"Where is he?" Poe asked as he looked over at me from whirled around in almost 180 degrees. I looked at him in shock now as we left Lando there to pay his respects to my mother.

"Who?" I asked.

"Finn, where did he go?" Poe asked in a rush as he looked like an idea struck his brain.

"Last I saw, he was over by Rey's old studying spot, why?" I asked him, seeing Poe look past me int he direction where I mentioned where Finn could be. He smiled with determination, looking back at me now directly in the eyes.

"I know what to do."

"What?" I asked in shock as he walked past me, having me try to keep up with him as we were weaving our way through the crowd. The spot where I mention Finn could be, Rey's old studying spot, was tucked in the corner and almost nearly out of sight. But we both saw Finn there, coming out from the darkness and walking over to us with the same determination as Poe did. The smaller droid with the one wheel that BB-8 befriended rolled right behind him to keep up. Luckily they both met right in the middle.

"I gotta talk to you about something—" Finn started, but Poe cut him off

"I gotta talk to you about something," Poe explained ton him as they were facing each other, "I can't face this alone. I need you in command with me," I looked at him in shock now as Finn spoke now in a rush.

"Look this droid has…thank you. I appreciate that" Finn said suddenly from the recent news. Poe nodded his head at him once.

"General," Poe said to him, using his new title

"General," Finn said, then he stopped and looked over at me with a raised eyebrow now as he pointed to me, "You're General too?"

I paused, looking confused since Poe was looking at me too for some kind of answer. Maybe he was hopeful as I raised both hands in a sign of surrender out of this conversation.

"Technically Poe's in the right to be General," I explained, seeing Poe think about it as I shrugged my shoulders at him.

"Really?" Poe asked, having me give him a look.

"My mom made you acting General, not me." I reminded him, but Finn cleared his throat now as we both looked back at him.

"This droid has a ton of information about Exegol," Finn explained, pointing to the droid below him that was rolling back and forth on his one wheel.

"What, cone-face?" Poe asked, unimpressed, having me whack his arm to be nice about it when the small droid spoke up.

"I am D-O," The droid replied hastily, having me smirk from the fast remark.

"Sorry, D-O," Poe apologized before he looked back at Finn.

"He was going to Exegol with Ochi," Finn explained.

"Why was Ochi going there?" I asked, seeing Finn give me an intense look.

"To bring back a little girl he was supposed to take from Jakku…to the Emperor," Finn explained, having me see the look of worry on Peo's face. I looked at him in confusion now as I was having no clue what was going on, who they were talking about, and why the Emperor was brought into this conversation. I looked from Poe to Finn, wondering if he was going to tell me, but nothing was verbally said. I saw him pour his mind into my own, his energy connecting with mine as he finally told me what happened.

"Neyli," Poe started to explain, but I was looking directly at Finn now as we were mentally talking without Poe knowing, "When you were kidnapped on the Destroyer and we came to get you…Rey—"

"Rey's his granddaughter?!" I asked him in shock, breaking my connection to Finn now as I was looking at Poe with wide eyes. Poe was dead quiet, looking like he just saw me get shot with a blaster. he then pointed to me now with one shaky finger.

"How did…" He then slowly looked at Finn, seeing Finn look at him calmly, "Okay…you two clearly are talking in your heads since I didn't tell her anything yet!"

"I don't know what you're talking about," Finn said fast as he looked down at the droid, "Come on, let's get you linked up." He hastily walked away, having Poe looking flustered and blubbering a bit now as he looked at me as if I was going to tell him some kind of answer. I just gave him a calm smile. If Finn wasn't going to tell him now either should I.

"I'll explain later, sweetheart," I reassured, patting his good arm with my hand as I followed. Poe grumbled a bit as he followed reluctantly.

"First my best friend and now my fiancé. Just great."

"All the information you need for an airstrike on Exegol." Finn explained as we were looking on the screen. We plugged D-O to one of the monitors, seeing the small that he had to show us Exegol and all that was surrounding it.

"Yeah except how to get there," Poe commented, nursing his injured arm a bit as he was peering into the monitor, "Are you seeing these admiral readings?"

