Alright, I managed to get this one out sooner than I expected, which is a good sign for me. It looks like I finally got back in the writing groove. I don't really have much to say this time around, so let's just cut to the chase.

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TheKyloFanatic- Thank you for understanding on why I didn't update for a while, it really means a lot. So glad to hear that the last one was worth the wait and I'm happy that you enjoyed it. Glad you liked the battle and Rey being in charge, she definitely kicked butt out there lol. Let's hope that help does arrive, and you won't have to wait much longer for her to defend Kylo. Thanks so much for the review, hope you enjoy this next chapter!

Well, that's about it. I've got nothing else to add, so let's get back to it.

Chapter 39

It seemed as if everyone wanted to get a piece of the fallen Knight of Ren, every single one of them wanting to be the one to finish him off. But Rey wouldn't have it, she would go to great lengths to protect her master and that's just what she did. It was practically an ambush, there were dozens of rebels on all sides of her, trying to box her in. They didn't hesitate in firing on her, although they weren't that good with blasters, there were so many of them that it was hard to keep up. She twirled her lightsaber as fast as she could, trying to protect herself from the shots coming at her from all angles, but all of it would be worthless if she didn't move away from Kylo.

As much as she hated to do it, she had no choice. She could only do so much damage from standing in one place. Just as she was beginning to move away from him she noticed that one of the rebels was pointing his blaster downwards, her eyes widened when she saw that the blaster was aiming at Kylo's head. Anger completely consumed her and she lunged at the rebel, cutting him right in half, along with several other cuts for good measure.

Once she had enough she saw that others were starting to do the same as him and were trying to kill Kylo while she was distracted. Before they could pull the trigger, she stretched out her hand and pushed all of them back with the force. As she made her way over to them to finish them off she killed anyone else who dared to try and kill her or her master. She used the force, she sliced, she used her bare hands, and any other method that she could think of to kill these rebels.

The fight felt like it would never end, the rebels just kept coming and there was no sign of them stopping. Rey felt like she was going to collapse from exhaustion, but her anger and love for her master made the fatigue go away. She didn't even notice that the medic Austin sent was coming towards them until she killed the victim in front of her. It was then that she came out of her daze and took a look around her. By the looks of it, the rebel she had just killed was the last of the ones trying to get to Kylo, either the rest died or they ran away from fright.

A small smirk began to form on her lips, there were so many bodies surrounding her, far too many to count, and she couldn't believe that she had done this. Never had she thought that she would've been capable of something like this by herself, she felt so proud of herself, and she knew that if Kylo had seen this that he would be as well. As she emerged from her thoughts she saw the medic making his way through the bodies towards her, the white armored trooper carefully trying not to step on any body parts.

When he finally made his way over to her he stood at attention. "At ease trooper. I take it that you're the medic that my second in command sent?" Rey didn't like not using Austin's name, but she didn't want word to spread that she had given her troopers names, it could lead to all of them getting into trouble.

"Yes sir. I'm JK-9967, I'm usually assigned to your squad when in battle sir. I apologize for not making your acquaintance earlier, but I was not needed before now." Rey couldn't help but smile at the trooper, he was very polite, which wasn't something that one thought of when thinking of a stormtrooper.

"That's quite alright JK. I'm glad to hear that you've worked with my men before, which also means that I have to do something later before I lose track of you."

"I don't think I quite understand what you're implying."

"You will later. In the meantime you need to get to work."

"Right. Let me see Ren." She led him to Kylo and he knelt down beside him. He slowly unwrapped the makeshift bandage around his chest, careful not to cause any more harm to him. As he looked at the wound Rey looked over his shoulder and let out a small gasp. It somehow looked worse than before.

"Oh my gosh. It wasn't that bad before, I must've wrapped it wrong or not put enough pressure on it."

"No, that's not it. You wrapped it very well Commander and there was indeed some pressure applied. It appears as if the wound is much worse than I thought."

"How much worse?"

"I can't tell through his clothing, but we need to get him back on the Finalizer as soon as possible."

"It's that bad?"

"I'm afraid so."

