AN: Hey guys! Hope you had a good day. We reached the 4,000 view mark, yay! Thanks guys! And we're almost at chapter 30, it literally feels like I wrote the first chapter yesterday.
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SaintsFan1- I'm glad you liked how Rey handled that situation, it was definitely entertaining to say the least. She's definitely strong with the force, Kylo's a pretty good teacher, plus it helps that she's a Kenobi. I think after all those years Leia's been able to pick up things like that. She's upset that Kylo won't be coming back to her, but on the other hand she's happy that he at least cares about somebody. Well you'll find out what happens in the interrogation right now. Thanks for the luck on the tennis tryouts! The first day wasn't as bad as previous ones, but I still managed to get nauseous while running laps. (But that's never going to change. It happens every year.) I've still got the rest of this week to go, and because I'm already on varsity there's another week to determine my position. Yay. :( (Hopefully I get bumped up from second doubles to first doubles.) Thanks again for the review!
C.Z.B.- I'm glad that you enjoyed Rey's entertainment! I definitely laughed at writing that part, so I'm glad it made you laugh as well. Yes, never mess with Rey, especially if she's bored and wants to have some form of fun. And that second part is true as well. :D Well things might take an unexpected turn in this chapter. You'll just have to read and find out. (But it's a good thing. Hope I didn't make you nervous by saying that.) Yup Rey finally admitted that she loves him, that's just going to make their reunion all the better. Thanks again for the review!
SpeedForce 1229- Yeah her power in the force is growing the more times she uses it. And she didn't even get to start her Dark Side training yet, that's just from what she knows. And it's quite impressive. You'll find out what happens in the interrogation now, so you won't have to wait much longer. I've always wondered how the yellow eyed thing happens. Does Snoke have yellow eyes? I couldn't really tell, and Kylo obviously doesn't. Now I'm starting to think about how that works. Anyway, thanks again for the review!
Again sorry for this chapter being short. It's so annoying having to write on my ipod. Anyway, let's get started.
Chapter 28
Rey had been impatiently waiting all morning for the interrogation to begin. She was starting to think that Leia was just messing with her, until the door opened.
There were two Resistance soldiers approaching her. They released her from the bed and she slowly stood up. Her abdomen still hurt slightly, but it healed enough to where she could walk on her own.
They began to grab her arms when she shook them away. "Not so fast. If you don't mind I'm going to use the refresher before we depart." They began to protest but she gave them a death glare and they changed their minds.
She didn't take long, she wanted to get this ordeal over with. She let the soldiers lead her to an interrogation room. As they entered there was a table with two chairs on either side.
She sat in the chair farthest from the door. They stood at either side of her and didn't make a move to restrain her. "What no restraints?" They seemed to ignore her. "Yeesh, just trying to relieve the tension."
She crossed her arms as she impatiently waited for her interrogator. After about 5 minutes the door finally opened. There was a man in the doorway that was Resistance but she didn't recognize him. "Well it's about time you showed up."
"I didn't assume that you'd care."
"Yeah well I want to get this over with." He sat down across from her, put his bag on the floor and looked her over.
"Oh this won't take long. I'll get all the information that you know about the Order faster than you'd expect."
"Would you consider yourself the best interrogator in the Resistance?"
"Oh I am. Although I have to warn you, if you don't comply I'll be forced to use my more brutal methods."
"Don't make me laugh. Nothing can be worse than getting beat up by General Hux. Although he was taking orders from Snoke, but still it was pretty brutal. So you can threaten all you want but you don't scare me. Besides it's you who should be afraid of me."
"I'll be sure to keep that in mind. Let's get started shall we."
"Fire away. I'm not telling you anything."
"We'll see." She watched as he pulled a tablet from his bag and turned it on. No doubt looking over a list of questions. When he finally picked one he turned to her and began to ask it. "So, what can you tell me about the Order's new weapon?"
"Nothing."
"You mean you know nothing or you're not saying."
"Of course I know, I saw it being used. But I'm not telling you anything."
"Are there more?"
"Not saying that either. You're going to have to try better than that if you want to get answers out of me."
