Baramon, New Republic Capitol, Inquisitorial Fortress:

The Inquisitorial shuttle flies in towards the planet and later flies in over a large city. It lands on a platform belonging to a fortress and Jaina leaves it together with her troops and their prisoner, Poe Dameron.

Jaina walks on her own through the halls of the fortress, when a voice stops her.

"Back so soon?"

Jaina turns and a young man, only a few years older, walks up to her. Him too dressed in the armor and cloak of the Inquisition. This is Ben Skywalker.

"I'm back to deliver a gift to mother" Jaina says.

"Interesting. What sort of gift?"

"Why so curious, Ben?" Jaina wonders. "Worried that mother will favor me now?"

"Hardly" Ben says. "Mother knows you can not be trusted."

Jaina frowns. "I have done everything she's ever asked of me."

Ben nods. "Yes, I know. But you have always doubted her orders, haven't you, little sister? You follow orders, but you cant help but question them. Am I right? If I can sense it, mother surely can as well."

"I have never doubted mother" Jaina growls. "I have never questioned her, ever!"

Ben smiles. "Of course you haven't. I guess that is why I'm the favorite."

"We will see" Jaina says and moves on.

They both enter a large chamber, advisors and officers talking everywhere. They make it across the huge room until they reach a lone woman by a row of windows, watching the Senate Building in the distance. This woman is REY SKYWALKER. Rey keeps looking at the Senate Building. Her one eye is still covered by a metal patch, her face badly burned, her remaining eye clearly yellow.

"A nest of vipers" Rey says, looking at the Senate Building. "The source of all corruption within the Republic. Senator is just another word for criminal. Traitor. Enemy."

"Mother" Jaina says and falls to a knee with head lowered. "I bring you a gift."

Rey turns to look over her shoulder. "The spy? No, I can sense he got away. You have brought me nothing of worth." Rey sighs. "Disapointing."

"It is true" Jaina says, "I failed in finding the spy. But, I found who he was looking for."

Rey turns now in full. "The coded message. You found whom it was ment for?"

Jaina smiles. "Commodore Poe Dameron."

"Poe?" Rey says, surprised. "Off course" she then says. "You brought him here?"

"Yes, mother. He is here."

Poe is secured with chains, forced to stand with arms and legs stretched out in the shape of an X. Rey enters the cell alone. Poe, beaten and bruised, looks up.

"Hello, Poe" Rey says.

"Rey... It's been a while."

"Yes, it has" Rey nods. "I'm told you work at a tavern these days."

"I did" Poe says. "Until your brat of a kid put me here."

"This is very curious" Rey says. "Why did Rose send her agent to find you? There could only be one reason, but you have no proof. You can not prove anything that happened. Or can you?"

"No" Poe shakes his head. "No, I cant. And I had no plans on helping her either."

"You lie" Rey is quick to cut in. "You fought it. The urge to do the right thing. But in the end, you always loose that fight, Poe. Being the underdog, fighting impossible odds, that is who you are. That is why you managed to destroy the Starkiller. You fought the urge, but you wanted to help Rose. I can feel it."

"What do you want?" Poe asks. "A guy came to me with a message from Rose. Thats it. Nothing else happened."

Rey walks up to Poe. "Chewie? You were gonna take them to Chewie? But why? What difference does it make? What could he prove that you can not? What proof does he..." Rey suddenly realizes how it all could go against her. "The droids" she then says. "Chewie has the droids. Or he knows where they are. With Jannah, off course."

"We should have exposed you long ago" Poe snarls. "We should have told everyone what a monster you had become."

"A monster?" Rey says, actually in disbelief. "Without me, the New Republic would have succumbed to chaos. I hunt down all those who would destroy what we have built. What we fought for. What Finn died for! The corrupt, the criminal, everyone who seeks to work against our goal to create peace. To bring order to the galaxy. You think we can create that without getting blood on our hands? You think good intentions is enough? You think a good heart, a pure heart, is all that is needed? What is needed, Poe, is determination. Resolve. The will to do whatever is necessary to bring about law and order. To never hesitate to protect the Republic from all its enemies. You call me a monster? History will judge me as the savior of the galaxy."

"You've gone insane. Finn didnt die for this. This is not what he fought for, Rey. He fought against tyranny. He fought against the First Order. And if he was alive, he would fight the Inquisition. Just like Rose."

"And just like you?" Rey wonders. "Brave Poe Dameron, who ran away and crawled into a bottle and took work in a tavern. You knew you could not fight me. You knew that what I did, had to be done. The Core Alliance was forced out of the sector. They had to accept peace. And we've had peace since then."

"At what cost, Rey?" Poe wonders. "What you did killed..."

"What I did saved hundreds of thousands of lives!" Rey quickly counters. "I prevented millions of troops from being deployed into battle. I prevented fleets of ships and their crews from being destroyed. I saved countless lives. And what I did, preserved the Republic."

"What you did, Rey... What you have done ever since... is gutting the Republic. You are a poison, slowly draining the Republic of its values, its purpose. The Inquisition is eating away at the core of the Republic, corrupting its very soul."

"Poetic" Rey sneers. "Does Rose share these views? She must be. Why else seek you out. She's more dangerous than I realized."

"She will stop you" Poe says. "You know how she is. She'll never stop until you've been exposed."

Rey nods. "I know... You're right. You're absolutely right."

Rey activates her lightsaber, a bright red blade, and impales Poe through the chest! Poe is in chock in his moment of death. Rey pulls the blade free and Poe hangs limp in the chains. The lightsaber is deactivated and Rey watches Poe's dead body.

