Star Wars Episode VII: A Spark of Light

by Zer0the0mega108

The First Order rages war across the Galaxy in the wake of Luke Skywalker's disappearance. The Resistance stands against the Order, even at it's breaking point. A Smuggler and his crew discover a small droid that will lead them in this war of Light and Dark. A boy who has no memories of his past will do anything in his power to protect his family and embrace his Destiny.

4. Chapter IV

Zer0: Okay, now we plug this in here. *Stabs Power cell in port, something explodes* I'm sure it will be fine. Okay, Bio, now you are back at 100%. My totally robotic, non organic, depression filled companion.

Bio: Piss off.

Zer0: Oops, wrong Power Cell.

Bio: There is no power cell, you moron! I'm human! I'm a human male!

Zer0: What? You're a human? You're BioshockerN7, an Author who I collab with on literally everything. Huh, I totally forgot that Author's can collab.

Bio: Seems others did too. *Glares at review*

Zer0: Well, now with that bit done let's continue. Hello everybody, welcome back to the Fanfic story of Star Wars! Oh boy did we have fun with this chapter…...or any chapter at this point.

Bio: Mostly positive reviews...and 'criticisms' that I am honestly confused with.

Zer0: I am very happy that everyone enjoyed them, glad that the world building really got them. And it only gets better.

Bio: Yeah. We've pretty much fully mapped out the layout of the series. Now we just gotta write the rest of it.

Zer0: Still on a yes/no for the third season. And yes, spoilers, we have decided to split this story down to three movies, and a TV series like story. Okay, we went on long enough, to replies.

Hellfire45: Thank you, thank you. Yeah it is going to be fun to introduce her, you might be surprised how. The Force Fire is actually a real thing in Star Wars, it is called Pyrokinesis which is basically you being a Fire Bender, there is no way to sugar coat it. It's pretty cool though.

Drouppi: Well in fairness it was my opinion that he was one of the best in the series. But dude, he is the best in the Sequels.

Bio: Kylo is the worst? That's a strange way to say Holdo.

Zer0: Kylo has the most consistent character arc in the whole trilogy, which isn't saying much since it is still bad. I like the idea of a character that is torn between good and bad…..in the first movie. When it was settled in the second he is finally the bad guy I was like yes, because I do like bad guys. Then he just goes back to good, which is fine, but why? I guess that's why I like our Kylo. Both powerful and driven by his own ideals which you will see in this series but has his own motives other than Snoke's pet. Second to him is Poe and that's not much. But like I said, it is my opinion, but you saying he is the worst to you is your opinion which I respect and can understand. I won't force you to like him and if I can't convince you then oh well. Moving on to Damien it's not that he can't access the Force, he can. He can levitate and move objects (Or people) without difficulty. However, too much strain is what causes the pain, like pulling someone up and holding them while dangling? Yeah kind of hard. He was shot in the leg but adrenaline was already kicked in so it didn't really affect him. Two minutes later he was holding onto Rey, hell you saw how quick he was to regain his strength when he held everyone down so it's not a long time for him to regain his strength. When you're being chased by soldiers trying to kill you are you gonna take a five minute break?

Bio: Violent arse with anger management issues? Well, that comparison is pretty relative and normal to the likes of a Trandoshan. Honestly, when have we ever seen a goody two shoes Trandoshan? Far as I'm aware...never. Cause it just doesn't fit with them. Sure, you might run into some decent members of the species who aren't too sadistic and murderous...but aggression is a natural state of a Trandoshan.

Zer0: Correct, Bio. I will admit the whole thing with Karine was quick, but that was the point. You're not supposed to learn much and we left you wanting for more (Or not, to each their own.). It was meant as a mystery so you wonder what she meant.

Bio: And before you say that we basically poured out the entirety of Arthon's origins...trust me, we've only scratched the surface of what happened to him.

Zer0: However we appreciate your criticism and see your points. I have corrected the way she said it to seem more ominous. And you will see Ahsoka…..just not the way you think. Thank you.

Emoryjmorrill: Thanks.

Bob the kraken: Bio's favorite review.

Bio: Of course Arthon's a mood. Why do you think I enjoy writing him?

Zer0: It gets better. But you will have to wait.

Human dragon: That…..is pretty accurate. It's hard to argue with that, it's both sad and very, very true. But glad you liked it.

SPARTAN-626: It's not that we crave a lot of reviews, it's just me and Bio are so used to a lot of reviews. I know I got a lot on my first chapter of A Devil's Justice, I think like other Author's we enjoy that everyone else enjoys them. We usually, again, get a LOT of them.

Bio: I could count how many times I'd see new reviews for AotG come up in one day alone.

Zer0: Regardless if people like this story that is enough for me. Bio and I are glad you liked the characters, we really work hard to improve them and see how they affect the Disney Canon Universe while adding flares of the Legends and twisting it our way. Episode 9 again was Pretty good, Bio thinks meh, and overall it was better than the Last Jedi.

Bio: You say that like it's an actual competition.

Zer0: It isn't. But it's a win, a very sad one.

edboy4926: The consistent theme of the reviews is great world building, and I am glad everyone enjoys it.

Bio: Given how decent The Mandalorian has been so far, one of the few things I've enjoyed from the Disney Canon, I'd say that the events of the series have occurred in this series timeline. However, the characters there aren't exactly focal points for this series.

Zer0: We can't promise, but we will try. If we can't…..well you will know.

Canadiangunner11: *T-Pose* This is the way, my brudda.

Bio: This is the way.

SaiyatonianSage: Hell yeah! Let's go! We are glad everyone is enjoying each of the new characters and the Disney ones, that's what we want. To answer your question, no this is not Finn's first mission. We don't have a concrete answer (We'll probably insert it somewhere) on how many but enough to get notice and to be a possible Sith Trooper. Yes, the shameless flirting was fun…and that's all it is going to be.

Bio: Poe might be a ladies' man, but Karine isn't looking for a guy like him.

Zer0: Really? I even wrote he was a Magnaguard, it's okay because we all make mistakes.

Bio: Yeah, he's the one that got his leg crushed by the thing High Ground dropped on his buddies...then chopped his head off.

Zer0: Honestly again, Rey is probably the hardest to work with right now, remember when I said Finn would be hard? Yeah I take that back just switch them around. However, her character will be delved much later but we do still try to make her more…...believable. Also, no homo, let's go! Well you're just gonna have to wait for all the Damien stuff to meet its course, and it is gonna be great. The crack is healed, it's more of a scar that is luckily healed because of futuristic medicine. Glad you like Arthon's backstory, play that shit with Anakin's Betrayal theme song, shit gets real. *Sees poll, looks back at Story* Wait a minute...Hmm…...Nah…..XD I kid…...UPDATE BORDERLANDS YOU FU-[REDACTED]

Bio: Moving on from that, yeah, Arthon hasn't had the most...cheery life. If you think someone could walk away from essentially watching nearly your entire species getting wiped out with a happy outlook...that's not how consistent characters work.

Zer0: And that's just the beginning. The answer you seek will not be answered until later on. That is all. ONWARD!

The1whoknox: Han and Chewie will be in, literally in this chapter. We hope you enjoy and thank you so very much.

free man writer: Indeed good sir, got the Midas touch here. Thou is glad to have enjoyed our story.

Bio: Turning crap into gold is our specialty.

Zer0: We hope you enjoy this chapter too.

TaitanoRules555: That is a great question, and a bad answer from us: No. Sadly, there is a reason for it.

Bio: We fucking suck at drawing.

Zer0: There you go. We would love too, but again we have to have at least a good painting hand...and I don't have that. We apologize if this was not the answer you wanted but it is the truth. We would be Bob Ross in the Anti-Universe…..so like shit basically.

Bio: The best I can draw is a bunch of stick figures. That's about it.

SupremeSongLeader: 1st Chapter: HOW DAR-Oh, nevermind.

Bio: Okay?

Zer0: Well I can say you are a very passionate person and I love that (No homo). Huh so you've been around since my first SW story? It's been awhile so I don't remember every fan (Sorry). A Clone Wars story? Possibly, most likely my own but we will see. I have the first season of Resistance (Not proud of it) because I want to see how bad (And what materials we could possibly use from it).

2nd Review: XD, thank you, thank you. I can see you are not a fan of Disney, and I cannot blame you. Hell yeah, sweet Anime. Well Rey has a much…..bigger bust I want to say, not overly big but sure. I can't answer that question but something like that will happen. I hope you enjoy this story, we will.

Zer0: Okay everyone let's get back on track, onto the story.

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The Crimson Goddess floated endlessly through the vacuum of space, quiet on both in and out of the ship. Inside, everyone was off doing their own thing, whether it was fixing the ship, sitting around or sleeping. The ships stereo played 'Black Thunder by HU' while Damien currently sat in one of the chairs of the cockpit overlooking space, one of his many pastimes when things got quiet. A cube floated over his hand slowly spinning inches above his fingerless gloves. He changed his attire, wearing a dirty brown jacket with black shoulder pads, black pants with a light brown belt, black boots nearly reaching his knees. He was never one to carry a blaster, which Rhasar berated him several times for, because he was never a fan of blasters. He is thankful for Rhasar but blasters were never his thing, seemed so uncivilized.

His mind raced back to what Arthon said during dinner, wondering why it had to be so hard to choose. He will admit that protecting the weak and stopping evil was fun and all, but he didn't want to get his friends hurt. That and he didn't know how much he could help, the Force was powerful and all but he knew so little of it. Was he a student of this Luke Skywalker? Or was he the reason he disappeared? So many questions and so little answers. Now with all the Resistance members, First Order deserters, and scrappers, things were not looking good for his friends.

"Maybe I should stay, they shouldn't be involved." Damien thought, he knew how much Arthon didn't want to be part of this war, and he would never force him. Hearing footsteps Damien looked over his shoulder to see Rey walking towards him.

"Can't sleep?" Damien asked.

"First time sleeping on a ship, I'm not used to it." Rey said as Damien offered her a seat. She stared at the empty void outside and Damien noticed a bit of awe as she looked out there, like she wanted more.

"Well, I believe Rhasar put it best at one point: 'You either learn to grow past it or it becomes an annoyance...like dealing with Jawas'." He said, doing his best imitation of Rhasar's voice. Rey smiled at the imitation, before a question popped in her head.

"Is it true? What Rhasar said?"

"Hmm?" Damien asked as he continued to spin the cube.