"Fine." He reached into his bag and pulled out a taser that was fashioned like a collar. "This is my least brutal device. It's a remote controlled taser that allows me to shock you and raise the intensity level." He motioned for the soldiers to hold her down as he began to strap it to her neck.
"Get off of me." He went back to his seat and the guards released their hold on her. Rey tried to get it off of her neck, but it was no use.
"Sorry, but I have the remote that unlocks it. Now I'll repeat my question, what can you tell me about the weapon?"
"I'm not telling you anything."
"Wrong answer." He pressed a button on the remote and Rey could feel the shock in her neck. It wasn't bad, but it did hurt. "Every wrong answer results in a higher shock level. So keep that in mind."
"Whatever, I've felt worse. Try being accidentally electrocuted while scavenging as a child. Not fun."
"Oh really? You seem to want to talk about yourself. What's your position in the Order?"
"I'm the apprentice of Kylo Ren and am a commanding officer of my own squadron of stormtroopers. I don't think that has any relevance to your interrogation."
"Maybe not. But can you describe the weapon in your own words?"
"It's a gun."
"That's it?"
"Is there something else that you want?"
"What does it do? What kind of gun is it?"
"I'm not saying."
"Fine." He pressed the button again and Rey could feel the shock intensify. "You're quite resilient, most people would grimace at that."
"Well I'm not most people."
"Indeed. Where is the First Order currently located?"
"How the hell would I know? You need to be more specific there."
"Where's Snoke?" Rey began to laugh.
"Haha, you've got to be kidding. I've only seen him on a hologram, I don't know where he is. Only Kylo and Hux know that."
"Very well. What can you tell us about their plans?"
"Not saying." He pressed the button again and she felt as if the shock was increased higher than one level. She managed not to scream, but she began to grimace. When it was done she turned to the man. "That seemed to be higher than before, much higher."
"Well I'm growing impatient. Let me ask again. What are they planning? They blew up our suppliers."
"Well duh. They attacked us, of course we eliminated them. You guys aren't that smart are you?"
"Excuse me?"
"I would think that our reaction would be obvious. How could you not see that coming? You're so naive."
"I highly disagree. And because of that comment I'm raising the shock level." When he finished the settings he pushed the button and Rey began to growl at the pain. It wasn't enough to cause her to scream, but she was beginning to get pissed off.
"Are you through yet?"
"Yes. Now, tell me where the Finalizer is."
"Never."
"Tell me!"
"No!" He raised the shock level again to the point where it was just 10 levels away from being maxed out. He pushed the button and this time Rey did scream. She had to grip the edge of the table to stop herself from falling over.
"Tell me where the Finalizer is and where Kylo Ren is."
"No. You'll have to kill me to find that out."
"Very well. If you won't cooperate I'll have to use something else." As he bent down to retrieve something from his bag she took her chance and stood up. The soldiers at her sides pushed her back down, but she elbowed the one on the right in the gut and he immediately let go.
She then grabbed the other's arm on her shoulder and flipped him onto the table. She turned to the other soldier and punched him in the face so hard that he slammed into the wall. The man heard the commotion and had a blaster pulled at her. "Don't move."
An evil smirk began to spread onto her face. "Well I'd love to stay and chat, but I've got a ship to steal. So I'd appreciate it if you'd get out of my way."
"No."
"Your death." She extended her hand and before he could pull the trigger she began to force choke him. He immediately dropped the blaster and began to grab at the non-existent hands at his throat. "I told you you should be scared of me. Oh well." She heard the satisfying crack of his neck being broken and began to walk out the door.
Before she left the room she stopped herself. She almost forgot about the collar around her neck. She took the remote and pressed the button that released the collar from her neck. And sure enough she heard it drop to the floor. She took the blaster as well, she might need it considering that she didn't know where her lightsaber was.
She peeked her head out the doorway and saw that there was nobody in the halls. So she made a break for it, while staying close to the shadows so as not to be spotted. She was glad that she wasn't forced to change her black clothes, it helped to blend her into her surroundings.
