Baramon, New Republic Capitol, Inquisitorial Fortress:

Rey enters a chamber, she is alone. Her one eye yellow, the other hidden behind the metallic patch. She stops in the middle of the room and a podium rises out of the floor, opens and reveals the Sith Holocron ( from my rewrite of Ep9 ). Rey's surrounding darkens and then light slowly returns, she is in a cave on Korriban, pools of lava and a throne. As she turns to face the throne, the spirit of Darth Sidious rests upon it. Rey takes a knee and lowers her head.

"Master" she says.

"Rise, young one" Sidious says. "Assaj Zahn, how goes your quest?"

Rey Skywalker is her old personality. In secret, she is indeed Assaj Zahn, Lady of the Sith.

Rey gets back on her feet. "There is treachery and weakness hiding in every shadow. Betrayal hides behind every corner. The Inquisition is hard pressed to uphold stability and order across the Republic."

Sidious nods. "As I told you, old friend. The Republic could not stop corruption, even with the help of the Jedi. As the Inquisition will not succeed with the help of this new Republic. Only a firm hand can bring order to the galaxy. And that, my friend, requires strength and determination. Both of which you possess in abundance, Lady Zahn."

"I will not give up so easily" Rey/Zahn says. "Your empire failed. The First Order failed. The Republic will not. My Republic will not fail as long as the Inquisition keeps its strong and secure. And through them both, the Sith will not fail."

"And how, young apprentice, will you ensure this outcome?"

"I have removed the most dangerous enemies within the Republic that could stand against me" Rey/Zahn says. "It is now time to remove the most dangerous threats outside the Republic."

Sidious leans forward. "You intend to start a war."

"I will follow your example, master. The war will eliminate all my enemies, foreign and domestic, and allow me to place loyal and trusted allies on key positions within the Republic. I will be unchallenged and the Sith will prevail."

Sidious leans into his throne. "Good. Very good. But, I am curious how you intend to win your war. Your Republic is not strong enough for such an endevour. It lacks… resolve."

"I have a secret weapon."

This peaks Sidious interest. "Go on."

"In the Republic archives, I found the old plans stolen by the rebellion. My weapon is not as grand as your design, master. But it will do. No one will dare stand against me. And with your guidance, I will make sure that all those who are sensitive to the Force are kept safe. With your guidance, master, I will bring order to the galaxy."

Rey/Zahn kneels and bows her head. Sidious begins to laugh, a chilling and sinister laughter that echoes in the cave.

Planet of Bracca:

The manure-hauler flies in towards the planet. Soon, it is flying across the ship-graveyards. Below them, old ships are cut to pieces and salvaged. We see ships from every previous Star Wars movie. The hauler flies past dockyards where new ships are built. Eventually they touch down on a landing-platform close to small town located in the middle of broken up old ship.

A carry-all, a small flyer that moves large debris with tow-cables, moves a large section of a ship over the ship-graveyard. Jannah is the pilot.

"D-O" Jannah calls back over her shoulder, and the tiny droid D-O replies. "The dorsal compensator is falling behind again."

D-O responds and extends a small robotic arm and hooks up to a socket. The carry-all flies over to a salvage-site where workers and droids are waiting to chop the large piece up into usable parts. Jannah unhooks her cargo and moves on. Jannah flies low past the massive carcasses until she lands in a small hangarbay. She and D-O exits the carry-all and are greated by BB-8.

"The cables are acting up again, BB-8" Jannah says, removing goggles and gloves. "I told you we need them fixed. If we cant carry maximum weight, we wont get payed. And if we wont get payed, we're out of business." BB-8 beeps and chirps. "What is it?" Jannah wonders.

BB-8 turns to look at the far end of the bay, and as Jannah looks that way, she sees Chewie stepping through the doorway.

Jannah's appartment is part of the hangarbay, her balcony overlooking her carry-all as she has made a section of the workshop her home. Everyone has gathered in the small living-room.

"It's a bold plan" Jannah says. "Sharing what the droids know. They got it all stored in their memory. I haven't tampered with any of it."