"It's a mess out there. Magnetic cross fields…" Finn trailed off

"Gravity wheels, sonic wind?" Rose commented in agreement.

"How does an entire fleet take off from there?" I asked out loud to the four do us as C-3PO spoke up as he was walking over to us with R2D2 right behind him. Other members of the Resistance were gathering around when they saw the two droids making their way over to us to see what was going on.

"I'm terribly sorry, but I'm afraid R2's memory banks but be cross with his logical receptors: he says he is receiving a transmission from…Master Luke," 3PO said to us, having my eyes grew big. I rushed over to kneel next to R2D2, seeing him chirp at me now as I was looking directly at the doors.

"You sure it's him?" I asked, seeing him chirp back at me, "Show me on the screen, buddy." he rolled over to our monitor and we saw him insert the information there along with the motor, a small tracking triangle object was seen there traveling along the minor.

"That's an old craft ID," Poe explained as he was looking at the numbers. I was doing it too, grabbing his sleeve and looking at him in shock.

"That's my Uncle Luke's X-Wing," I explained to him now since I remembered that call sign and number from stories in the past.

"It's transmitting course marker symbols, on its way to the unknown regions," 3PO explained.

"It's Rey," Finn said as he was watching the small triangle move along the surface,' She's going to Exegol, and she's showing us how to get there." Poe looked determined then more than he did before when he felt like we were down on our luck. He looked like a General, a glint in his eye and his mind in the right place.

"Then we go together."

Poe called a meeting of all the members of the Resistance under one of our carriers, already wanting them to know our plan that we came up with. I wanted Finn and Poe to take the lead with the plan since they were the ones who got it together. I was going to stand by Lando and Chewie, watching them as they were informing the group as the newly inducted Generals.

"As long as there are Star Destoyers on Exegol, we can hit them," Poe informed the group.

"Hit them how?" one pilot asked.

"They can't activate their shields until they leave the atmosphere," I explained to answer the question, in which Poe continued.

"Which isn't easy on Exegol, ships that size need help taking off. Nav can't tell which way is up, out there." Poe informed the group.

"So how do they ships take off?" Another member asked.

"They use a signal from a navigation tower, like this one," Poe answered, showing a hologram picture of the navigation tower in question for all of the group to see.

"Except they won't. Air team's gonna find the tower, grounds team's gonna blast it." Finn commented, though now Jencon spoke up.

"Ground team?" Jencon asked a bit shocked.

"I have an idea for that," Finn reassured him before focusing back on the group.

"Once the tower's down, the fleet will be stuck in admiral for a few minutes with no shields, and no way out," Poe told the group.

"We think hitting the cannons might igniter the main reactors," Rose explained.

"That's our chance," Lando said in confidence.

"We need to pull some holdon maneuvers, make some real damage," Beaumont suggested with his arms crossed in front of him.

"Come on, that move's one in a million. Fighters and freighters can take out their cannons if there are enough fo us." Finn countered back with him.

"There aren't enough of us!" one X-Wing pilot said in retaliation.

"He's right. We'd be no more than bugs to them." Connix said in agreement to the pilot.

"That's where Lando and Chewie come in. They'll take the Falcon to the core systems, send out a call for help for anybody listening " Finn reminded her, Poe nodding his head in agreement, some of the group were shifting from hearing the second part of the plan.

"We've got friends out there. They'll come if they know there's hope." Poe told them all, but I could see the grave look on their face in the reality that there might not be others that will come to our aid. The doubt was settling in, I could feel it.

"They will! The First Order wins when they make us think we're alone. We're not alone, good people will fight if we lead them." Poe reminded them, seeing a little more reassurance now with the group as I found my own voice standing a bit in front of both Finn and.

"Leia never gave up, and neither will we. We're gonna show them we're not afraid." I said in determination, all of their faces on me and they were quiet. I felt confident bringing up my mother, in what she believed in and what she fought her with her whole life and with all that she had in her.