As she snuck through the halls she heard a siren blare. "Crap, guess they realised I was gone." She decided to forget the secrecy and made a break for the hangar. Soon enough she could hear footsteps echoing up ahead, the halls were to narrow to produce any kind of echo. It looked like she was heading in the right direction.
Sure enough she saw a bunch of ships, both Resistance and not, she saw the one that Finn used to bring her here and made a break for it. But her lucky streak was over seeing as a blaster shot almost hit her arm if she hadn't moved out of the way.
Pretty soon there was blaster fire coming from several directions and she used the force to aim them off course and have them hit enemies on the opposite side. She did use her blaster, but it wasn't of much help to her while running.
She eventually made it to the ship but out of nowhere Luke stepped in front of her. "Oh god!" Rey had to stop herself before running into him. The blaster fire had stopped, nobody wanted to hit the legendary Jedi. "Luke what are you doing?"
"I think the better question is what are you doing?"
"What does it look like! I'm getting out of here."
"Rey you don't know where the Order is."
"Yes I do. Now if you don't mind I need to leave."
"I'm sorry Rey but I can't let you do that. We need to get the information that you know about the Order."
"Well too bad, I'm leaving." She used the force to violently push Luke to the side so that she could board the ship. She hadn't meant to do it that hard, it sent him flying, but she couldn't think about that right now. She immediately started up the ship, put up the shields, and left the hangar. There was fire coming from what looked to be guns placed outside of the base, but she was able to easily avoid the blasts.
It wasn't long before she left the planet. Before making the jump to lightspeed she quickly found the ship's last lightspeed coordinates, and she saved it so she could give it to Hux. Now that they knew where the Resistance was, it was only a matter of time before their destruction.
She immediately made the jump to lightspeed and she couldn't contain her excitement of finally being able to get back home.
Austin and the other groups had left yesterday in search of Esteron and so far things weren't looking too good. Each group went to the charted planets and asked for any information about a planet called Esteron.
Other teams were able to find other uncharted planets, but because most of them were uninhabited they were getting nowhere. As Austin contacted Hux, he didn't sound too happy. "How can you not find anything on Esteron?!"
"Sir, with all do respect, the uncharted planets we did find are mostly baron. There's only been 5 with actual people on it. And even they haven't been extremely helpful. It's taking longer than we expected."
"Well we have to keep searching. If we wait any longer Ren's going to have a fit. And I just had the bridge fixed after Rey's little outburst. Find her."
"Yes sir." He ended the transmission and turned to RX and BL. "Looks like we have to keep looking guys. Where was the next uncharted planet that we were given?"
BL looked at the tablet and read off the coordinates. They made the jump and soon enough they had the planet in their sights. Before they had a chance to enter the planet's surface a ship suddenly came out of lightspeed. "That ship looks familiar."
Austin tried to get a closer look and sure enough it was the ship that Rey was taken away on. He instructed the bounty hunter to make contact and sure enough Rey's voice could be heard. "Who are you and what do you want?"
"Rey it's me, Commander Austin." RX and BL looked at him with unbelief on their faces. He turned to them when he felt their stares on his back. "What? It's to make calling my name in battle easier. If you want you can ask her for you own names, but now's not the time."
"Austin? What are you doing out here?"
"Looking for you of course. How'd you get here?"
"I escaped during my interrogation. Something happened to the hyperdrive. I think it was damaged by blaster fire somehow."
"Wait, then you know where Esteron is."
"Yeah. I saved the coordinates from the last lightspeed jump this ship made before I made my jump. I have it's location."
"This is perfect Rey! Do you think that you'll be able to fix the hyperdrive?"
"Yeah, I can make the repair easily. It'll take a little bit though."
"That's fine, I have to alert the other search groups that we found you and to meet us here. Then we can all go home."
"Great. I'll get to work."
"Good." The transmission ended and Austin contacted all eight scouting groups immediately and gave them their coordinates. After waiting for several minutes, the remaining groups left hyperspace and entered the system. They waited for about 10 minutes when Austin suddenly heard Rey's voice again.