"No one will stand in my way" Rey says. "No one."

She turns and leaves the cell, leaving Poe's body behind her, hanging limp from the chains.

Baramon, New Republic Capitol, Diplomatic Block:

A protocol-droid places a datapad before Rose where she sits by her workdesk. Rose reads it, sighs and shakes her head. She looks up at an advisor.

"Still no word from Tyl?" Rose asks.

"I'm sorry, senator, but no" the advisor says. "Not yet."

Rose sighs. "Damn it. He should have made contact with Poe by now."

"If Commodore Dameron is still alive" the advisor points out.

"Poe doesnt die easily" Rose says. "No, he's still alive."

"All we can do is wait, I'm afraid." Rose nods. "I know, I know. It's just frustrating. The Inquisition must be stopped. It can't go on like this. Even the Senate fears Rey and her agents. It has to stop. If we are to have any chance of lasting peace with the Core Alliance, something needs to be done about the Inquisition."

At that point, the door opens and in walks Ben Skywalker together with six Inquisitorial troopers.

"What is the meaning of this?" Rose demands.

"Senator Rose Tico" Ben says with a smirk. "By order given by high command of the Republic Inquisition, you are to be arrested for high treason."

"Treason?" Rose says, smiles and shakes her head. "On what grounds?"

Ben walks up to Rose. "Conspiracy to falsely accuse the Inquisition of missuse of power, falsifying evidence to support said conspiracy and thereby through these actions put the Republic at the mercy of her enemies. Tell me, senator... Have you not had a great many communications with members of the Core Alliance government of late?"

"This is absurd!" Rose snarls. "I have spoken with the Alliance to preserve the peace. Nothing else! And you know damn well that your mother missuse her mandate. The Inquisition is a rogue agency operating outside the boundaries of the law. And you must be stopped."

Ben smiles. "You are part of a dangerous conspiracy to undermine the security of the Republic, and a traitor." He glances at his troops. "Take her away."

The troopers grabs Rose and shackles her.

The advisor steps up. "This is an outrage! You can't do this!"

Ben reaches out with his hand and Force Chokes the advisor and raises him into the air.

"No!" Rose calls out. "Stop it!"

Ben releases the advisor who falls to the floor. He smiles at Rose and walks past her and as he does, the troopers drags Rose with them as they follow Ben.

The advisor, holding his throat, looks up from the floor. "Where are you taking her?!"

Ben answers over shoulder without turning around. "To Exogol."

The door closes.

Baramon, New Republic Capitol, the Senate Building:

Rey enters the office of the Chancellor.

"Ah, Lady Skywalker" the chancellor says.

"Chancellor" Rey says as she walks over to the desk.

"Is it true? Have you arrested Senator Tico?"

"Yes" Rey says cold and to the point. "We have discovered that she conspired against the Republic. Her reasons will be revealed. She can not hide her intentions from us. No one can."

The chancellor sighs and shakes his head. "There are enemies behind every corner. Hiding in every shadow."

"The Inquisition is here to serve" Rey assures the chancellor.

"I suppose you have heard the news from the border regions?" the chancellor then says. "Tension is mounting along the border with the Core Alliance. Alliance ships raid borderworlds and hijack cargoship. They are pushing for war. Grand Moff Kabalek is growing increasingly aggressive."

"The Grand Moff thinks we are weak, chancellor" Rey says. "He knows we have trouble with pirates, smugglers and criminals. He knows the people are afraid of these marauders, he knows they are angry with the senate for not dealing with these issues. Our only option is to show strength. I am well aware that I urged for peace with the Alliance ten years ago. But, sadly, I have been proven wrong. War is our only option. As I should have realized back then."

"We are not ready for a war, Lady Inquisitor" the chancellor explains. "We patrol the border to the Zygerrian Empire. We patrol our own systems to keep the Hutts in check. We reinforce our troops to counter the hostilities of the Alliance. Unrest forces us to station troops on previously peaceful planets. If Kabalek wants to attack, now is the time. And we must convince him to not do it. Peace must prevail."

"Peace?" Rey says, clearly not in agreement. "Peace with the Core Alliance? The last remnants of the old Empire. Old Imperial officers, former Imperial governors, murderers and thieves, tyrants and criminals. You want peace with them, chancellor?"

"No... But we cant risk a war at this time."

Rey is clearly upset. "Grand Moff Kabalek has made little effort to hide his feelings about my kind. About me and my children. The Alliance, on Kabaleks orders, hunts down and kills Force sensitives. Children are killed, murdered, slaughtered, because they are in touch with the Force."

"Kabalek remembers how the Jedi and the Sith burned down the galaxy. Alderaan is reduced to rubble. The Knights of Ren destroyed an entire starsystem. The children are innocent, off course they are, but you have to remember that..."

"It Is Genocide!" Rey growls, her outburst has objects flung across the room as the Force pushes out violently. She calms herself somewhat. "He fears what he doesnt understand. The Force is the one thing that can unite us all. It can guide us into the future. It can give us lasting peace. But instead, Kabalek and the Alliance hunts down and murders young children, if they only suspect them of having the slightest connection with the Force. It is my kind they hunt, chancellor. It is my kind they slaughter. We can not have peace with the Core Alliance. Not now, not ever. If it is peace we want, then we must destroy the Alliance."

The chancellor sighs. "But how?"

Rey is cold in her response. "Leave that to me."

To be continued...