"Your memories? Rhasar told me you lost them, but how come you got the name Damien?" Rey asked, wondering to herself how he could go by a name like Damien?

"Well after I woke up, one of the smugglers named Qu'riz, took me in and taught me the ropes of being a smuggler. He named me after his late son, Dam'eon, of course changed it around a bit." Damien explained. "The old man was a good man, that's saying a lot for a smuggler. He passed away a few years ago, I left and became leader of the Crimson Goddess." Damien explained.

"I'm sorry, it must have been hard, especially with the others." Damien raised an eyebrow as she gestured behind her shoulder. "They don't seem to be very friendly."

"Give them a chance, we're just having a bad day. They don't want to be part of this big new war, some have a bad history with it." Damien said, letting the cube rest on his hand. "Arthon's shown it, Rhasar doesn't talk much but his people have had a bad history with Empire. Karine's home has been invaded so many times no one can count how many times it's been taken over." Damien said. After the end of the Galactic Empire most planets have rejoined the New Republic, Ryloth being one of them. "What about you? Jakku must have been rough, I saw how you looked at the dinner, more hungry than a Nexu in winter."

"It's never been easy, but I managed, I'm tougher than I look." Rey said confidently, her shy attitude seemingly leaving as she talked to Damien. "Moving back to the conversation, why be friends with them? They seem to judge you so much, and argue most of the time."

"That's just their way of doing things. Arthon doesn't really like anyone. Kinda hard for him to trust people, given what happened to his own." Damien shrugged. "However deep in those hardened scales I know he cares, he just does it in a more violent way. Rhasar, well, he's Mandalorian. They find respect in people who can hold themselves in a fight. You won't really catch him talking about super sensitive stuff. He tends to be more along the lines of combat. After all, it's his people's way of life. Karine is really the friendliest of us, but she is more prone to befriend droids than people, she doesn't say why and I choose to respect it. Again, they are really good people once you get to know them, you just caught us on a bad day."

"Your pilot tried to eat me." Rey stated plainly.

"He tries to eat everyone." Damien stated jokingly. Rey smiled, never felt so relaxed as she talked to this…..this man she supposed. She couldn't help but take a look, her eyes going up and down Damien's physique. He seemed pretty lean, more athletic like her and not too muscular. Being on Jakku for so long she had never had more interaction with people her age, nor a boy for that matter. She then stared at his eyes, his deep brown eyes seemed to shine happiness wherever he went.

"Rey?"

"Hmm?" Rey jolted a bit realizing she had been gazing a bit to long. She backed away, her cheeks flushed red as Damien raised an eyebrow. Though he did have to admit Rey really was a beautiful girl, probably the most beautiful one he had ever seen. He couldn't help but blush, wondering what she looked like without buns.

"You two done gazing at each other?" The two looked to see Rhasar, who had his helmet off. "We've still got work to do. And not much is getting done with you two just standing there doing nothing." He said, Damien stood up scratching his cheek, before offering his hand to Rey.

"Come on, you can help connect some wires." Damien offered. Rey smiled taking his hand and standing up.

"Can I ask one last question?" Rey asked.

"You kind of did." Damien joked, "But what is it?"

"What's it like using the Force?" Rey asked. "I never heard of it until today, what is it like?" Damien closed his eyes, humming in deep thought.

"It feels…..mystical, in a way." Damien answered. "Like the very universe is in your hands." With that Damien turned and walked away with Rey right behind him.

"Those two are so in love." Karine said from her position in the hole of the ship.

"How can you tell?" Finn asked, handing her a Scorch blower.

"How can you not, flesh bag? They're incredibly obvious about it." Arthon said, before snorting in what sounded like disgust. "And they do their courting in my cockpit. The nerve!" He muttered.

"Oh don't be such Hutt, Arthon. Damien's in love, let him be." Karine said as she put her goggles on.

"Why? If anything, chances are the scrapper won't stick around, just like the other passengers we brought onboard. It's merely a waste of time to have large feelings like that." He said.

"Unless he offers her a job." Rhasar said.

"Don't give him any ideas." Arthon said. At that moment, Poe walked in wiping his hands off from the grease.

"Okay, the engine is back and running, but the Hyperdrive is still broken and we don't have enough fuel to get near a planet. It was shot on Jakku from the Bucket Heads." Poe explained as BB rolled next to him.

"Well, that's fantastic." Rhasar muttered. "How bout that signal of yours? You and your little ball over here get anything?" He asked.

"Negative." IG stated from the corner. "No ships have responded to the message, nor any leaving from Hyperspace." The droid stated.

"How does he know that?" Finn asked.

"IG is connected to the ship: he hooks us up with jobs, messages from other systems, and helps navigate through storms and other dangers." Karine explained putting down the torch. "I built him that way, my little helper."

"Yeah, a helper that tries to kill us every five minutes." Rhasar muttered, followed by a growl of approval from Arthon. Karine gave the Mando and Trandoshan a stink eye but went back to working.

"So how long do you think we can get away from the First Order?" Finn asked leaning over the edge staring down at Karine. She removed her goggles and looked back up.

"Sounds like you want to get away as fast as possible? Scared of the First Order?" Karine asked with a smirk.

"It's a losing battle." Finn said, Karine smirk disappearing seeing how serious he is. "The Resistance, the Republic...they have no idea what the First Order's been doing. I haven't heard much, but the rumors I do hear…"

"Come on Finn, you can't mean that." Poe said putting down a tool and walking over. "You can't just give up, what was the point of getting me off the ship then?"

"You were the best chance I had at getting off the ship. If I stayed on that ship, they'd have just sent me to be reconditioned, turned back into another one of their mindless slaves who never questions a single thing they say...that's why I can't get involved with them. The Resistance, the Republic...they have limits. Lines they won't cross...the First Order doesn't follow that sentiment. They will do ANYTHING to ensure their victory." Finn said with a depressed sigh. Poe followed with a deep breath, he couldn't really blame Finn for thinking this way. He had seen it in other members of the Resistance, wishing to just stop the war and leave.

"Maybe we don't have the bigger numbers, but we do have hope. We have a map to the legendary hero Luke Skywalker, I think that's a chance worth taking." Poe said.

"What if he's dead? There's been no word about Skywalker for all these years. What if that map only leads to a dead man? What then, flesh bag?" Arthon asked.

"Then I keep fighting, I refuse to sit down or run away and let another Empire rise again. I wasn't part of it, but I know the stories, and I'm not letting it happen. If we can't find Luke, I know someone else that can help." Poe said, looking at Damien, who was showing Rey the wires to connect. "Besides, Karine? Don't you want a shot at the First Order? Follow the footsteps of your mother?"

"I….I do, Poe." Karine said with a frown. "I want to follow my Mother and be the greatest pilot in the galaxy, but those are some big shoes to fit. That and….I don't know if I'm ready. I've never been in big space battles like the stories my brother told me when I was little, I've merely ran away or tried playing Slyyyg with anyone who dared. I'm just stupidly lucky." Karine said as she rested on her arms. Feeling cold hands pat her head, she looked up to see IG patting her head.

"There, there." IG said in his cold monotone voice.

"Well, whether you want it or not, I can at least appreciate you guys helping me out." Poe said. "I owe you one."

"Thirty-thousand, flyboy. Don't forget that." Rhasar said.

"Thanks, I didn't." Poe said with a smirk before the ship started shaking violently.

"What was that?" Arthon asked, his teeth bared in annoyance.

"Several unknown Lifeforms surround the ship, all organic." IG stated as the group ran out to the cockpit and looked out into space.

"I don't see anything." Karine said as Damien and Rey joined them, scanning what they could see. Suddenly a large blue eye appeared making the group jump a bit at the size, easily as big as their ship. Damien took a deep breath before smiling, looking at Rey who seemed scared.

"It's alright, we're safe." Damien said as the creature backed up, it was an oval shape with a large mouth of razor sharp teeth and eight lower tentacles moving in a rhythm. "They're friendly."

"Purrgil." Arthon hissed, his eyes lit with recognition.

"Purrgil?" Rey asked.

"Purrgil are Interstellar species that reside out in Unknown space. They do not feed on meat but gas known from Clouzon-36 from Asteroids or comets." IG stated, it's eyes glowing blue before turning red.

"They're also responsible for most deaths out here in space, often crashing into whatever ship is in their path." Arthon said.

"And we're on their path." Poe stated deadpan as more Purrgil appeared. Damien however walked up to the glass and put his hand against it, staring at the Purrgil's eye. The creature let out a loud guttural roar, Damien closed his eyes as he let the Force guide him to feel out for the creature. The others tried to keep their feet balanced as the ship shook, before it stopped and they watched as the Purrgil floated away with five others behind it.

"What just happened?" Finn asked as Damien pulled away.

"I told her we weren't a threat." Damien explained.

"You told it?" Poe asked.

"Her?" Karine asked surprised that Damien knew it was female.

"Well….sort of. I can't physically or mentally speak to it but I think it sensed we weren't a threat. She was protecting her newborn." Damien said as the Purrgil started moving their tentacles in a flapping like position.

"Why are they glowing?" Rey asked, which brought everyone's attention back to the creatures. Their tentacles started glowing blue with serenic energy.

"Well, the Purrgil only really does that when…" Karine said, before Arthon growled.

"...they're about to jump to hyperspace." He finished. The group watched in awe as the creatures disappeared through Hyperspace.

"They can do that?" Poe asked. He has never seen such creatures do that, or any space creatures other than the worms.

"Where do you think the galaxy got the idea for hyperdrives from, flesh bag? The Purrgil can travel through hyperspace naturally. As far as we know, they're the only ones who can do so." Arthon explained.

"That was…beautiful." Rey muttered as Damien smiled at her. Suddenly the ship jolted again making everyone lose their balance and fall on their stomach or butts.

"Was that another Purrgil?" Finn asked.

"No. That was a ship that is pulling us in a tractor beam." IG stated as the ship continued to shake.

"A ship?" Poe asked.

"The Purrgil...they were moving in this direction. Away from whatever's caught us." Arthon said in realization.

"IG, why didn't you tell us?" Karine asked staring at the droid.

"I did."

"How 'bout we spend less time worrying about who said what and focus on how we're gonna get out of this." Rhasar said. They pulled themselves out as Poe helped Finn, looking out as the mouth of the ship that pulled them in got bigger.

"Maybe it's the Resistance." Poe suggested as Arthon looked outside and scanned the area around them.