"I couldn't repair it fully but it's enough to get me to the Finalizer. Is everyone here?"
"Yup. Set your coordinates for Subterrel and we can all go home."
"Good. Lead the way Commander." Austin instructed the bounty hunter to make the jump to lightspeed and it wasn't long before he could feel the ship lunge at the sudden movement.
All of the other ships followed suit and it would only be a matter of time before they made their way home. Austin immediately contacted Hux to tell him the good news. "What is it Commander?"
"Sir, we found her."
"You found Esteron?"
"No, Rey was able to escape and she was having a problem with the ship's hyperdrive. So she left lightspeed and entered the system that I was in. She was able to save the coordinates of Esteron from the last lightspeed jump before she left."
"Excellent. And you have her?"
"Yes, she's following us home. We should arrive any minute."
"Excellent." Hux ended the transmission and Austin could only imagine how Rey must be feeling.
As Rey put the ship on autopilot she couldn't contain her excitement. She was finally going back home. Hearing Austin's voice was a big relief, she missed the Commander a great deal, he was definitely loyal. She also couldn't wait to see her other friends, she had a feeling that they were the one's out searching for her. Judging by how Austin was talking to someone else on his ship.
She hoped that not much had happened while she was gone. Hopefully Kylo wouldn't be punished for losing her again, she didn't want to see him in any pain. Unless Snoke somehow didn't find out about it, which she doubted.
Suddenly the ship lunged forward as it left lightspeed and Rey had to grab hold of the chair next to her to keep steady. She cursed at herself for not paying closer attention. She took the ship off autopilot and followed the ships into the hangar.
As she prepped for landing she took in her surroundings. She was finally home, she was right back where she belonged. She made a note to herself to kill Finn the next chance she got. She could care less about him at this point.
But that wasn't what her thoughts were focused on. She couldn't wait a minute longer to see Kylo's face.
She landed the ship and went to greet her friends. Her hunch was right about them being the ones to find her. She greeted every last trooper and officer in her sights. She really did miss them. As they dispersed LR, BT, RX, BL, and Austin stayed behind a little longer. "I can't thank you guys enough for coming to find me. You didn't have to." LR answered her.
"Are you kidding? You're one of us Rey, of course we'd come for you." RX jumped in.
"That and we were ordered by your master." The group laughed.
"Thanks guys. And just know that I'd do the same for you. By the way you guys look really good in civilian clothes." BT answered her.
"Really? I think this jacket's too big." BL inspected it.
"Nah, I think it's because your too small."
"Oh very funny." The group laughed once more and RX spoke.
"Oh Rey, can you give us a nickname like you did with Commander Austin here."
"Yeah sure. What do you guys want to be called?"
"I don't know. You choose."
"Alright. Let's see what I've got to work with. LR you're name could be Larry." He looked at her funny.
"Larry?"
"You got something else with the letters L and R in them?"
"Yeah no. I kind of like it though."
"Good. BT you can be Bandit." He took the name in.
"Bandit. How'd you come up with that?"
"Well you're wearing a bandana around your neck for one. And two I saw you sneak into the cafeteria after hours several times." The group turned to look at him.
"What? I only sneak food out when I'm really hungry and can't sleep. I only did it like 4 times."
"See, the name fits you."
"Yeah I guess it does."
"RX, you can be Rex."
"I like it."
"And BL you can be Blake."
"Nice."
"There are you guys happy now? But this is just for us only, nobody else. Got it?" The group nodded their heads in understanding. "Good." Suddenly the footsteps of General Hux could be heard and the troopers decided to take their leave. As they began to walk away they all called back to her.
"See ya later Rey!" the group left and Rey waited for Hux to approach her. He seemed to be more anxious than normal.
AN: Hope you guys liked it. I know that it probably seems weird that I named RX Rex. I couldn't really think of another name that had those letters in it, and every time I did it just sounded too weird. Same thing with Larry. (Apparently I can't think of cool names. Bandit was almost Bart, so yeah.)
Feel free to leave a review and let me know what you think. Again sorry for it being short.
I'll see you all again in the next chapter. Bye!