"Ugh, this can't be happening. What am I supposed to tell Snoke?"

"That has to wait until I can do a full diagnostic on him when we get back. I highly advise you wait on telling Snoke until you have all the facts." Rey sighed and bowed her head, he was right. Snoke was most likely going to question her and she didn't want to look like an idiot in front of him.

"You're right JK. But what am I supposed to do until then?"

"For starters, you can finish this battle." Rey slapped herself across the face, how could she be so stupid as to not think of that first.

"Right, I knew that. I guess I just got distracted. You didn't happen to see how we were doing by any chance did you? I was a little preoccupied."

"By the looks of it there's only a handful left, they should be pretty easy to finish off. Oh I almost forgot." JK took off his backpack and removed his medical supplies to reveal the grenades that Austin and the rest of the men had taken earlier. "I was told to give you these."

"Thank you JK, this will make things much easier." She took the backpack from him and put it on her shoulders. "You sure you don't need the pack?"

"I'm sure. I don't have much supplies left, they'll be easy to put into my belt. I've been patching up so many troopers that I'm lucky to have this many supplies as it is."

"Aren't there other medics around doing the same?"

"Yeah, but still, there's a lot of wounded." Rey winced at his words, she didn't like the sound of so many men being injured, she could only imagine how many of them were dead.

"Of course. Patch him up as best you can. There isn't much you can do with his clothing is there?"

"Unfortunately no. The best I can do is wrap him and clean the wound as much as possible through the fabric. It wouldn't be wise to rip his clothing apart right now since we'll be no doubt leaving soon."

"That's what I thought. Just do the best you can and bring him back to his ship, I'll finish up here." He nodded his head and Rey began to head off in the direction of the rest of the troops when his voice stopped her.

"Commander!"

"Yeah?"

"I'll take good care of him, I promise." She had a feeling that he was smiling at her under that helmet, and she couldn't help but to smile back at him.

"Thank you." With one last look she ran off to rejoin the battle taking place. The rest of the troopers weren't that far ahead of her, and JK had been right. There weren't that many rebels left and the First Order vastly outnumbered them. One of the troopers had noticed her coming towards them and called out to her.

"Commander! Over here!" He waved her over and she quickly made her way towards him.

"Glad to see that this is starting to wrap up."

"It'll go much faster now that you're here Commander."

"Thank you trooper, I sure hope so. Who's the highest ranking officer here?"

"That would actually be me sir."

"Really? What happened to everyone else?"

"They're out in front of the rest of the troops. I just thought it would be easier for you to give the orders through me since I'm not currently out front."

"Good point. Alright then, let's say we get started finishing them off. I've got a pack full of grenades, I want them distributed as fast as possible. I'm going to try and make my way to the front and box the remaining rebels in so that we can kill all of them at the same time."

"Sounds good sir. Should I notify everyone through the comms?"

"Yes, and make sure that everyone is behind me. When I give the order I want everyone to get cover and throw the grenades at the rebels. Is that understood?"

"Perfectly sir."

"Good." She removed the backpack and gave it to the trooper in front of her. "Now go and distribute these out." The trooper nodded his head and quickly ran off to distribute the grenades. Rey wasted no time in trying to get to the front where the rebels were, but there were so many troopers in front of her that it was becoming difficult to get through.

After several minutes of trying to maneuver herself, she realised that she was barely covering any ground. She came to the conclusion that she would have to jump over the crowd, how she would do that she had no idea. Kylo once told her that it was possible to use the force to make you jump to extreme heights. He promised her that he would teach her at some point, but it would have to wait until they were on a planet's surface, considering that it was impossible to do that within the Finalizer.

Rey was really starting to regret not having that lesson earlier, but now was a good place to start learning as any. Rey closed her eyes and focused her breathing, trying to figure out the best possible way to use the force. She considered aiming it towards her legs or the ground, but she wouldn't know if that would be a surefire way to get her to jump into the air. Then she remembered that the force was not only around her, but inside her as well. Which led to the conclusion that if it was inside her, then she could focus the force inside her to push her up when she jumped. And if that didn't work, there was always the first option.