"Does that look like a ship your Resistance uses?" He asked sarcastically. Karine walked over and scanned the room as she frowned.

"We're in a Baleen-Class Heavy Freighter, unless your friends are Smugglers, I doubt we're getting help." Karine said.

"How do you know what ship we're on?" Finn asked shocked and impressed Karine knew that just by looking inside a ship.

"She's lonely." Rhasar said. "If I had to guess, they could be hot shots trying to cash in on our bounties if the First Order are following their usual MO after someone pisses them off." He said.

"Come on, everyone get their blasters and be prepared for anything." Damien said walking over to a nearby table and picking up his blaster, he didn't like using one but wasn't one to defend himself unarmed. Rhasar grabbed his helmet and slipped it on followed by two blasters. Arthon picked up his cannon from the rack while Karine handed Poe and Finn two GLIE-44 blasters.

"IG, stay on the ship." Karine ordered, the droid merely standing still from the order. Damien led the crew out of the ship and scanned the area, gesturing for them to follow.

"I don't see anyone." Damien said as he looked over a box, "Doesn't seem to be some surprise attack, you'd think they would have done it by now." Arthon growled, sniffing the air.

"I smell two people...a human…" His eyes narrowed. "...and a Wookiee." He finished. Karine looked around until her eyes landed on the ship near theirs, widening in awe at the beauty before her.

"Look at that." Karine said as the group turned to see the freighter. It was a Corellian YT-1300 Light Freighter, but beauty was not words the others would describe it. Poe stared intently at the ship, until his eyes widened in shock.

"Wait a minute, I know that ship! That's the-!"

BANG

Everyone ducked as a blaster bolt hit a nearby box, followed by two more. Everyone ducked behind cover avoiding the shots.

"Got a new plan, Captain!" Rhasar said.

"I'll improvise! They might be reasonable people!" Damien shot back as he looked behind cover, only to duck again.

"You don't get far in the life of smuggling by just sitting and talking!" Rhasar countered.

"Hold on, Rhasar. Damien's right, I know these people, they're friends." Poe said from his corner.

"You call these flesh bags friends?!" Arthon said, beginning to prep his cannon as the barrels began to whirl. BB let out a loud whistle as he rolled over to Poe for cover, hiding behind his leg.

"STOP!" Damien yelled from the top of his lungs, and a few seconds later the shooting stopped. Not taking chances Damien held his hands up but did not leave his corner. "Listen, we're not your enemy."

"You're not my friends either." An old gruff voice yelled back followed by a Wookies yell.

"I knew it." Poe said, before raising his voice. "General, is that you?!" He asked.

"Poe?" The group stood up as the two walked into the hanger and Damien got a good look at them. The Wookiee was tall, as was common among his people, and he had an ammo belt hung around his shoulder and chest with a bow caster in his arms. What really caught his attention was the old man. The man was in his fifties, wearing a black leather coat, white button shirt, brown pants and black combat boots. Damien didn't know why but….he looked familiar.

"Where have you been, Poe?" The old man said holstering his blaster as the Wookiee let out a low grunt.

"That's a bit of a long story, sir." Poe said, scratching his head sheepishly. But the grin returned. "We got it, sir." He said. The old man raised an eyebrow before they widen in understanding.

"Where?" Poe gestured to BB who rolled up to the man whistling. "Hello, Ball."

"Uh, Poe." Poe turned to Karine as they walked to the three. "Who are they?"

"Right, General, these are my….friends."

"Associates." Rhasar corrected.

"They helped me get off Jakku. That's Finn. He helped me escape from the First Order."

"Escape?"

"Long story. That's the Crimson Goddess crew, they're a group of smugglers who helped me escape…..for a price." He added at the last part making the old man shake his head, Poe turned to the others. "Guys, this is General Solo."

"Solo? As in…?" Karine couldn't even finish as she stared in awe.

"Han Solo? Far as I know, kid, I'm the only one with that name." The old man said with a smirk. They were quite surprised to meet the legend himself, Han Solo. The General of the New Republic, the one who helped take down the Empire all those years ago, and the one who shot first by some. Damien smiled as he walked up and offered his hand.

"A pleasure to meet you Mr. Solo. My name is Damien, I'm the Captain of the Crimson Goddess. Those are my pilots, Karine and Arthon, our weapons expert and warrior, Rhasar, we have another but he's on board our ship. Oh and that's Rey...she got brought along by accident, but she is friendly." Han looked over his shoulder to see the young girl hiding behind the group, like she didn't want to be seen.

"I can tell." Han said sarcastically before taking Damien hand. "Well kid, thanks for looking after our best pilot. You did the Resistance a great deed." Damien smiled at the praise letting go of the old man. Both heard growling and turned to see Arthon and the Wookiee glaring daggers at each other.

"Chewie, quit it." Han ordered as the Wookiee let out a few growls and roars.

"Arthon, stop trying to start fights." Damien commanded. Arthon merely glared at Damien before snorting in annoyance.

"Great, we all met. Let me ask this: what's a general from the New Republic, the man who helped stop the Empire, doing helping out a Resistance fighter?" Rhasar asked.

"Same reason back then, stopping the First Order. Now why is the most wanted crew in the Galaxy helping out a Resistance member?" Han asked, placing his hands on his waist.

"He offered us compensation for helping him." Rhasar said. "After all, money is the best way to a smuggler's services." He said.

"I've heard that before." Han said as he turned around and started walking away with Chewie behind him. Damien was about to follow but the Wookiee grabbed him, the others were about to attack when they saw the Wookiee was…hugging? He was both hugging and petting him, making Damien let out a few chuckles and Han to turn around.

"I think your Wookiee likes me." Damien said as he tried to pull away. Han rolled his eyes at Chewie's actions.

"He's always like that with people, he must like you. Chewie let him go." Chewie let out a few growls but let go of Damien. "No he isn't." Chewie retorted with a long growl. "What do you mean-You know what I don't have time for this. Come on, Poe! We have to get out of here." Han said walking out of the hanger with Chewie behind him. Poe and the others followed behind walking down the corridors.

"Hey, Mr. General. No offense, but we'd like to be paid now." Rhasar said, following behind the General.

"Don't we all, sorry kids, but I can't help you. I got my hands full and don't need anymore on the plate, you're lucky I'm the first person to find you. It was no accident, that signal you sent, I'm probably not the only one to pick it up." Han said looking over his shoulder.

"What are you doing out here, then?" Karine asked ducking under a tube.

"I was looking for Poe, went to Jakku first and asked the locals. Said you were all chased by the First Order and I feared the worst. Then the whole galaxy got the bounty from the First Order. One million for whoever can find the Crimson Goddess and bring her crew in, all dead but the droid and some boy." Han explained as they stopped in the middle of a hallway.

"One million? Seems desperate." Arthon said, turning to Damien. "Sounds like someone is a fan of yours."

"Listen, Han." Damien said walking up to the old man. "I can't tell if you like us, but we don't mean any harm. We just want our money, and then we'll leave." Han stared at the boy, seemed like a nice enough kid, but he seemed to have a naive air about him.

"Sir." Han turned to Poe who stood by Damien. "Damien and his friends saved BB and my life, when they didn't have to. The least we can do is pay them…..and Damien has something you might be familiar with." Poe added as Han looked back at Damien.

"And what may that be?" Damien was about to explain when the ships alarms went off.

"What is that?" Rey asked.

"Oh don't tell me a Rathtar got loose." Han said with a groan as he ran past everyone.

"A what?!" Karine asked in shock unsure if she heard him right. The group ran after him as he headed to one of the near modules.

"Wow, Rathtar, huh?" Rhasar asked. "Been a while since I went after one of those." He said.

"Sir, why do you have Rathtars on this ship?" Poe asked with a shocked expression.

"The Falcon was broken so we stole this ship. It had Rathtars so we thought it'd be a nice surprise for the Smugglers that took you, obviously a mistake." Han said looking at the computers.

"Clearly." Finn added as they all stared at the screen. They saw a ship fly into a nearby hangar, Rhasar recognizing the symbol on the ship.

"Guavian Death Gang. You gotta be joking." He said.

"Guavian?" Rey asked.

"Bad gang, not friendly at all." Damien explained before looking at Han. "Why are they here?"

"This ship might be theirs, I didn't have time to ask." Han said turning off the computer and walking away.

"They don't take kindly to people stealing their things. I did business once with a guy who did that...he wasn't able to pay me when they found him. I did manage to convince them to pay me in his stead, though." Rhasar said.

"Well I don't have time for a shoot out so I want you guys to hide." Han said as Chewie lifted one of the floor pieces. "Stay down here, don't make a sound and keep out of sight."

"Do I look like I can fit down there?" Arthon hissed, gesturing to his tall frame.

"He can." Han said gesturing to Chewie. "And he is about as big as you, Scales. So get your tail down there before Chewie makes you."

"Your Wookiee touches me, his arms become my next meal." Arthon snarled.

"Guys, enough." Damien said standing between the two, looking at Han. "What about you?"

"I'm going to do what I'm good at. Talk my way out of things." Han said as Chewie made a growl. "Yes I do, everytime."

"What about BB?" Karine asked.

"He can stay with Poe and me." Han answered.

"And the Rathtars, where are they?" Finn asked only for Rey to jump and scream. Everyone turned to see some eyeball trying to break out, the Scrapper holding onto Damien.

"There's one." Han stated.

"Good idea sticking them in cells." Rhasar said. "Unless you've got proper security or protection...you really don't want one of these things getting their hands on you." He said.

"It ain't my problem once the Falcon gets ready, now get in there." Han ordered as Karine hopped in and crouched. Damien stepped aside for Rey, his hand out for her.

"Ladies first." He said as Rey stared at him with a shocked expression.

"Is this really the time?" Rey asked.

"Is it ever?" Damien asked with a smirk. She couldn't stop the smile and took his hand and guided her down.

"Cute girlfriend." Han said to Damien, making him blush.

"It's not like that."

"Sure it isn't." Han said as Damien hopped down followed by Finn. Rhasar was about to before a hand touched his shoulder, looking back he saw Poe.

"If it gets ugly, don't stick around. Get out as quick as you can." Poe said, surprising Rhasar though Poe couldn't see under the helmet, he just shook his helmet afterwards.

"Whatever, flyboy." Rhasar said, before crawling into the space between. Arthon merely stared at the hole before letting out an annoyed growl and hopping in, in his case he was crawling.

