POW Barge:
First Order officers assigned to oversee the prison-cells sit by their consoles. Their communicator activates and the senior officer turns on a screen; Finn, dressed as a stormtrooper, is seen on the screen.
"Another batch of POW's" Finn says, hidden behind his helmet.
The senior officers nod. "Alright, bring 'em in."
He reaches over and pushes a button and the security-door opens, leaving only bars to allow the officers to double-check the prisoner-transport. Chewie steps up and uses brute strength to lift the barred door. The officers hurry to draw their blasters, but Froff steps inside and opens fire with a repeater-blaster, spraying the room with blaster-rounds, killing everyone and destroying everything! The others step inside and simply look around at the devastation.
Poe turns to Froff. "Subtle."
Finn steps inside and throws his helmet to the side. "Yeah well, the crew of the Falcon is not known for doing things subtle. BB-8, do your thing."
BB-8 moves past them all and hooks up to a droid-socket. Within seconds, the doors to the prison-section open. Poqmoq and Largo steps in first, guns ready, and shoots a couple of guards in the long corridor. The sudden shootout has all prisoners on their feet and running up to the cell-doors. Then, the doors open and they all step outside. As Rose leaves the cell, Poe and Finn are there to greet her. Both Finn and Poe are surprised as Rose throws herself in Finn's arms and hugs him. She realizes its an awkward moment and backs away.
"Great job, guys" Rose says, trying not to sound emotional. "So what's next?"
"We take over the ship" Finn says.
"How?" Rose asks.
Chewie growls and everyone turns to look at the fully armed to the teeth crew of the Millennium Falcon, standing ready to continue with the mission, weapons resting against their shoulders; a proper hero-shot.
Kylo versus Rey:
Rey and Kylo are still fighting, their lightsaber cutting through equipment, furniture, walls and floors. The fight leaves the lounge and enters the hangar-bay, the fight going on around Kylos TIE Fighter and Reys FT-6 Pike fighter, with R2 taking cover not to get caught in the melee. The FT-6's blaster-cannons on a wing gets chopped off at one point, then as their blades get locked, the blades cut into the solar-panels of Kylos fighter and Rey pushes Kylo back, both blades cutting the solar-panels and leaving a bright yellow trail of molten metal. The railings around the platform get cut and severed. As the lightsabers strike the force-field by the open hangar-bay door the force-field flashes blue. Eventually, Kylo manages to rip Rey's lightsaber from her hands and throws it away. He goes after her with his weapon, forcing Rey to duck out of the way time and time again until she too manages to disarm Kylo and as the lightsaber bounces on the floor, she uses the Force to push it away down a level.
Without lightsabers, it's a fists on fists brawl, combined with kicks and Force powers. They throw stuff at one another, ducking and rolling to avoid getting hit. In the end, they end up Force Choking one another, trying to overpower the other. Slowly, they both fall to their knees, hands extended and griping each throat through the Force. They both fall over, exhausted, panting, barely able to stay awake.
"Why?" Rey asks between heavy breaths. "Why are you doing this?"
Kylo takes a moment to catch his breath. "Because… Because you were going to have a normal life… You were not going to become a Jedi. Just a normal child, with a normal life. You were going to have everything I sacrificed. Everything I was forced to give up. Everything my parents denied me when they sent me to uncle Luke's academy. All I had was to become a Jedi. To learn the secrets of the Force. To become as powerful as I ever could be. When uncle Luke decided not to teach you, he started to doubt himself, he started to doubt his ability to teach. He started to doubt me. Doubt my abilities. He refused to let me grow, to let me learn the greater secrets of the Force. I had devoted my entire life to becoming a Jedi! And he took it all away from me! I gave him everything and he turned his back on me! He threw me to the side like garbage! He held me back! He doubted my abilities! He took my loyalty, my devotion, all my hard work and threw it away and spat me in the face!"