She took a deep breath and blocked out everything else around her as she focused the force inside her down to her legs. When she felt that it was in a good position and she had enough to push her off the ground she bent her knees and pushed off of the ground as hard as she could. She could feel herself go flying into the air and she opened her eyes, she was almost as high up as the nearest building, and it looked to be about 10 or 15 stories tall. She also noticed that she was almost to the front of everyone and she began to tilt herself so she could land on the ground.

As she came closer and closer to the ground, she extended the force outwards to slow her down and cushion the landing. As she made contact she bent her knees and did a slight roll, it wasn't the perfect landing, but she could practice that. As she came to a stop she had one leg stretched on the ground with the tip of her foot firmly on the ground, her other leg bent so her foot was flat on the ground, and her hand firmly on the ground to support the rest of her body. As she lifted her head she saw that the rebels in front of her had stopped shooting and were staring at her, she also noticed that the rest of the troopers had stopped firing as well. Not bad for an entrance. Kylo will certainly be pleased with this.

With her free hand she grabbed her lightsaber off her belt and ignited it as she stood. Before she could catch her breath the rebels started to shoot at her and the troops, she defended them as best she could, the fatigue starting to catch up with her. As she fought she managed to deflect several shots back at them and she could see several of them begin to fall, but she was still focused on boxing them in. There were large pieces of fallen debris from when she blew up the tank and she figured that they would do nicely in making a cage for them.

She focused on the force and lifted one of the pieces behind the rebels, several of them got distracted at the flying piece of metal and tried to get away from it as it landed behind them. Rey did the same with two other large pieces and put them on the sides before they could get the chance to run off. It was becoming much easier to lift heavy objects and she didn't need to put so much effort into the act as before.

She wanted the rebels as far into the cage as possible, so she twirled her lightsaber very close to them to get them to back up into each other. When she felt that they were ready to be closed off she lifted the last piece of debris and shut them all in. She deactivated her saber and began to run for cover as she shouted her orders into her comm. "Everyone throw the grenades into the cage now!"

The troopers wasted no time in executing the order and within seconds the inside of the cage blew up, along with everything else surrounding it. When the explosions died down Rey stood up from her cover and took in her surroundings, there was absolutely no way that the rebels would have survived that explosion, but just in case she reached out through the force to see if they were still alive. A smile spread across her face when she couldn't feel them at all through the force, the battle was over, and the First Order had won.

As she approached the men she saw that all of them were realizing the same thing and had begun to celebrate amongst themselves. As she drew near they noticed her and stopped celebrating so they could stand at attention. "No need for that troopers. You boys deserve to celebrate." She saw the men relax and one of the officers came to approach her.

"Shall I have the men help with the wounded Commander?"

"That would be greatly appreciated. Have them do what they can and prepare for departure when they're finished. We'll be leaving shortly."

"With all do respect sir, you don't have to stay for the cleanup. You're allowed to leave before the rest of us."

"That's okay. I don't want to leave until I know that everyone is safe aboard their ships."

"Even the dead sir?" Rey stopped herself before speaking. Were they supposed to bring the dead back to the Finalizer? Or did they normally get left on the battlefield? She shook her head and decided that no man should get left behind, even if they were no longer living.

"Especially the dead. Reserve a ship for them and for the wounded. I don't want everybody crammed into one place. If there isn't enough room, make room. I want a full count of the wounded and dead before we leave."

"Yes sir. Is there anything else?"

"No, that's all. I'll see all of you back at the ships." The trooper nodded his head in understanding and left to rejoin the rest of the men. Rey sighed and walked away back towards the ships, she was exhausted and she knew that she'd fall asleep immediately once she got back to her room. It was only now that her stomach started to growl and she only started to realize how hungry she was. How long were they out here for? It felt like hours, and it probably was judging by the growing pain of having an empty stomach. Luckily all of those years on Jakku taught her to go for days without food, she could handle a couple more hours.

As she passed through the battlefield she saw that quite a few of the injured and dead have been removed, but there were still large amounts of white masses out there waiting to be taken back to the ships. She tried not to think about how much pain they'd be in, it only reminded her that this battle came with a cost, as do so many others.