"If I hear any of you laugh, I'm going to eat one of your hands." He said, already feeling like someone was smiling. Chewie closed the lid as doors opened near them, Poe and Han had their hands resting on their blasters.

"Plan B if talking doesn't work, Sir?" Poe asked.

"Yeah, shoot our way out." Han muttered as they saw six members of the Death gang walk towards them.

"Han Solo." The lead member yelled from across the hallway. "You're a dead man."

"Bala-Tik, what's the problem?" Han said.

"The problem is you stole my ship!" Bala stated, feeling the bruise the General left on his cheek from Jakku.

"Can you see them?" Karine whispered as they peeked through the hole.

"Talking ain't really the best option right now, Tails. We gotta make sure we ain't found." Rhasar said. Damien looked around and wondered if they could sneak back to the Goddess.

"Come on guys, we need to get back to the ship." He whispered and started slowly crawling with everyone following, even Arthon who was a bit awkward with his hunched movement.

"This is the most humiliating thing I've done in my life." He growled.

"Come on now, gentlemen. I'm sure we can talk this through, after all I don't see your name on this ship." Poe said with his dashing smile, but his arm was subtly nearing his blaster.

"You're a wanted man, Solo." Bala continued, ignoring Poe. "Kanjiklub wants your head as well after you broke their deal."

"That was a long time ago, it's not my fault they hold a grudge." Han said with a smirk.

"It's true. Kanjiklub members hold one hell of a grudge. They're even willing to go after a quarry's descendants if their predecessor hasn't settled whatever gripes they had." Rhasar muttered.

"They have blasters." Rey muttered, seeing the red armored soldiers carry very big blasters.

"So do we, scrapper." Rhasar said.

"You're going to pay for taking my ship." Bala seethed as he clenched his blaster.

"You can have the ship, we just want the fuel. It was all a simple misunderstanding." Han said.

"You threw several of my men into the Rathtars."

"That was Chewie, not me. Like I said, a mistake." Han said.

"It's not just us, Solo. You owe many Gangs, the Hutts, the Cabal, Kanjiklub."

"I never made a deal with Kanjiklub." Han said in annoyance.

"Tell that to Kanjiklub." At that exact moment, doors behind them opened up. Han and the four turned to see Kanjiklub members walk out of the doors towards them.

"Kanjiklub?" Damien asked.

"Yeah." Rhasar said.

"Kriff." Han muttered under his lips.

"Is this still the talking phase?" Poe asked sarcastically, Han held his finger up to silence Poe as he turned to the other gang.

"Tasu Leech…..I would say it's good to see you, but I would be lying."

("It's over for you, Solo.") Tasu spoke in a different alien language.

"Boys, this is all a big misunderstanding. I'm a changed man, no longer a smuggler, and if you try anything, you'll have the New Republic on you. We all know neither of you want that." Han said looking back between the two. "Besides, even when I was a smuggler, have I ever not delivered for you before?"

"Yeah." Bala said.

("Twice.") Tasu said. Chewie shook his head in agreement, while Poe just shook his head.

"...What was the second time?" Han asked.

"Your game is old. There is nowhere left in the Galaxy left for you to hide, and you can't use the Republic as your shield in this area of the galaxy. They're blinded by their own arrogance, and not just that…we know you work for the Resistance." Bala said, making Han frown, knowing how this might turn out.

"That BB unit." Bala said gesturing to the droid.

"What about him?" Poe asked, standing in front of BB.

"The First Order is looking for one just like it." Bala explained.

"I swear, I keep telling them it's gotta be a different droid. The similarities are merely coincidental." Poe said.

"Not just that, but Poe Dameron, the Resistance's greatest pilot." Bala added.

"Oh, you know my name. You a fan?" Poe asked with a smirk.

"And not just you, but the Smugglers." At that exact moment, Damien and the others stopped in their tracks, hearing the mention of smugglers. "The Crimson Goddess, one of my men spotted the ship. A Trandoshan, Twi'Lek, Mandalorian, IG Unit, and a human male."

"...First time I've heard of it." Han said nonchalantly.

"That could apply to a lot of people in the galaxy. Twi'Lek? Mandalorian? Not exactly painting the best picture to help you guys here. Like you'll settle for anyone." Poe said.

("Search the Freighter.") Tasu ordered, one of his men looking around.

"Come on, we need to hurry." Damien whispered as they quickened their pace. Poe on the other hand shook his head as he looked around, before seeing a nearby console and an idea popped in his head. He looked at Han.

"I don't think talking's gonna work with these guys, General." He whispered, his hand once more nearing his blaster.

"You got a plan, Dameron?" Han asked.

"Something like Plan B...when I give the signal, be ready to run." Poe said.

"Run?" Han asked.

"Oh yeah." Poe said, raising his voice to gain the attention of the gang members. "Guavian Death Gang, Kanjiklub? They're nothing." He said.

"We caught you, didn't we?" Bala asked.

"Maybe. But I'm one of the Resistance's best spies alongside being a pilot. You really think I just slipped up and got captured by you guys? It's all part of my master plan, and you guys fell right into it." Poe said with a smirk.

"Bold words coming from a man about to die." Bala said, which resulted in Poe grinning. He had them right where he wanted.

"I'm not the one standing near a Rathtar's cell."

With that, he instantly drew his blaster and shot the terminal. At that moment, tentacles shot out grabbing anything near them, which happened to be a Death Gang member. Chaos broke out as three Rathtars started attack both gangs. Poe looked to Han and Chewie, saying only word, which also applied to the people hiding underneath them.

"RUN!"

"This is your plan?!" Han yelled as they ran down the corridor with a Rathtar rolling after them.

"Working out so far, isn't it?!" Poe asked, throwing a punch to a nearby gang member, before Han grabbed the member and threw him at the pursuing Rathtar. Under the floor Damien looked up as a Rathtar rolled by, before using the Force to blast the floor and pull himself out. He helped everyone out as Rhasar pointed his blaster for any danger.

"Okay, let's get to the ship." Damien said as the group started running down the hallway trying to avoid any Gang members or beasts. However, Damien stopped in his tracks and looked over his shoulder hearing the distant roars of Rathtars.

"Damien?" Rey asked stopping in her tracks followed by the others.

"I know that face. What are you thinking? And how am I gonna be involved?" Rhasar asked as Damien look back at them.

"We can't leave them. They're gonna get trapped." Damien said, the others knew who he referred to.

"Poe's a big boy. He'll be fine. We gotta go." Rhasar said. Damien looked back at the end hearing the Rathtars, before looking down at his own hands. He didn't know why, he barely knew Han, but he couldn't take the chance. Someone, or something was telling him to go back.

"Don't worry kid, I'll be around." He heard a voice echo in his mind, it sounded so familiar. It didn't matter, a part of him told Damien that he needed to save Han and Poe.

"Karine, Arthon, Finn, Rey." The four looked at Damien as he stared down the hallway. " Go get the ship ready, I'll be joining you soon." Damien said walking down the other way.

"No, you cannot be doing this! You can't be stupid enough to go at this alone!" Rhasar said.

"Who said I'm alone?" Damien said, at that moment Rey pushed after Rhasar, and the Mando already knew what was going. Rey knew she couldn't leave Damien alone, whether Rhasar was going or not she couldn't leave him, he was the first friend she made after all.

"Great, that's where I'm involved. There's no way I'm going after him." He said, crossing his arms. However, as Damien and Rey got farther and farther away his arms started shaking in frustration before he let out a loud annoyed sigh. "This crew's gonna be the death of me." He muttered, before running after them.

"Try not to lose a limb!" Karine yelled playfully waving at Rhasar. "Come on guys." The three ran down the hallway when Finn heard someone behind him.

"Arthon, watch out!" Finn said turning around and shooting a Death Gang member. Arthon turned around to see the dead gangster, before looking at Finn. He raised his cannon towards Finn, and when Finn thought he was gonna shoot him, the blaster fire flew above him, and he heard a loud thud, looking to see a Rathtar dead behind him.

"Watch yourself, flesh bag. Thought you Stormtroopers were supposed to be good in a fight." Arthon said, before continuing to move.

"That's his way of saying thank you." Karine explained as they ran down the hallway, ignoring Arthon's annoyed snarl. They ran into the hanger and saw the Crimson Goddess before them.

"Damien, Rhasar. We're in the hanger and about t-!"

KA-BOOM

Like a Star going Super Nova, the Crimson Goddess exploded, and went up in flames with shrapnels and flames going everywhere. Karine and the others covered their eyes from the intense heat, but Karine lowered her arms to stare in shock as her precious ship was gone. She fell to her knees and dropped her blaster. They hear footsteps and all three turn to see a Kanjiklub member before he was shot by Arthon.

"NO!" Karine screamed before hitting the metal floor. "DAMN YOU KANJIKLUB! DAMN YOU ALL TO THE NETHERWORLD!" Arthon merely snarled, before placing a hand to his comm.

"Rhasar, we have a problem." He said.

"We got problems of our own!" Rhasar's voice echoed on the comm.

---

"You know, Rey, you didn't have to follow." Damien said as they turned a corner running down it.

"It seemed like you needed help, plus after all you have done, I felt like I should return the favor." Rey said.

"Awe, thanks."

"Plus you are my ride back to Jakku."

"...Right." Damien said with a frown but heard footsteps behind him, turning around he smiled to see Rhasar catch up to them. "I knew you would follow."

"For the record, this is cause you're my current source of income. It'd be a shame to have your death on my record. Bad for business." Rhasar said. "Which reminds me…" Before he threw a punch to Damien's face. Damien cried as he held his nose, not enough to break, but it still hurt like hell. "...that's for doing this!"

"Knew you still cared." Damien groaned as he rubbed his nose before the three continued. "Now let's find Han and get them out of here, and stay clear of the Rathtars."

"What do Rathtars look like?" Rey asked as they turned a corner and the door opened, only to hear the screams of Death Gang members before trapped by a Rathtar. It ate one of them before tossing the other seeing the three, roaring.

"They look like that." Rhasar said pulling out his blasters and shooting it. However, it only angered the Rathtar, making it roar at them. The three bolted the other way with the Rathtar behind them.

"Told you shooting doesn't always work!" Damien said as he used the Force to close the door behind him.

"Well, I certainly doubt your little conversations would work on these guys like the Purrgils!" Rhasar shouted.