Rey slowly sits up as she listens to Kylo. "I get it… You devoted your life to become a Jedi… and then my father began to question it all… He gave up on you. And on top of it, I was going to have what you never had… a normal life. No wonder Creel could turn you. I get it, I do. You blamed your parents for all the experiences you were never going to have. And you blamed my father for the power you were never going to achieve. Powers you were denied. A life you could never have. And once in the grip of the Dark Side, there was no turning back. And now it dominates your destiny."
"There is so much more" Kylo says. "The Dark Side is so much more than hatred and anger. It goes beyond fear and control. It is power, Leanna. The power to do what ever you want. To control your own destiny. I can show you. I can show you what no Jedi ever could."
"How?"
Kylo retrieves the holocron from a pocket in his belt and holds it out in his palm. "The holocron will help you understand. It contains no lies, only truth." The holocron is moved with the Force from Kylo's hand to hover in front of Rey. "Take it. Trust me, Leanna. It wont harm you. It will only show you the truth."
Rey has her eyes locked on the holocron.
POW Barge:
A large room on the ship hosts officers and stormtroopers, crewmen operating consoles and stations. At the far end, a door opens and a stormtroopers steps inside. Some of the crew look up and then return to their duties. The stormtrooper takes a moment and looks around, then gives a wave at the door. The crew of the Millennium Falcon charges in, guns blazing, followed by a bunch of freed prisoners armed with stormtrooper-blasters; they take the crew of the POW Barge by complete surprise.
Phasma enters the bridge of the ship, followed by six stormtroopers.
"Captain" an officer on the bridge says. "The prisoners have escaped and are trying to take over the ship."
"Lock down the bridge" Phasma says. "Call in reinforcements from the Xiphos. I will hold them off."
"Yes, captain."
Phasma and the stormtroopers heads for the exit and as the door opens, Phasma finds herself face to face with Chewie; Chewies bowcaster is aimed from the hip, Phasma looks up at Chewie who growls and fires, sending Phasma flying across the bridge. The crew of the Falcon, followed by the freed prisoners, charge the bridge, gun down the stormtroopers and some of the crew. A handful of crew and officers surrender and are taken prisoner.
Finn walks over to Phasma and looks down at her. She is still alive.
"FN-2187." Phasma struggles to say the numbers.
"Finn" Finn says. "My name is Finn" and he shoots her.
Poe takes a look around, stormtrooper-blaster held against his shoulder, he nods with a smile. "The ship is ours."
The soldiers of the Republic cheer and embrace! Rose walks up to Finn with a smile and gives him another hug. Poe kneels next to BB-8 and pats him on the head.
Kylo versus Rey:
Rey is still focused on the holocron.
Kylo studies her. "Take it. That's all you have to do. Take it and judge for yourself. Or will you be as ignorant as the Jedi want you to be? Afraid to learn the truth?"
The holocron moves and ends up in Rey's hand and she takes it.
All of sudden, Rey finds herself in a great hall, a throne-room with First Order banners and Knights of Ren symbols ( it is Creels throne-room on the First Order homeworld that we saw in my version of The Force Awakens ).
"What is this?" Rey says.
"What would have been, had your cousin not rejected your father" a frightening voice says. Rey spins around and finds herself face to face with the Sith Ghost of Darth Sidious. Sidious extends his hand towards a point beyond Rey. "Behold what would have taken place."
"Jacen Solo!" a chilling and familiar voice calls out.
Rey turns around and sees Supreme Leader Creel stepping down from his throne. Jacen Solo, dressed in the robes of a Jedi, armed with a green lightsaber, moves across the throne-room.
Creels face twists with a massive frown. "As arrogant as your uncle! You think you can come here and challenge me?!"
"I do not fear you" Jacen says. "Fear is the path to the Dark Side."
"You may not be afraid of me now, young Jedi" Creel says, "but you will be… You will be."