As she looked around she was scanning for the black mass that was her master, but she knew that JK must've taken him back to his ship when she couldn't find a single trace of him. Her hand automatically went down to her hip and touched the hilt of his lightsaber, the only physical thing she had of him right now.

She let her thoughts wander and she wasn't even paying attention to where she was going until she heard the loud sounds of troopers getting ready for take off. Rey emerged from her thoughts and looked around her, there were men everywhere loading up ships with extra supplies and weapons that weren't needed, and helping the wounded and the dead onto the ships as well.

Before she knew it, Austin was by her side immediately and he had to clear his throat to get her attention. She turned and smiled at him, his helmet was clipped to his belt and you could see how sweat drenched his brown hair was. "Glad to see you're alright Rey."

"Thanks, hopefully the prisoners weren't much trouble."

"No trouble at all. Thanks to you I think they'll be out for several hours."

"That's good. How is everyone?"

"Well, everyone is doing alright. There's a lot of us that aren't wounded or aren't wounded as badly as the others."

"How many wounded?"

"I'm not sure yet, we're still waiting for everyone to be brought in so we can get a full total."

"I understand. Tell me when you've received it."

"I will. From what I hear you managed to finish the rebels off fairly quickly."

"All thanks to you. It wouldn't have gone so fast if you hadn't sent the grenades with JK. Which reminds me, where is he?"

"He's with Kylo in his command shuttle. You already have his name picked out don't you?"

"Yeah, I hope he likes it."

"I have a feeling he will." Rey's smile began to disappear as she stared at the direction of Kylo's command shuttle, worry beginning to show on her face. Austin instantly noticed this change in her. "You want to go check up on him, don't you?"

"Of course I do, he's my master. And, you know." Rey struggled to try and find a good word to describe the two of them, but Austin put his hand up in understanding.

"I know. Why don't you go check up on him, I'll handle things here."

"You're sure? I feel that I still have duties here, I can't just leave."

"Sure you can. This is all just a matter of loading up the ships and accounting for the men, there's not much for you to do down here."

"You're absolutely sure?"

"Yes, I'm sure. Now go." Rey smiled and quickly hugged him, which took him off guard.

"Thanks Austin, I owe you one." She immediately let go and ran off towards Kylo's shuttle, leaving Austin chuckling to himself as he watched her go.

Rey arrived at his shuttle sooner than she wanted to, before she went inside she stopped herself and tried to calm herself down. She was afraid of what she was going to find in there, what if JK couldn't save him and she was too late. She tried to push the thought out of her head, but it wouldn't budge. She decided that standing outside wasn't going to do anything to help, so she took a deep breath and went inside.

For some reason the ramp leading into the ship felt longer than normal and it felt like ages until she climbed to the top. She had to shield her eyes for a second from the sudden lighting adjustment, once her eyes grew accustomed to it, she looked around. Everything was exactly how she left it, but Kylo and JK were nowhere to be seen. One of the troopers noticed her and nodded his head towards the back, telling her where they were. She nodded in understanding and as a way of saying thank you to the trooper before she made her way to the back of the ship.

The first thing that she saw was Kylo's blood-stained tunic completely on the floor and JK's medical supplies everywhere. She only saw Kylo's legs, JK was completely covering the rest of him. All of a sudden Kylo arched his back and his arm hit JK right in the stomach sending him back a little bit. When he got his bearings, JK looked up and saw Rey's shocked face, instead it wasn't looking at him.

Her eyes were completely transfixed on Kylo and the blood that wouldn't stop coming out of his chest. She couldn't tell if he was still unconscious or not, he still had his helmet on, but judging by the fact he wasn't moving, she already knew what the answer was. She couldn't move or speak, her heart was breaking at the sight before her. All she could do was stare at him as the tears began to roll down her cheeks.

Well what do you guys think? I hope you enjoyed it. I'm sorry for it being a little shorter than normal, but I felt that this was a good place to end it.

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Well, I'll see all of you in the next chapter, bye!