"This is not the time to argue." Rey said as the Rathtar started breaking down the door. The three continued to run not really caring where they were, so long as they could find Han and Poe.

FWOOM

Damien stopped in his tracks, gasping as if gravity itself nearly crushed him, holding him in place. He felt the Force around him scream, his head pulsating with pain as he clutched it. He closed his eyes and grinded his teeth, the voices of Rhasar and Rey seemed to just disappear as did the Rathtar roar. He opened his eyes as the pain seem to subside, rubbing his head he looked back up expecting to see the hallway of the Smuggler ship.

He wasn't on the ship anymore.

He didn't know where he was, but it was clean, smooth like a large Republic like Freighter. He scanned the room unsure where he was at nor how he got there. The area around him was colored black and grey, and it felt as if the ship was devoid of individuality. It felt...cold, creepy...EVIL. That's when he realized it wasn't the Force, he felt the presence of something powerful behind him. Something more powerful than he had ever felt before.

Dark.

Turning around he saw someone, or something, sit in a meditative like position on the floor. This being was covered in dark cloth, hugging his entire form, humanoid in appearance but his face was covered by some black mask. Damien saw that this being was floating above the ground with objects floating as well. That's when Damien realized this being was a Force Wielder, but his presence was dark. The being lowered itself on the ground, the objects dropping slowly around him. He did not appear to notice Damien...but then his head tilted slightly toward his direction, as if he heard him.

"...You should not be here." Were the only words Damien heard the man say. Damien jumped at the voice, filtered by the mask no doubt but that didn't stop it from being terrifying. The man looked over more and Damien notice the single line visor across his helmet, and before he realized it, a crimson blade was at his throat. That's when Damien put it together, the way Poe and Finn described him, the one they feared, the man he thought he would never face.

Kylo Ren.

"Who are you?" Kylo growled, his filtered tone like that of a rabid animal as Damien backed away, sweat beading down his neck as the blade inched closer, ready to cut his head off. He has never been afraid before as he is now, staring down what felt like the Darkness itself. Before he could react, Kylo pulled his blade back and prepared to swing, Damien covered his face to protect himself.

"DAMIEN!" Two hands grabbed him and shook him, Damien opened his eyes to find himself back on the Smuggler ship, Rhasar staring at him as the Mando held his shoulders.

---

Back on the 'Finalizer' Kylo stared at the scorch mark he left on the wall, where the boy was originally standing. He didn't realize it until it was too late.

"It couldn't be."

---

"What are you doing?! We can't just stand around!" Rhasar said. However, his anger faded a bit as he noticed Damien's shocked expression, and even saw his left sleeve was singed, like a blaster bolt or something hit him which was impossible.

"Did…..did you see him?" Damien asked, swallowing his spit.

"See who? You're the only one here!" Rhasar said.

"Guys, we need to hurry." Rey said rejoining them after looking on, after Damien stopped in his tracks they waited for him to stop whatever was going on.

"Tell that to him. Just stopped without a reason and just stood there for a minute." Rhasar muttered.

"Damien, what happened?" Rey asked as Damien took deep breaths.

"I saw…..I sa-GAH!" Damien screamed as he was hoisted in the air, a Rathtar roaring as it flailed him around.

"DAMIEN!" Rhasar exclaimed watching the teen be pulled away by a Rathtar.

"NO!" Rey yelled, watching her first friend be dragged by the beast. However Rhasar jumped into the air grabbing Damien's hand holding onto him as tight as he could. He shot a wire towards a wall, wrapping around a pipe, tying it to his knee before pulling out his blaster.

"DON'T SHOOT ME!" Damien yelled as he flailed around in the tentacle. Rhasar grunted in annoyance as Rey followed behind him.

"You gotta be kidding me!" Rhasar shouted. Despite Damien's request, Rhasar kept firing, trying to kill the Rathtar.

"Rhasar, we have a problem." Arthon's voice said through the comms. Rhasar fired another shot, before answering.

"We got problems of our own!" He said.

"The Crimson Goddess is gone." The Trandoshan stated shocking the Mando, making him groan.

"Great. Just great!" Rhasar said, turning the corner to continue chasing the Rathtar. "Just what I wanted in life! Another batch of unlucky circumstances! Resistance pilots, First Order turncoats, and now our ship blows up! This day is just going GREAT!" He shouted.

---

"My ship…..My baby." Karine moaned in defeat as the remains of the Goddess turned into molten scrap. Finn didn't really know how to comfort her, since he has been through a lot worse but could tell Karine was still in pain. So doing his best he simply patted her back, hoping to calm her.

"Uh, don't worry Karine. I'm sure you can buy a new ship." Finn said.

"I have a better proposition." Everyone turned to see IG on the entrance ramp of the Falcon. "We steal this ship."

"Steal the Millennium Falcon? Are you serious?" Finn asked.

"We don't have many options, flesh bag." Arthon said, before looking at IG. "How are you still in one piece? Weren't you still on the Goddess?" He asked.

"I sensed impending danger from the Meat Bags, so I took precaution and left to hijack this suitable ship, only taking anything of value." IG stated.

"And that is?"

"My own frame." IG stated pointing at his chest, making Arthon growl in annoyance.

"We'd best get moving before more of them try to blow up our only escape route. Come on!" Arthon said, as Finn and IG made their way into the Falcon. Arthon stopped seeing Karine still staring at the flames.

"Karine, we have to go." He hissed.

"My ship, it was the first one I ever built." Karine groaned.

"Well, we can't mourn right now. Our lives are currently in danger." Arthon said, pulling her up and dragging her away, not rough but enough to keep the Twi'Lek on her feet. The two boarded the ship and ran into the cockpit, sitting in the front seats.

---

Damien grunted and screamed in pain as the Rathtar, Rey and Rhasar trying to pull him free and avoiding the other tentacles. He didn't know what else to do but use the Force, hoping that it would work. Reaching out, Damien focused on the Rathtar hoping to reach the beast, letting the Force help him. The beast growled and snarled as it looked around before stopping, turning and preparing to eat Damien. Damien clenched his eyes shut as he focused on the Force, his mind screamed as to hit the Rathtar. No objects around him flew nor answered his call, he growled in anger, before releasing it in a primal cry.

"Stop!" He exclaimed as a powerful burst sent Rhasar and Rey flying back. Damien clenched his teeth in pain, before he felt its saliva hit his boots, but did not feel the creature swallow him whole. Opening his eyes Damien felt the grip on his waste loosen as the Rathtar let out loud heavy breathing putting Damien down, staring at him. He smiled as he attempted to back away, the pain in his head subsided like it was fading the more he let the Force go.

BANG!

The Rathtar roared in pain as Damien jumped back, seeing a Kanjiklub member shoot at the Rathtar in fear. The creature grabbed the man and tossed him straight in his mouth, the main screaming before a loud crunch followed. The Rathtar turned back to Damien and snarled moving towards him to devour the boy. Damien tripped and landed on his ass backing up as far as he could...only to see a stream of fire fly past him toward the Rathtar, which recoiled in pain.

"This makes how many times I've pulled you out of trouble now?" Rhasar's asked, stepping in front of Damien, pushing the Rathtar back with the flame before shooting the nearby terminal with his blaster, forcing the door to shut immediately, blocking them off from the creature. Once that was done he turned back to Damien who was pulling himself back up.

"I can't believe you stood there, like a Womp rat caught in the thrusters. Wh-!" Before he could stop him, Damien wrapped his arms around Rhasar. Rhasar was about to protest but felt Damien was shaking a bit, clearly shook from the near death experience. He sighed as Damien let go, the teen frowned a bit.

"Thanks, Rhasar." Rhasar merely shook his head as he patted Damien's shoulder. Rey was watching this interaction with curiosity, surprised to see the Mando be so awkward in the hug.

"I want double after this." Rhasar said as Damien smiled, nodding his head before looking back at Rey.

"Let's go find Han and the others." Damien said as the three ran down the hallway, looking for the Resistance General.

---

"Can you get that door unlocked any faster?" Poe asked ducking under a blast. Poe, Han, Chewie, and BB were only one door away from the Falcon but were stuck and being shot at by the Guavians.

"You try shooting and unlocking at the same time." Han retorted as he fired a bolt killing a Gang member, before going back to unlocking the door. Chewie growled a bit as he fired several shots, only to roar in pain as a blast hit him in the arm.

"Chewie!" Poe said helping the Wookiee up. However, the members continued shooting, blasting Poe's gun out of his hand. Poe looked around before reaching for Chewie's Bow Caster, he pulled the trigger and watched a gang member be sent flying.

"Woah." Poe said, amazed by its efficiency. More gang members started shooting, Han prepared to fight back only to watch as two of them were sent flying by some unknown force. To his surprise, Damien, Rhasar, and Rey turned a corner.

"Poe, you guys okay?" Damien asked. Poe was about to answer only to see another Gang member appear and was about to shoot Rey.

"Behind you!" Damien turned at the last second to see the man fire, time slowed down as the bolt flew towards Rey backside, his eyes widening in fear as he reached out.

"NO!"

FWOOM

Han, Poe, and Chewie stared in awe as Damien hand reached out to Rey, but what shocked them was the bolt blast inches from her back held in place. The Gang member was even frozen before Rhasar shot him, only to stare in shock at the bolt blast held in place.

"I….I can't believe it." Han said only to look at a smirking Poe.

"Told you it would be familiar." Poe said. Rey moved out of the way as Damien dropped his arm, letting the blast go flying in the opposite direction. Without even thinking Damien grabbed Rey and hugged her, she didn't even know how to react. She was so shocked that it took her a second that Damien saved her life again. He let her go and the three ran back to Han, Damien using the Force to unlock the door.

"Come on, we don't have time." Damien stated as he walked past Han, only to stop seeing the flaming pile of metal. "What happened to the ship?"

"It blew up." Arthon said simply. They all turned to see him by the Falcon, the ship primed and ready. "You just gonna stand there or are we going to leave?" He asked, rushing back into the ship. Damien and the group ran into the ship dropping their gear as Damien ran into the cockpit seeing Karine activating the ship.

"You ever fly one of these, Karine?" Damien asked.

"No, which is why I need help." Karine said, only to see Han land in the seat next to her.

"No one flies this ship but me and Chewie, but since he is out of commision you'll do kid." Han said as he started flipping switches from his side.

"What about us?" Rhasar asked from the door. "You want us to hold on for dear life?"