"What are mothers and fathers fought for, we will not let die. Not today. Today we make our last stand. For the galaxy, for Leia, for everyone we've lost," Poe said in agreement as he placed his hand on my arm to show me he agreed.

"They've taken enough of us, now we take the war to them." Finn declared, having me hear the adrenaline in his tone. I could tell now that we as a whole were going to do this together, as we were all one united front as the Resistance.

"Mom, I think what we're about to do is…suicidal, but it might be our best shot," I was in the same position as Poe was sometime before when he was consoling my mother in a way that seemed intimate. The others were going off to get their ships and X-Wings ready for battle, but I felt like I needed a moment or two alone with my mother, and even though she was already gone, I didn't want this to be the very last I would see her physically.

I was sitting, perched on a storage box in front of her body and how quiet it was in our own corner. I was hoping to get some kind of sign from her and how she could help me, though she was already long gone. In the end, it was quiet and uneventful as I was taking my hair within my fingers and trying to make a braid down the back, a way that I would stay calm and get my head back in the right space.

"I know you're already…gone. And it hurts because I need you now more than ever since I'm scared, but I know now that you're still with me," I kept going, sounding like I was talking to myself with no one else around. Maybe I would have looked crazy to others that were walking by, but I didn't care. I was focused on my mother, and whatever hold she still had on my left.

"I was so close to binging Ben back here, mom. I was so close, we both felt you. Maybe you planned that on purpose….or mere accident. Who knows with this family," I paused and grinned, already thinking back to the plenty of antics our family has gone through or were known to have gone through, "It's hard without you and dad. Maybe Ben can still be saved, I can feel that light within him….just like you did. Did you feel it in him?"

It was soothing within me, venting all of this out to her now within our own quiet space. She was the one who never gave up on him when my dad ran off and others turned on him. I didn't know better because I believe the lie that he was already dead. But now that things were different, both my mom and dad were gone, I was the last family he had left.

"He's reached out to me, mom. He knows that I'm here and he wants to protect me. It feels like everyone around me has been wanting to protect me….and they forget that I'm your daughter. Hell, I have the blood of a Princess and a Scoundrel in my veins…that has to count for something with this. I'm not as afraid as I thought I was going to be, and I have you to thank for that. Just….be there with me when we do this," I felt a twinge of fear there, thinking that I could be the next one in this position where my mom is. It would only take one moment and I would be gone too, the last one in our family.

I didn't hear him coming up behind me, let alone stopping a bit behind me now, but I could feel him right there within the area. I was still, not moving an inch now as I was still watching my mother's body.

Finn's Force Energy was beyond strong.

"If Rey is really…the Emperor's granddaughter…then she'll need our help. Rey's in trouble…and I think I need to help her now more than ever, but I don't know what to do," I mumbled the last part.

"I want to help her too," Finn admitted, walking over to stand next to me now as he was looking down at me, "She never once saw me beyond who I was. Since I left all that I knew of being a Stormtrooper, Rey never flinched in her loyalty to me,"

"She has a good heart," I reminded him, finally looking away from my mother and over to Finn now, seeing him look at me in hesitance, "She saw the good in you, she saw it in all of us….which is why we need to help her."

"Knowing her though, she won't let us help her," Finn countered back, having me nod and then looked behind me to see if we were truly alone. It was just the both of us, having me clear my throat to make sure that Finn was paying attention to me now. I slowly got up to stand next to him and I analyzed his face.

"I know what I want to do…and it involves me helping Rey," I explained, seeing his face light up now as I mentioned our friend there, "But I need you not to say anything to Poe,"

"Why not?" He asked, having me roll my showers now as I gave Finn a look.

"Since what I was thinking of doing is downright crazy, but I think it's the one thing that I do need to do to help her," I explained, giving him a serious look. Finn could tell that I wasn't lying about this and I thought long and hard. Rey was going to need help, and if I was going to be able to help her, then no one else would need to know what I was going to do. It felt like I was already making decisions and choices that were already rash enough, and this was going to be the cherry on the top. But Ben was going to help Rey, and if what I was feeling was really going to happen.

Rey was going to try and stop the Emperor, and she wasn't going to be alone.