AN: Hi everyone, I hope you're all having great holidays! :D
A red light forms in the center of the Starkiller before there's the sound of an explosion and a great red laser bursts out of the center. The blast is so powerful it knocks the trees over.
All of the Stormtroopers turn to watch the weapon, the sky has a red hue due to the giant laser that's tearing through it.
Hux watches the weapon in awe, still shaking with adrenaline, the laser reflecting in his eyes.
The laser shoots through space before it passes the Finalizer, everyone on board watches it as it passes.
Darth Caedus watches the laser pass. The red light reflecting off of the silver of his mask. His face is ridden of emotion.
Finn helps load the luggage onto the ship when he hears screams, he sets the luggage down and turns, then he looks up at the sky and his eyes widen in horror as he sees the red lights in the sky.
Rey gasps and a claps a hand over her heart as she feels it. People. Billions of people screaming, fearing, dying. "Oh no..." she whispers.
Han grabs Rey's shoulders as she stumbles forward a bit, "Rey, what is it?"
"I-I..." Rey's interrupted as screams from outside reach their ears.
Everyone pours outside to see what was wrong, when they look up and see the Starkiller's lasers.
"That's it." Rey whispers to herself, "That's what I felt..."
"It was the Republic!" Finn runs up, "The First Order, they've done it!"
Ben runs through the woods, dodging rocks and trees, before finally stopping and leaning up against a tree, panting.
He stands up a little straighter then turns around, he stares at the tree for a moment before he grits his teeth and slams the sides of his fists onto its bark, scraping his already banged up hands.
He breathes through his teeth roughly and brushes the small bits of bark off his hands. He reaches up and wipes away the tears that don't seem to want to stop falling.
His emotions are running wild; sadness, confusion, fear...
Anger.
A few chirps and beeps snap him out of his thoughts, he whirls around and sees BB-8, "BB! What are you doing here?" he asks
BB-8 asks him the same question.
"I was coming back," Ben says, walking over to BB-8 and kneeling down, "I just needed to clear my head, I'm not leaving. I just-"
Ben's cut off by the sound of...TIE Fighters. His head shoots upward and he stands up, there are dozens of TIE Fighters and shuttles flying overhead, "Oh no...BB come on!" he says rushing back to Maz's Castle.
"I've had this for ages" Maz says, leading Han, Rey, Finn and Chewie through the cellar, she walks over and opens the crate, "Kept it locked away." She brings out the Lightsaber.
"Where'd you get that?" Han asks, eyes widen slightly at the sight of the lightsaber.
"A good question, for another time." Maz says, she walks over to Rey, and hands the saber to her, "Take it, and go find Ben!"
'Ben?' Finn thought.
Rey's about to take the lightsaber, when the whole castle shakes.
"Those beasts," Maz says, "They're here."
Ben and BB-8 rush through the woods, when they reach the edge, they see the TIE Fighters destroying Maz's castle, nearby, a Command Shuttle lands, but Ben doesn't notice this.
Ben hears a voice and whirls around to see a Stormtrooper, he pulls out the blaster and tries to shoot. "Ugh! Stupid safety lock!" he groans, trying to undo it quickly.
"Hey!" Ben's head shoots back up before he dives to the ground as the Stormtrooper shoots at him. He finally undoes the safety lock before shooting back at the stormtrooper, hitting him the second time.
This puts Ben into a temporary shock, but he quickly snaps out of it and shoots at other Stormtroopers that are heading his way. "Come on BB let's go!" he says as the two run back into the woods, dodging blasts along the way.
Darth Caedus walks off of the Command Shuttle, followed by a fleet of Stormtroopers. He shoves rubble out of his way with the Force and walks through a small broken archway. He can see a battle raging not too far away, but he couldn't care less about that. He has matters of his own to deal with.
There's a voice from a small distance away, "Sir! The droid was spotted heading west...with a boy!" Caedus's head snaps over in the direction of the woods.