"No. I want you to help Chewie." Han said as the Wookiee roared on the med bay while Poe tried to wrap bandages around him.

"Chewie, I'm trying to help you here! You're not helping me by moving around!" The Resistance agent said, trying to stick the bandages into the flailing Wookiee. Arthon hissed in annoyance from the doorway to the cockpit before turning to Han.

"You don't expect me to play medic?" He asked with narrowed eyes.

"No, I expect you to listen to me, I'm the damn captain not get back there and help them." Han ordered, making Arthon snarl in annoyance before leaving, seeing no point in arguing. Rey meanwhile sat near one of the seats holding on as the ship shook. "Watch the thrust. We're going out of here at Lightspeed."

"Are you insane?" Karine asked. "You expect us to do that inside the Hangar? Is that even possible?!"

"I never ask that question till after I've done it." Han states as Damien sits behind them. A thud made the three jump to see a Rathtar trying to bite down on the glass. "This is not how I thought this day was gonna go."

"Hang on everyone!" Damien yelled as the ship flew into the air.

"No problem!" Poe said trying to contain Chewie. "Finn, grab me some bandages."

"Right." Finn said running towards the bag, reaching in he grabbed something round. Pulling out he saw some strange white ball with grey and red outlines, before he tossed it aside to find more bandages. Outside the ship the Guavian Death Gang remaining members started shooting at the Falcon, trying to destroy it.

"Come on, baby, don't let me down." Han said as he activated the compressor. The ship roared with life as he turned to Karine. "Punch it!"

"You got it!" Karine said as she pushed the level. The three braced themselves as the Rathtar was ripped apart, the Gang members were sent flying, and the Falcon sped into Hyperspace. Bala watched the whole scene take place before reaching for his comms.

"Inform the First Order, the droid and the bounties are on the Millennium Falcon."

---

(Unknown Space)

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TIE Fighters sped past several Star Destroyers as they flew towards an unknown snowy planet in the far reaches of space. The planet was split by a large gap going across half the planet, at the center a large hole possibly for exhaust. Deep within the planet, two men stood before their master. One being Kylo Ren, and the other being General Pryde. He felt insulted though as Snoke was expecting his Supreme General, Armitage Hux. It was insult to his pride, However both men at the moment stood before the large hologram of their master, the man who created the First Order and the reason it was rising in power. No one knew where he came from, but he was the answer those that served the Empire seeked, a man of great power.

Supreme Leader Snoke.

"The droid will soon be delivered to the Resistance." Snoke said in a frighteningly calm tone, despite the older man frail form Hux knew the power of the Supreme Leader. "Leading them to the last Jedi…..Skywalker."

"It will be too late for them, Supreme Leader." Pryde said, Snoke stared at him offhandedly before looking at his hand.

"If Skywalker returns, the new Jedi will rise."

"Supreme Leader, the Resistance is nothing but a small Militia of hop-!"

"Silence." Snoke ordered, Pryde shut his mouth as Snoke stared at him. Pryde has never seen the Supreme Leader angry, and he feared what the being would be like so. "The New Republic are blinded by their arrogance, but if the Resistance continues this crusade, it will mean the end of everything we worked for."

"I will not let this happen, Supreme Leader." Pryde said stepping forward, Kylo looking at him. "The weapon is ready, I believe it is time that the Galaxy see the new Order, by taking away their hope: The Resistance." Pryde stated as Snoke leaned forward rubbing his chin, interested. "Without the Resistance and at the sight of our weapon, the Galaxy will be ours to rule once more. The Resistance will be crushed before they will reach Skywalker, and the map will be ours." Snoke stared at Pryde intently, before giving him a motion of acceptance.

"Go. Prepare the weapon, let this blind Galaxy feel the fear as they once did in the time of the Empire." Snoke ordered resting back in his throne.

"Yes, Supreme Leader." Pryde said as he turned around only to stare at Kylo. The masked warrior stared back as if the two were glaring daggers, but Pryde smirk said otherwise as he walked away feeling victorious on his appraise. Kylo stood in silence as the General feet distance themselves, Snoke hologram flickered a bit before his voiced boomed.

"There has been an awakening." Kylo looked up as Snoke stared down at his finest achievement. No weapon in the Galaxy will ever compare to Kylo in Snoke's mind. "I sense it, the Force cries out for something, have you felt it?"

"...Yes." Kylo answered. He knew that Snoke felt the same presence he did from Jakku, and he knew it was the same boy that was in his room before.

"Skywalker may be missing but I sense others are out there, others that wish to take the mantle of the Jedi. I sense the Light trying to reach out and call them, but some are…..gone. As if they cut themselves from the Force. Even Skywalker I cannot sense." Snoke muttered as he rubbed his chin before looking down at Kylo. "There is something you know, isn't there?"

"No." Kylo stated without remorse, and it worked since Snoke could not sense his lie. "I sense only the Light and Dark, I sense Power. I sense…"

"The location of the droid, is aboard the Millennium Falcon." Snoke states as he leans back. "Aboard the ship of-!"

"It means nothing to me." Kylo interjected. "That name is dead. I will continue the search to destroy what remains of the Light."

"The Knights of Ren are already finished with their mission in the Inner Systems. However I will be sending them to Naboo. They will join us at a later point." Snoke said.

"And what of Lady Lumiya? Will she be joining the preparations?" Kylo asked, thinking of the Dark Mistress that showed him the many sides of the Dark Side and it's power. Truthfully though he had no care for the Dark Side, or the Light. To Snoke, it was both but to Kylo it was the key to everything he wanted.

Power.

"No. Lumiya is searching for Luke as well, I have no doubt she will fail and return." Snoke said before smirking at Kylo. "Are you conflicted, my boy? I sense the Light and Dark tearing at you, one side trying to overpower the other." Snoke said, Kylo didn't say anything or show any hesitation even with the helmet on.

"It is nothing, the Force does not control me." Kylo said as Snoke chuckled.

"That is why I chose you, Kylo. Master of the Knights of Ren, the perfect embodiment of the Light and Dark to be my Sword for the First Order and for a new age. The Force echoes around you like a Storm…..perfection. However, your training is not complete…...but you will be, and when you are finish. You will be the most powerful Force Wielder in history." With that, Snoke's hologram disappeared leaving Kylo in the darkness. He turned back and started walking away, his mind processed everything Snoke said. Light, Dark, Good, Evil, he doesn't care.

He needed more Power.

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Zer0: And we are done! With the third chapter. Originally we we're gonna add one final scene but I (Bio was also tired) felt it was a nice ending to the third chapter. So did you guys like it? I did, it was really fun writing the dialogue, the Force parts were really fun…..Oh and Kylo, does he remind you of anyone? Bio anything you want to say? Yes and Han has arrived and isn't a Smuggler but a General because that fits with his fucking character? Yes! Lumiya? Yes.

Bio: Things are only gonna get more amped up as we continue.

Zer0: Remember when I said a lot of things will stay the same in the first book/movie? Yeah….Just wait. Okay, now what we really need to get done and has to be said.

Our response to you, Aspiring-Creator. So we had to reread your entire two reviews several times, just so we didn't miss something. We, yes TWO of us, not the royal we, are going to break it down.

Bio: I'm kinda hurt you didn't think I was real. Am I that forgettable? Because I sure as hell didn't forget you.

Zer0: You even sent a PM to Bio two years ago, sure it was for Lil'Sonic and I don't know if Bio replied but I know you did send him one. You sent me one too, but we'll dismiss this as you forgetting which is fine. But let's start with the first review, and this response is a long one. Glad you liked the crawl.

Bio: Guess who wrote it? Me, the guy you presume to not be real.

Zer0: Bio you're gonna have to let that go. We have more important things, though this is up there.

Bio: You assume that I'm mostly reasonable in certain instances.

Zer0: True. Let's start with the first part.

'I swear any time I read "SJW propaganda" I want to scream.'

Bio: We're not the only ones to say this. Literally every sane human being that enjoys Star Wars sees this. And of course, Disney ain't subtle about it.

Zer0: You can't tell us it's not SJW Propaganda: Rey can't do anything wrong, or at least has an easy thing going for her. Literally the first time she used the Force, she beat Kylo in a mind fuck interrogation when the guy had years of training and she just got used to it. She knew how to fly a ship without any knowledge that we can see, sure she can drive a speeder. That's like saying I can drive Jet first time when I only ride bicycles.

Bio: It's like putting me in the pilot seat of a plane, but the problem is I was taught to fly a helicopter.

Zer0: Sure, maybe she had some training, but from where? You never see it from the first part of the movie.

Bio: Flying usually means you have to have some time off world in the case of Star Wars, but Rey never left Jakku after being dumped there by her folks. And I'm pretty sure the people keeping her there wouldn't let her near any means of escape, even if she's like someone with Stockholm when it comes to Jakku.

Zer0: Twenty Five Percent of TLJ on Canto was basically that Capitalism was bad, the worst people in the galaxy are the one percent, not the First Order that killed her sister, not the Pirates or Bounty Hunters who kill anyone for a quick buck. No, it's the rich people.

'I personally feel the author's notes with the jeers and such thrown at the ST are a bit much and I kind of have a reason for it. You're trying to get readers to consider looking at this different take on VII and yet from the author's note I already get a weird, slightly condescending vibe from it.'

Zer0: Yes, we want people to enjoy it, if they don't then okay. It's not condescending, that's us being us. We're really chill dudes (Unless we get into debates, or playing Destiny.) and have fun conversations.

Bio: You call it condescending. I call it acknowledging what we, and many others, consider to be a trilogy with wasted potential.

Zer0: If you can't handle different opinions or how they treat the ST, that's on you. People can like the ST, but they also should likely accept that a LOT of people didn't like them.

Bio: And let me put it this way. We don't hate it. Some bits of the trilogy we enjoyed...but there were more negatives than positives in our experience.

'Then again it could be that I am a fan of the ST and someone who can't stand the old EU but still, I feel like despite being told that it's fine if I like the movies I'm not welcome here. Also as someone who read ahead and saw just how much of the second chapter is just the author's note going off on the sequels, I really feel I have to mention that this is kind of an issue.'

Bio: You trying to tell me you think the Sequel Trilogy is better than undisputed masterpieces like KOTOR, Republic Commando, and Force Unleashed? I enjoy certain aspects of the ST, but I already know they don't hold a candle to some of the material from the EU and Legends. Hell, the Thrawn trilogy of novels might be some of the best Star Wars books to ever be published.