Creel ignites his purple lightsaber and attacks Jacen. Rey watches as the fight goes on together with the Sith Ghost. Jacen parries a blow from Creel and uses his cross-guard to cut through Creels staff/lightsaber; as Creels weapon is destroyed, Jacen uses the advantage to the fullest and cuts Creel from shoulder to hip across the torso with a single blow. Creel falls dead to the floor in two pieces and Jacen shuts down his lightsaber.
The scenery changes in an instant and Rey finds herself looking at Luke's Jedi Academy, intact, a beautiful summers-day. A couple of shuttles flies past overhead, speeders moving to and from the academy.
Sidious steps up behind Rey. "Witness what would have come to pass" he says chillingly.
Rey sees Luke Skywalker walking over a ridge, smiling and waving. Rey turns and sees herself walking up to Luke, a small ship on a landing-pad below the hill. Rey in the vision walks up to Luke and they embrace in a loving hug.
"Leanna!" a mans voice calls out.
Luke and Rey in the vision, along with Actual Rey, turn to look. Having just left the ship is a young man in his early twenties, carrying a small child, a boy of one years old. He walks the hill and Vision Rey runs to meet him, kisses the man and then picks up the boy. Actual Rey is at a loss, unable to take in what she is seeing. The family walks up to Luke, Vision Rey carrying the small boy.
"Ben" Vision Rey says. "This is your grandfather."
Vision Rey and her husband begin to play with the child. Actual Rey reaches out after them, a tear falling from her eyes, unable to say anything, unable to wrap her mind around what she is actually presented with. Then, Luke turns to look directly at her. Darth Sidious hisses like a viper and withdraws, fading into nothing and vanishes into veils of smoke.
"You should not be here" Luke says, looking straight at Actual Rey. "You have to leave."
Actual Rey doesn't know what to do, what to say, what to think.
Luke calls out angrily at her, "NOW!" and uses the Force to Force Push her.
Rey is pulled from the vision, the holocron falling to the floor and bouncing a couple of times. She breathes heavily, trying to understand what she has seen, what she has experienced. She looks up and finds Kylo Ren standing not far from her.
"I can feel your anger" Kylo says. "At last you understand. Your hatred will make you more powerful than you could possibly imagine. You can feel it, as can I. The wrath of the Dark Side will grant you everything you ever dreamed of. That is the promise of the Sith."
Rey slowly gets back on her feet and looks at her cousin, and hate can be clearly seen radiating from her eyes. In hiding, carefully watching Kylo and Rey, is R2D2; he goes back into hiding and extends a small antenna that begins to spin.
POW Barge:
A First Order shuttle, used to collect escape-pods and ejected pilots, docks with the mothership, lowers its boarding-ramp and four stormtroopers escort twelve prisoners onto the larger vessel.
"Move it, Republic scum" one of the troopers says.
But then, they are faced with the hangar-bay filled with armed Republic crewmen, pilots and soldiers, together with Finn and Poe.
Poe picks the weapon from one of the stormtroopers. "Sorry, guys. I guess we forgot to tell you before you docked, but this ship now belongs to the Republic."
The stormtroopers spot two dozen other stormtroopers and a handful of First Order pilots and officers on their knees, with hands behind their backs and held at gunpoint in the middle of the hangar-bay by the Republic forces. The recent captives are moved over to the others.
"Two more transports coming in" Poe says. "Then we've got 'em all."
Finn nods. "We should send them back out and pick up what survivors we can."
"Good idea" Poe says. "But we can't stay here for too long. Sooner or later we'll be discovered and this barge was never meant to go head to head with a Star Destroyer."
BB-8 rolls up to Poe and Finn and beeps frantically.
"What's wrong?" Finn asks.
Poe seems both confused and worried. "He says he's picked up a signal from R2D2. He says that Rey has turned to the Dark Side."
Moments later, Finn walks with determined strides through the corridors, followed by Poe and Rose as he enters a small hangar-bay where a shuttle is waiting. Finn is wearing trousers belonging to a First Order officer and pulls the jacket on, not buttoning it.