Ben turns and shoots at the Stormtrooper that was chasing him and BB-8 before he kneels down to talk to BB-8, "You have to keep going! Stay out of sight...I'll try to hold them off."
BB-8 beeps out something, "Yeah, you be careful too." Ben says before running off, BB-8 rolling in the opposite direction.
Chewie roars slightly and pushes a large column out of the way as he, Han, Rey, Finn, and Maz clamber out of the cellar.
Han rushes out and immediately shoots a few Stormtroopers, hitting one without even looking!
"Come on Chewie!" Han yells scrambling from the large pile of rubble, Finn, Rey and Maz all following, Rey pulls something from her belt.
"I've been wanting to use this all day!" Rey says, igniting her jade-colored lightsaber.
"Wait!" Finn exclaims, "You're a-"
"Jedi, yeah." Rey finishes nonchalantly, before running off to fight the Stormtroopers.
After that Finn realized something, "Wait! I don't have a weapon!" he yells, he feels something pull on his sleeve and looks down only to have Maz push something into his hand.
"Now you do! Now go find Ben, he needs that!" She says pointing to the saber.
Finn holds up the saber and presses the little green button to turn it on, a green beam is activated.
Han and Chewie are hiding behind a destroyed pillar, shooting at Stormtroopers, "Hey, can I try that?" Han asks Chewie, pointing to his crossbow. Chewie nods and hands it to him.
Han aim the crossbow and shoots at two Stormtroopers, they go flying.
"I like this thing." Han says to Chewie.
Finn rushes up and using the lightsaber, he stabs and kills one of the Stormtroopers.
From a little ways away, he sees Rey standing in the middle of immobilized blaster bolts, her hand outstretched. Then she flicks her wrist and the bolts shoot right back at the Stormtroopers, that also seemed to be frozen.
They fall like bowling pins.
Finn doesn't have time to admire this, because-
"Traitor!" Finn turns and sees his old Comrade, TR-8R, he throws down his blaster and shield. Finn gets the saber ready, and TR-8R get out a shock rod.
The two clash fiercely for a while before Finn is flung backward. Finn is struggling to get up as TR-8R raises his shock rod and is about to bring it down on him, but he's run through with a bright green lightsaber.
Rey pulls her saber out of TR-8R and throws him on the ground, "You alright?" She asks, holding out her hand to help Finn up. "Thanks." Finn says.
"Don't move!" They look around and the next thing they know they're surrounded by the Stormtroopers and their weapons are taken away from them. "TK-338, we have targets in custody."
As they're being led off by the Stormtroopers, they hear one of them say, "We have incoming at 28.6!"
"Move! Move! Move!"
"Scramble all squads, repeat, scramble all squads!" The Stormtroopers all run over to the edge of the destroyed bar to see a bunch of ships flying over the ocean.
"Head to higher cover and wait for our position!"
Han lowers his hands from behind his head. "It's the Resistance."
"Go straight at them! Don't let these thugs scare you!"
"Copy that!"
"We're with you, Poe!"
The X-wings fly in and begin to shoot at the TIE Fighters and at the Stormtroopers below.
The Stormtroopers that were surrounding Han, Chewie, Rey and Finn were shot, they looked at each other for a moment before Han Said, "Quick!" and they all scrambled for their weapons.
Rey immediately dives for her lightsaber and runs head first into the fighting. Finn grabs the other lightsaber and a blaster, then he begins to shoot at the Stormtroopers.
As Finn shoot at some more Stormtroopers, he couldn't help but watch one X-Wing not only fly incredibly well, but also take down nine TIE Fighters!
"WOO! YEAH!" The X Wing soared over him, "That's one hell of a pilot!"
"WOO-HOO!" Poe yells.
Nearby, Rey is almost a blur. She's deflecting the bolts from the blasters and cutting down Stormtroopers with her saber, using the Force to throw rocks and boulders and knock troopers over.