Zer0: I'm sure he might have meant the books and Legends (Which yes the games are apart of but that doesn't really excuse it. If you can't handle different opinions, that's you being easily triggered because someone is showing you how bad the ST are. Dude, people hate stuff I love all the time and I'm fine with that, people hate the Prequels, some people hate Borderlands 3, some people hate Mega Man, and I'm fine with that because I know that those games/movies have problems and I still enjoy them. I can handle different opinions, it seems like you can't so far.

Bio: We're not telling ya that you suck for liking the Sequels. Far from it. If you like the Sequels, more power to you. We just can't ignore the many faults we see in the trilogy. The sort of inconsistencies and canon breaks this trilogy has makes the plot holes of the prequels look like a masterpiece in comparison.

'Another thing I don't like is that it feels like the solution to remaking VII so far is basically "How much fanservice can we cram into the story?" and this is where I feel like bringing up one of my personal positive points for TFA and that's how it weaved the fanservice in a way that felt natural while still leaving room for the new stuff.'

Zer0: What fanservice? That one Training ball and the chess game?

Bio: Better question: WHAT NEW STUFF?

Zer0: You pointed out two things, IG and the YT Freighter. IG was obvious fanservice, I'm not denying that, though the only fanservice part of him is his backstory, that was the point. That doesn't mean he won't have his character arc. The YT Freighter isn't fan service, it's a stick we picked out of a cup because we needed a ship for the crew. Seriously, we just went on Wookieepedia and looked up ships and saw what worked. I guess we should have gone to a…...(Looks at Saiya SW book)...Baudo Class Yacht ship. Or is that fanservice? I guess every ship is fanservice at this point.

Bio: I shit you not, I literally watched both A New Hope and The Force Awakens simultaneously...THREE SEPARATE TIMES. And beat for beat, the story was the exact same thing. There was nothing new in TFA, as far as I can tell.

Zer0: And that's okay, we both agreed it was the best of the ST, or at least Bio thought it was a better meh than all of them.

'Here? This story has a very... how do I put this? It has a typical fanfiction feel to it.'

Zer0: Wow, I would never think a Fanfic story would have a fanfic feeling to it. This is where the criticism just went down the drain (Not that it was helpful to begin with), you cannot say that without realizing where you are. Did that come to you when you wrote that? That's like saying when watching a Porno that it has a Porno feeling to it. It sounds stupid saying or reading it.

Bio: Gee, I wonder what this site is called.

'I mean you've got the fact they're flying the model of YT freighter that people know from Shadows of the Empire which okay is a neat nod but then it gets to be too much.'

Bio: Again. We drew sticks for the ship. And to quote Linkin Park, in the end, it doesn't even matter. As you saw, we blew it up...though don't count that as the end of the Crimson Goddess just yet. (Zer0: It blowing up was all part of the plan, you see. Not that anyone would know and should think that we have a plan.)

Zer0: What is too much? You haven't explained anything, and honestly, I really don't care about fanservice anymore. Also with the bit of them of how you said and I quote 'and then there's how they enter the story which feels like what I'd expect to see from fanfics like this.' Dude every first Star Wars film begins with a ship flying towards a planet, or at least starting in Space. That isn't Fanfic, that's following a formula and from Fanfics like this? Oh sorry that I didn't have them all sitting in silence while humming 'The Sound of Silence' because that's Star Wars for you.

'The Mandalorian character clearly takes influence from both The Mandalorian as well as the two Fetts but in a way that feels kind of forced to me (Not to mention the design pretty much sounds like what I'd expect from a Star Wars fan-character.), you've got an IG Magnaguard because prequel reference'

Bio: Huh. A Mandalorian that looks like a Mandalorian. Who woulda thought? Though let me be perfectly clear: the biggest inspiration when creating Rhasar wasn't the Fetts or The Mandalorian. It was a mix of a different Mandalorian, KOTOR's Canderous Ordo, as well as Rocket from Guardians of the Galaxy with his extremely biting behavior.

Zer0: I have never seen a Mandalorian not wear Mando armor or at least act like one. Even Sabine carries her Mando traits (Though that's not sayning much the first two seasons.). IG isn't just a reference, he is the Droid of the Main Characters, we also picked him out of a stick.

This is just to everybody, not just Creator. We will not sugar coat things, we will tell you if we got it from the Legends, Canon, and or twisted it in our own way. We want everyone to enjoy this story, but we also want to make something Bio and I can enjoy writing to write and have fun with. People aren't going to like our story and that's fine. Those that wish to stay and want to see what we have cooking can and I hope they enjoy it. Moving on.

Bio: Literally the idea for IG came around since I bounced the idea of a Droid on the crew to Zer0 one day, and we spent the next hour or two trying to figure out what to use, then I suggested a Magnaguard.

'You have a movie someone doesn't like and they decide to basically stick in their own fan-characters to make things "better" when personally I think it'd be better to just focus on the characters you have and see how they can be improved. I think what adds to this is the crack at Jakku. I mean... come on, I know you don't like the movie and so I expect every now and again a dig but that felt way too much like you were speaking through the character and not like anything I'd hear from a Star Wars character.'

Bio: But we're not just making new characters. We ARE focusing on the characters we got from the films. After all, Rey's still here. Finn is still here. They'll still be part of the story, but we hope that our interpretation of them can better utilize their potential that the movies failed to do in our opinion.

Zer0: I admit what I wrote was an obvious jab, though you cannot say that's not what a person would say. But I went back and corrected it, still a jab and I will not be ashamed of it. Also with the characters I liked Rey at the beginning but then it went downhill, same with Finn from the entirety of the first movie I loved him ...then The Last Jedi came out.

Bio: It literally sent him right back to square one. Repeated his arc from TFA, starts a coward, but by the end, is a hero ready to die for his friends. He shouldn't be doing that twice.

Zer0: Then we had to have twenty percent of the second talk about how the rich are assholes and are the real evil, how war works with Rose (who cares more about freeing racing animals than freeing the slave children), and Finn screaming. Oh and BB being able to send a Guard back with coins…..fucking coins. And all of that was pointless. Luke tried to kill his nephew who had a small chance of evil in him when his Dad killed thousands. And not just the men, but the women, and the children too! He slaughtered them like animals! Alright enough of that, onto the next review.

Second Review:

'The idea of Finn being considered to be made into a Sith Trooper is a neat concept. I like how it takes the element of him being a Stormtrooper and expands upon how good he was in that position and the idea that he was Phasma's personal student, especially since that could lead to a very personal conflict later on down the line.'

Zer0: This is why we did this, because we wanted Finn to be better than just three movies of him yelling, and I quote…'REEEEY'. Nothing wrong with that...but it happened.

Bio: Again, that bit was me. Real flesh and blood. Not a fake construct that this guy made. Because I believed Finn had better potential than being a form of comedic relief half the time in the trilogy.

Zer0: Nothing wrong with humor, but it does get old. Rey and the grass thing in TLJ was funny to me, but everything after that was…...meh. Not even a meh, it was just…..what?

'I also find myself really liking Arthon. Reminds me a bit of Zeb from Rebels and really it's nice to get a Trandoshan character especially one with this kind of backstory to him.'

Zer0: No offense to Rebels (And this is not a big deal, but we did feel like responding to this), but Zeb wasn't that great of a character, in my opinion.

Bio: While I personally liked Zeb, he was nowhere in my mind when creating Arthon. I just imagined a Trandoshan, and eventually, as you saw in the last chapter, I added some world building in the form of the Purge of Trandosha, as we call it, where the First Order nearly wiped out the entirety of the Trandoshan race. Not like the Lasat, who managed to preserve a majority of their numbers. We're talking nearly scorched earth kind of purge. As in Arthon IS one of the last living Trandoshans in the galaxy.

Zer0: But that's a story for another point in the series.

'However, there are flaws here we have to discuss and to start off? The arguing this group gets into is a bit much. One thing I loved about The Force Awakens was how it really didn't do what a lot of films and shows seemed to be doing at the time and that's have characters almost always be on the verge of fighting and/or consistently getting on each other's nerves to the point where it's hard to believe these people are even friends. I mean at this point it's past feeling like a family and it's more getting into the territory of me just not feeling like I want to spend too much time with these people.'

Bio: Do you agree 100% with your friends all the time? I don't. And thus, we occasionally have arguments. It's what makes our friendships great. We don't always agree...otherwise, it's just boring.

Zer0: These people argue because they have reasons to argue, they are having a bad day. Damien wants what is best for his team and they need to argue to make agreements, like not wanting to join the war. People argue to make agreements in real life, that's how Politics work. Also Poe and Rey met at the end of the second episode which is not only bad writing, but the next time they talk they are arguing in the final movie. The thing you don't like about what we did is what they did with Poe for fifty percent of his screen time in the final movie.

Bio: Plus, you say that most media does this. And it works. Look at Guardians of the Galaxy, a team of outcasts who practically hate each other half the time, and yet they're all best friends and one of the greatest franchises ever. Or even the Suicide Squad (excluding the awful DCEU film), a bunch of people who'd rather do their own thing, forced to work together, and it's probably some of the best things DC makes.

'Next there's the pacing which to me feels like it's going by way too fast. Now that isn't to say that the pacing of The Force Awakens or the Original Trilogy wasn't fast since it was but there was a natural flow and things moved quickly without feeling necessarily like someone was mashing the skip button. Here? The feeling is almost like someone is basically hitting the fast-forward button every now and again to get to the cool action bits faster rather than taking the time to slow down and really develop characters which so far seems to have been done almost entirely through exposition by them or the third person narration which really doesn't work for me, especially since Star Wars usually is so good at letting a character develop through their actions over the course of a movie.'

Zer0: Rey hit Finn, they talked for a minute, then ran from Stormtroopers the next minute and into the Falcon. How is that good or natural pacing?

Bio: That's kind of a pattern in JJ's films. Like in Star Trek. Beginning of the movie, the captain of the Kelvin goes to speak with the Romulans, and within a minute of talking to him, Nero kills the captain, and destroys the Kelvin. And while that's happening, Kirk is born while his dad fucking dies. Then we have a quick cut to Kirk as a kid for some reason, being a delinquent, which I honestly didn't really see as needed. We could've just cut to Chris Pine doing something smarmy stuff and that'd be fine.

