood in a desolate hallway where there were a few bodies of the stormtroopers spread against the bare path.
They stood in a desolate hallway where there were a few bodies of the stormtroopers laid against the bare pathway. Hux cursed under his breath, his eyes appalled by the bloodbath of the fueling station. Mavka has seen death before and maybe Hux hadn't seen so much of it up close, not in his ivory tower. She brushed the thought off as she began inspecting the bodies.
Quickly, Mavka seized a blaster from the bodies as her confidence grew now that she possessed a weapon.
Mavka looked over to General Hux, "I will protect you until help comes."
Hux scoffed, "You seem confident." Mavka shrugged, "I have been told so." The two of them began to walk down the deserted hallway where nothing stirred. The station was deserted save for the dead soldiers. Out of nowhere, one of the hacked droids appeared into view, its blaster aimed directly at them. Quickly, Mavka pushed General Hux out of the way where she barely evaded the blast. She shot the droid, silencing its whirring, chattering servo motor. The droid's head exploded, sending its optics, wiring, and sensors toppling over the side.
Shortly after, she winced in discomfort slowly realizing she had been shot in her clavicle. It all happened so rapidly but she succeeded in insulating him. General Hux kept silent, glimpsing to see her injured from the unexpected attack. He said nothing but she could tell his mind was racing.
Suddenly, the station shook as a huge explosion thundered from deep in the heart of the station blowing a hole in the very core. "We must move!" Mavka exclaimed, grabbing the General from the floor, escorting him to the next available lift. It was the only way to escape the inevitable. "Move, Move!" The door to the lift slid open and they both entered. The lift began descending. Mavka had to catch her breath, it was the most distress she has been in and it was hard enough having to protect the General but that was nothing compared to the pain in her shoulder. Still, she knew she had to keep moving.
The lift reached the bottom and Mavka led the General out. The ground floor was a lot more vacant than the other floor, immediately they took behind cover as blasts were passing through the halls like acid rain. It didn't feel like there was an end to this violence and all they could do was sit in cover until the droids moved to their current location Mavka attempted to shoot back at the droids but there were too many of them, including a group of pirates behind them, manifesting this whole chaos. All she could do was watch as the droid army swept through this section of the station. "Mavka! I don't suppose you have a plan to escape this- madness?!" Hux exclaimed in tension.
Mavka looked up from her position of cover. She shrugged, "We can only wait!" Then suddenly, a harsh vibration ran through the station. The blasts ceased fire and the sounds of heavy metal fell against the floors It was a curious occurrence that made Mavka peek around the corner until she saw a group of stormtroopers raining their blasters on the droids and pirates. For once, she felt joy at the sight of them.
She turned to face General Hux and said, "We are safe. Assistance here."
The stormtroopers moved to a position just beyond the corner of the room where Mavka and Hux were hiding. They exchanged a few words, then one of them waved the others over. Captain Phasma lead the group and with ease approached the two survivors, finally, General Hux was returning to ease state.
"General Hux, good to see you. We've apprehended the invading scum and deactivated the damaged droids." Said Captain Phasma General Hux looked at Mavka who had mixed feelings at the moment, "I wouldn't have survived these tormenting hours if it weren't for Ein." He then detected her bleeding clavicle, putting pressure on it this whole time.
Captain Phasma took a glance at her as well, "Well then, I'll have my troopers assess this station." Off in the distance came running Commander Pyre, the one in gold approached them in weariness but kept his posture as proper as ever.
General Hux had outrage in his face and confronted the Commander, "Commander Pyre! Where have you been? I've been in the crossfire of this turmoil. If it weren't for my frivolous assistant. I would have not been breathing!" Commander Pyre was a bit stunned at the altercation, "My apologies, General, but I had to ensure the safety of the main force."
General Hux groaned loudly then exhaled, "We'll talk about this later! Right now, I need to remove myself from this station. Let's go." He gestured to Captain Phasma and soon, Mavka followed them to the main hangar. The three moved to a large transport shuttle alongside stormtroopers, finally leaving the Titan station.