"What ever you're gonna do" Poe says, "you wont have long. We can't stay here much longer. We have even less time with the risk of you getting caught."
"I know" Finn says, determination in his eyes.
Rose hands him a data-stick. "This stick has Captain Phasma's personal clearance-code attached to it" she says. "It will make it look like you're her courier."
Finn takes the stick and is about to get onboard the shuttle.
"Get her out of there as fast as you can" Poe says.
"Finn!" Rose says and places a foot on the boarding-ramp. "Be careful."
"Always" Finn says and enters the shuttle and Rose steps away.
The boarding-ramp closes and the airlock shuts. The shuttle leaves the POW Barge and heads for Kylo Rens personal Star Destroyer. Finn is in the cockpit, his uniform still not buttoned.
Kylo versus Rey:
Kylo extends his hand to Rey. "Join with me. Together, we could rule this galaxy! You could have everything you've ever wanted!"
"All I ever wanted" Rey says through grinding teeth, "You Took From Me!"
Rey extends her hand and her lightsaber is pulled to her; as she grips it, it ignites with one blade and she attacks Kylo! Unarmed, Kylo ducks and dodges each strike. Rey's wild swings strikes everything around them, leaving deep, glowing marks. Kylo uses the Force to move the FT-6 fighter in between him and Rey. As he jumps down one level to his personal shuttle, Rey leaps over the fighter. Kylo lands and pulls his own lightsaber to him and as Rey lands behind him, their blades clash once more!
POW Barge:
Poe follows Rose to a docking-bay on the ship.
"Here she is" Rose says as she directs Poe to a captured SF-17 bomber, parts of the crew standing next to the bomber. The bomber itself has on its side painted onto it a cartoon Gundark wrestling with a First Order pilot. "Her hyperdrive took a direct hit during the battle. The shield-generator is fried. She lost both gun-turrets and gunners. But…"
"She's got a full payload" a female says off screen. Poe and Rose turn around. "Captain Clara Beylor" the bombers captain says, her one arm in bandages and unable to use it. "Commanding officer on the Brawling Gundark. Silver Squadron."
"Commander Poe Dameron, Black Leader. Will she fly, captain?"
"She will fly, commander" Captain Beylor says without hesitation. "She's taken a beating, but she's tough. We were heading straight for a Star Destroyer when we took some hits from an ion-cannon that fried our power-distribution system. Took some more damage from the tractor-beam. But we've worked hard, Rose here was a lot of help, and the First Order were nice enough to lend us some spare parts. More importantly, we've got a full payload of forty-two proton-bomb, ready to be dropped on an enemy target."
Poe grins wide. "Oh, don't you worry, captain. We've got a target that will suit this baby just fine." Poe picks up his communicator. "Chewie, we're good to go down here."
Up on the bridge, the crew of the Falcon have taken control of the ship, with Chewie as the new captain. Chewie roars and growls commands and his alien crew reply in their own languages as they steer the ship.
To be continued…
So I'm trying to explain what took place between Luke and Jacen, what made Jacen join Creel and why Luke ended up creating Kylo Ren. Instead of Ben Solo seeing Luke almost kill him, Jacen Solo realizes that his entire life, devoted to the Jedi, was for nothing when Luke begins to doubt his teachings. And to make things worse, when his cousin wont become a Jedi and get to live a normal life, Jacen gets jealous that Leanna will have all the things that Jacen was forced to give up. So he begins to blame his parents for all the things he will never experience, and he blames his uncle for all the power he will never achieve. And that is when Creel seduces him to the Dark Side. But what about Rey in this What If Scenario of Episode 9? Well, Kylo is really playing on all the anger and frustration Rey has felt over the years of Jakku, on all the emotions of being abandoned and longing for being loved. And Rey can't fight it; Kylo Ren is responsible for all the torments in her life. She hates him with a vengeance. And of course, when Darth Sidious shows her what could have been, in another life… Well, Rey is in trouble.