Zer0: Sure, Nero is a bloodthirsty warrior, but JJ's movies are...what was it called Bio? No scenes, just plot. We didn't have every little scene from the beginning of TFA because we felt like it wasn't needed, everyone already knows what happened.

Bio: Just blindly rushes from one narrative moment to the next. They barely take a minute to slow down for anything in TFA.

Zer0: Our characters had time to talk before Finn woke up, our characters had time to talk before the Stormtroopers arrived, and once everything quieted down we had plenty of time to talk. How dare you say the Originals had bad pacing, they were fantastic. Luke, Obi-Wan, and Han had time to talk and we got to understand their (Especially Han) character through, what shock, exposition.

'Next since this is gonna bug me, I do want to talk about the whole toxic fandom thing since it's relevant to the points I'm going to bring up here. Usually when people refer to a toxic fandom or a toxic side of the fandom? They're referring to a very particular part of the fandom that to put it bluntly is the absolute worst. I mean we're talking people who will hate a film purely because it has a female character in it, will continuously get into fights with those who disagree with them and will feel the need to people on Twitter to keep dragging them into basically long rants about what they hate and really, I think while Cavill means well I don't quite think he really got what that interviewer meant when they brought up toxic fandom and I say this because there are shades of that in the author's notes here.'

Zer0: We're not saying there aren't assholes. We're saying that the Media thinks that anyone that doesn't like or actually critiques the movie is against Disney and is toxic, and that is a lot of people.

Bio: Yeah. We refer to small sections of the fandom. Whereas the media will label the entirety of the fandom as toxic, as was the case in that Witcher interview. The guy didn't say the toxic side of the fandom. He said 'toxic fandom', as if everyone in the fandom is toxic. And of course, Cavill's response jumped him up to one of my favorite actors of today.

Zer0: Granted, he corrected himself, however that might just show what he really sides with. I don't care if it's reaching or not, someone wrote this down for him or at least the question. Whether the guy did, doesn't stop the fact that a lot of media, and Disney, and Rian Johnson thinks anyone that doesn't like the ST are toxic.

Bio: Seriously, you think our little jabs at Rian were toxic? I admit, it was a little unprofessional, but that's being polite compared to what Rian says about folks who don't like Last Jedi.

Zer0: For example, when everyone attacked Rose's actor, I thought it was wrong. I don't hate the actors, sure they annoy me (Brie Larson), but I'm not gonna blame them. I blame the people who write the scripts all so they can sell their Agenda. Cavil knows there are good people who don't want their series ruined and that's why he thinks of them as passionate. Maybe he didn't think of the assholes, but he knows that a lot of people who read the books (Like he did), played the games (Like he did), loves the series and don't want it to be ruined by Woke Feminist Agenda.

Bio: If you call the people who don't like your movie 'toxic man babies' (I kid you not, Rian actually said something like this) or something like that...you're not gonna be getting any form of respect from me.

Zer0: It's like saying it is only the men that hate the Woke stuff, I guess no woman today didn't hate the Last Jedi (I guess Star Wars Girl, one of my favorite Star Wars Youtubers, was talking out of her ass).

'I mean compared to the little jabs in the previous chapter? This is basically a full on vent session about the sequels and it includes shades of things like calling Rian Johnson "Ruin Johnson" and telling him to go fuck himself and saying "muh versity". These are shades of that toxic side of the fandom, that sort of entitlement people feel towards a franchise and also just the bizarre opposition shown towards the movie for doing something as simple as have a strong woman. Now I want to be clear that in no way am I trying to call you toxic nor am I saying it's not okay to criticize the sequels since... I mean they're movies and opinion is subjective, one man's treasure is going to be another man's trash and so on. The thing is as I read this talk, it feels like that standard fan shouting from a hill-top "I OWN THIS FRANCHISE!" or crying foul over every change and the fact the notes are so filled with them makes it kind of hard to focus on the story, especially when right at the beginning it just goes on and on to the point where I honestly am not sure if I even want to read the story.'

Bio: You're not calling us toxic, but from that bit, it sounds like you are calling us toxic. You think we feel entitled to this series? We just call out extremely piss poor writing, which sums up the majority of this trilogy.

Zer0: That's all the sequels tried, diversity, literally from the entirety of The Last Jedi other than the Canto Bight scene, I barely saw an alien. Sure the series has always had the main characters being humans but that's because you can understand them better. You do realize you read the story then notes, or at least our final notes for the chapter. The beginning is mainly responses we do.

Bio: We barely had any supporting alien characters apart from Chewie. Maz doesn't count since she barely appears in the films.

Zer0: There is a difference between a strong woman (Like Wonder Woman, Alita, Ridley, Leia, Ahsoka, etc.) and forced women (Rey, Captain Marvel, Silver from that stupid Angry Birds 2. I do not care if it is a cartoon it does not excuse bad writing.). I bet you if I went online right now and made a poll, out of all the trilogies the ST would be the least liked. Change isn't bad, but it has to be executed right, not lazy or just simply bad writing. Yes we are going to rant (Most likely stop after the second movie) and show the glaring problems of this trilogy. My subjective 'opinion' is pretty worldly agreed on. I'm also sorry to say this but your treasure has a lot of smudges on it, and I mean a lot.

Bio: Literally just type Sequel Trilogy on YouTube and you'll find more reviews and vids trashing them than praising them. Cause their writing is poor, their marketing is poor, everything that isn't the production value of the films themselves is poor.

Zer0: When a video for TLJ is talking about how great it is, it's only just saying that they loved it, not why it's great or better then the Force Awakens or the OT. It's their opinion, and if you disagree with them you're automatically a man baby or sexist, racist, some other work with ist at the end. We're not writing about some diversity, or Female Empowerment, or Men be dumb and women be smart. We're writing about a Fictional Universe that people can enjoy, with Lizard men, space wizards with Lightsabers (Not laser swords.), and fucking DRAGONS. (Sorry everyone, I love dragons.)

Bio: And let me put it this way: Who the hell thought that 'The Force is Female' shirt was a good idea? That alone should be a sign of their priorities when it came to the ST. They didn't want to tell an amazing story to expand on the already fantastic lore. No, they sought to push an agenda, to check off crap from a list rather than create meaningful characters and moments. Say what you will about George and the Prequels, but at least he sought to tell a story. And despite the bumps, it was a story with a consistent message and theme. Consistency isn't something this new trilogy has going for them.

Zer0: To everybody reading this, I already wrote my stance on anything in my last chapter of A Devil's Justice (Or the second chapter I think), go read it if you like DMC or DC.

'Well that and it goes on for so long with attempts at humor, is completely unrelated and we also are aware you are a single person so the back-and-forth feels like a major time waster.'

Bio: ...Again. I'm fucking real, pal.

Zer0: Sorry Creator, before we couldn't take any of this seriously. This…..this just…..Wow. I don't know a lot of Author's who write imaginary people (I'm not saying there isn't, but who jumps to the conclusion that they are imaginary?) but who have collabs.

'Overall? This chapter was like the other one, it was just okay.'

Bio: And I say this review was just like the other one. Poorly explained and at times, made no fucking sense.

Zer0: And I'm sorry Creator, but I'm not sugar coating it. If you don't like this story, we're not gonna stop you, the door is right over there. Hate to break it to you but losing you is not gonna affect us. We got people who like our story that build characters and can improve on others. Yeah we can admit we have an advantage because we have a show to do as well. Hell, I bet we could make three movies of rework and still do an awesome job.

Bio: Little something called respecting the past and learning from it. Not tearing it down as if it never existed or mattered in some nihilistic BS like Rian did.

Zer0: Sure, you can argue not everyone is gonna make long ass paragraphs because apparently Criticism is dying or something. I don't think everyone wants to write long ass reviews, and we're not going to force them to do it. You can write another long review but we're not gonna respond back to it. This is our first and last response. So don't bother, and don't throw a hissy fit if we don't, we saw your long AN about Lil'Sonic and honestly, yeah you said it was unprofessional but if you get like that because someone didn't respond to you the first time, then I'm not gonna waste time, no review response, no PM response, nothing.

Bio: What I read from you makes the stuff we said about Rian and Episode VIII look like a picnic.

Zer0: If you don't like our story, more power to you. If you like the ST, again, more power to you.

Bio: But don't expect us to just sit here and ignore all the glaring problems this trilogy had. And let me tell you, this trilogy is much like many works of film. Nothing is perfect...unless it's The Godfather. That is a fucking masterpiece, and I will fight anyone who disagrees.

Zer0: We may have said our story can be better than the ST, that doesn't make it perfect. It's fucking FanFiction, not dissing anyone here, I've seen dudes write a few paragraphs of Madara raping Hinata and then burning her alive…..and I still think that is the most fucked up Fanfic of all time. We know you don't mean to call us toxic, but you do make it sound like that. That's like me saying, we're not calling you an asshole, but you have shades of being an asshole. We're telling Rian to fuck off, not kill himself. No matter how much of a piece of shit he is (And yes he is one), he doesn't need to die, no one does just because of a bad movie. But they need to see that they are forcing an agenda. Sure we got an Agenda, just to remind people of how awesome Star Wars is.

Bio: I mostly dislike Rian because of how unprofessional he's been when it came to the backlash of his movie. Again, take the legitimate criticism, and use it to better your stories/movies. He didn't. And if you look up anything pertaining to that, you'll see how he is the toxic one in this whole equation.

Zer0: I think we have gone far enough. Creator I hope you can understand not everyone shares your POV and respect that, just as we will respect yours and not stop you from leaving or change our ways. We want a story we can enjoy and be satisfied with, while also making others happy.

(Turns to the others)

Not just the men, but the women, and the children too! YOU ARE ALL FANS AND WE LOVE YOU! Also follow BioshockerN7 and his fellow Authors. They are known as the Multiversers who….pretty much go to any fictional universe.

Bio: Though it's been a LONG time since I've actually updated anything for my stories. Mostly undergoing reworks and such.

Zer0: Pretty cool stuff they do. Also we promise we won't make long AN, the chapters are long but we want to make it good, so shorter AN and not so big responses. Not meaning to sound rude but it just leaves more to read. Though everytime I read other stories its surprisingly shorter then I imagined. With that, please review, pm for ideas, and remember: The Force will be with you.

Bio: Always.

Zer0: (Speaks in demonic force) I swear to Tala, Saiya. You better be posting some stories once this is updated. BORDERLANDS. (Switches to innocent child) Okay bye.