Tyl feels hopefull. "Then you'll help us. You'll go back with us to Senator Tico."

"Haven't you heard?" Jannah asks.

"Heard what?" Kyle wonders.

Jannah looks at them. "Rose was arrested. The Inquisition announced it the other day. She's accused of colaborating with the Core Alliance."

Tyl smacks the wall out of frustration. Chewie hangs his head and pulls his hands through his hair.

"All the more reason to go through with this" Amee says, conviction in her voice. "We still have the droids. We still have the information stored inside of them."

Kyle gets on his feet. "Amee's right. We can still expose what happened at Griefalnak."

Bayl nods. "If we can show what Skywalker did that day, it will make people question her every decision ever since. We must try."

Tyl, hands on his hips, sighs. "The only senators I trust are the ones currently held prisoners on Exogol. Anyone else, senator or otherwise, is a potential spy or informant working for the Inquisition. I dont trust anyone outside of this room."

Amee is not about to give up. "Do we need to trust anyone else?" she asks. "How can we get the information out to the people?"

Chewie has a suggestion and Tyl nods. "The general's right. If we hook up to the holo-network we could transmitt the data across the entire Republic. We would reach everyone."

Acklin strokes his five o'clock shade. "Those relays are heavily guarded by Republic troops. The Ministry of Information keeps a close eye on that network. They're kinda touchy about their monopoly on propaganda."

Chewie expresses his thoughts and Tyl grins. "The general says he's broken into places far more heavily guarded than any Republic facility. He'll get us in."

"Then we have a plan" Bayl says, sounding optimistic. "A good plan. One the Inquisition will hardly expect us to put into action."

Tyl nods in agreement. "Yeah… This might actually work."

Fate gets on his feet. "This plan is the plan with the highest probability of success that I have been part of for the past three years."

Tyl takes offense. "Hey! Shut up."

They all exit Jannah's home/workshop/hangar and walk over to her speeder. She puts a large backpack in its backseat. That's when BB-8 starts to beep frantically.

"What's the matter, little guy?" Jannah wonders.

Overheard, four Inquisitorial shuttles fly into view and circle. Two lands, blocking off the street in both directions and unloading Inquisitorial troops and officers. Including, Jaina Skywalker! Chewie roars and the shootout begins.

"Back inside!" Jannah calls out and everyone follows her.

They hurry to the carry-all, covering their retreat with blasters. Everyone climbs inside and Jannah quickly takes off as Jaina and her troops rush into the hangar, looking on as the carry-all makes its escape.

Tyl is not pleased. "How the hell did they find us?!"

Bayl holds on as best he can. "A good question for another time!"

Two of the Inquisitorial shuttles are in hot pursuit of the carry-all, opening fire. Jannah tries her best to avoid the incoming shots, flying out into the ship-graveyard and using the debris for cover. The other two shuttles gain altitude and follow the chase from above.

Jaina enters the cockpit of one of the shuttles and looks down on the ongoing chase. "They wont escape us now" she growls.

The carry-all shakes, throwing everyone around as a wing catches fire. BB-8 hooks up to a socket and activates a fire-suppression system that puts out the fire. Chewie opens a hatch on the the side of the vessel and fires back at the shuttles with his blaster, holding on with one hand.

Jannah operates her controls. "Hold on!" she calls out.

The carry-all launches a cable that attaches itself to a wreck, allowing the carry-all to make a tight turn. She repeats the stunt at another wreck and has now managed to shake her pursuers.

"Nice flying!" Kyle grins.

That's when they take fire from above as the two other shuttles dive down towards them.

Bayl is still holding on. "We're not out of this yet."

Jannah repeats the cable-maneuver.

In her shuttle, Jaina pushes the pilot to the side. "Out of the way!" she growls and grabs the controls. "Lieutenant" she says over the comm-link, "fall back. They're mine."

"Yes, my lady" the reply is heard over the radio.

The other shuttle breaks off. Jaina moves in behind the carry-all. Jaina fires past the carry-all, hitting the wreck and causing them to collapse. Jannah launches a cable and begins a tight turn. Jaina is ready and fires at the wreck the cable is attached to. A large piece of that wreck breaks lose, hanging on to the cable and the carry-all. The weight is too much for one cable and part of the carry-all gets ripped off.

"Hold on!" Jannah calls out. "We're going down!"

The carry-all crashlands in the middle of all the wrecks, everyone onboard getting thrown around. They slowly begin to crawl out of the crashed carry-all and can only look on as the four Inquisitorial shuttles land around them. Soon they are completely surrounded by hostile troops. Jaina leaves her shuttle and walks through the ring of troops and approaches the heroes.

"Chewie" Jaina says, earning a fierce growl from the wookie. "Jannah" she then says, Jannah spitting at the ground by her feet. "You must have known. Deep down, you must have known you would never succeed."

Tyl frowns. "How did you find us?"

Acklin leaves them and joins Jaina. "Sorry, Ol' Grumpy" he tells Chewie, the wookie letting out an angry roar at the betrayal.

Jaina smiles. "Acklin is one of my agents" she tells them. "I put him on Chewies ship to keep an eye on the old wookie. We had people keeping an eye on you too, Jannah. We lost track of you though after you swindled that old Hutt all those years ago. The only one that truly managed to hide from us was Poe. That changed. And now he's dead."

Chewie growls threatingly.

"Why?" Jannah asks. "What's the point? Is there a point to all the killing?"

Jaina frowns. "Only enemies of the Republic have anything to fear from the Inquisition."

"Liar!" Amee cries out and runs up to Jaina.

Jaina reaches out with her hand and Force chokes Amee, stopping her in her tracks.

"Amee!" Kyle calls out.

As blasters are raised by everyone, Jaina raises her voice. "Everyone, settle down! All of you!"

She releases Amee, who fall to her hands and knees and everyone else lowers their blasters.

Jaina looks with determination at our heroes. "Surrender… Or she dies first."

Kyle takes aim at Jaina. "I'd like to see you try, witch!"

Jaina uses the Force to pull Kyle's blaster from his hands into her waiting grasp.

"Last chance" Jaina says.

Chewie growls and tosses his blaster to the ground and the others reluctantly do the same.

"Smart move" Jaina says and hands Kyle's blaster to one of her officers. "Secure them. We're bringing them all. Droids, the wookie, everyone."

Jaina turns and heads for her shuttle as her troops close in on their captives, our heroes all standing with their hands in the air. One by one, the heroes are pushed into cells on the shuttle, the droids are fitted with restraining-bolts and are then shut down and put into the cargo-hold. The shuttles take off and head for the skies.

Jaina is in a small private chamber on the shuttle, her living conditions here are spartan at best. She kneels on the floor and a hologram of Rey appears before her.

"Mother" Jaina says.

"I sense joy in you, my child" Rey says. "You have succeeded."

"I have, mother. The spy, Chewbacca and Jannah are all in my custody. Along with BB-8 and D-O. I have them all."

"Excellent. You have done well, Jaina. I am so very proud of you. Bring them to Exogol. I shall join with you there shortly."

"Yes, mother."

"Good work, Jaina" Rey says with a smile. "I never doubted you."

The hologram fades and Jaina gets up from the floor. But she doesnt look pleased. Rather, Jaina seems concerned.

Baramon, Inquisitorial Fortress:

Rey turns around, her son Ben joining her in her large chambers.

"It is time" Rey says. "Jaina has secured the droids. We can proceed."

"Your ships are ready, mother" Ben says confidently. "Give the order and we will attack the Alliance."

"We will not need to attack" Rey says and moves over to sit in a throne-like chair. "Once my declaration is made, Grand Moff Kabalek will push his advantage in an attempt to quickly overwhelm us. He knows the Alliance fleet is stronger than the Republic counter-part. Once war is declared, Kabalek will attack in force. And we will be ready for him."

Ben smiles cruely. "Tell me what to do."

"It's simple" Rey says. "All you have to do… is to crush the Core Alliance."

To be continued…