Then she glances up and sees one of the X-wings being trailed by a TIE fighter. "Oh no you don't!" she says to herself.
She holds up her hand and suddenly the TIE fighter is immobilized. Rey grits her teeth and brings her hand down, and the TIE fighter crashes into a troop transport that was just about to land!
Finn watches as Rey does the 'immobilized blaster bolt circle' trick again and then turns to Han.
"Solo, why does she need our help again?" he asks.
Han shrugs, "Distraction."
Ben runs through the woods, clumsily aiming the blaster in case he has to shoot, he looks around for a moment before he hears it; it sounds like very intense static. He recognizes that sound.
His head snaps around and he aims the blaster, he hears it again, he turns quickly, he couldn't see anybody, but he knows someone was there.
He rushes into a small valley, keeping his blaster aimed forward. His heart is racing, his breathing is picking up, and he's starting to sweat.
Then he appears.
He's wearing all black with silver gauntlets, silver arrows on his chest and belt and he's wearing a mask; It's silver with black stripes running up and down his face, where the eyes should have been there's a sideways stripe that Ben figures out is a visor.
He emerges from behind a rock, his lightsaber ignited, the lightsaber is red and crackling, like it's unstable could blow up any minute, with two smaller lasers on the sides.
Ben lets out a yell before shooting at him, it did absolutely nothing, because the figure used his lightsaber to reflect the shots.
Ben stumbles up and down hills and rocks, shooting his blaster non-stop, he's getting frustrated because of the figure blocking his shots.
The figure finally pulls his hand back and Ben feels the blaster get yanked from his hand, then the figure swings his arm forward and Ben's own flew to his side. Ben's eyes dart back and forth, 'Why can't I move?!' He thinks.
The figure lets out a slight chuckle. "Well, well, well. Look at who we have here." He says, walking closer to Ben, when he gets close enough, he kneels down slightly so that they're face to face. Ben can see his wide eyes reflected in the figure's visor.
"Heh, I have to admit...it's been a while Ben." The figure drawls.
"How does he know who I am?!" Ben thinks.
The Stromtroopers are struggling with the appearance of the Resistance, "Request air support!" One says into his communicator before signaling the others to fall back.
The figure holds his hand out in front of Ben's face. Ben bites back a cry as he feels something push into his head, "The map...You've seen it," The figure let's out a laugh, "Hah! I knew you were hiding something!"
"Sir, Resistance Fighters." The figure's head snaps over, it was two Stormtroopers, "We need more troops."
"No! Pull the division out, forget the droid, I have what I need." Is the last thing Ben hears before he blacks out.
Caedus watches as the boy collapses and catches him before picking him up, arms under his legs and back, his head and right arm hanging loosely. 'My mission is almost complete.' Caedus thinks, as he makes his way back to his ship.
In all the chaos, Han finally notices the Command Shuttle, and the person heading toward it. He feels his brow furrow and his breathing get harder, it's his son. He looks closer, and his heart almost stops. He has Ben!
Rey also notices the command shuttle, her glare hardens as she sees Caedus boarding it, but then she looks closer, and her eyes widen as she sees Ben's unconscious figure in his arms.
"NO!" She yells, she runs toward the shuttle as fast as she could, she has to get to him! She has to get to Ben!
She stops and holds up her hand, using the Force to immobilize the shuttle. She grits her teeth, if she's careful, she could bring down the shuttle and be able to get Ben.
Just then, a bolt flies inches in front of her face, the bolt also grazed her raised arm. She lets out a shocked yell and grabs her arm, turns her head to see a wounded Stormtrooper on the ground.
She quickly uses the Force to pull the blaster from his hand and then Force push him away.
Her head snaps back and her eyes widen with abject horror as she sees the command shuttle expand it's wings and fly away with the TIE fighters and transports.
Rey feels her eyes well up with tears, she doesn't know what to do, so she looks up at the sky, and takes in a breath, "BEN!" She cries after the retreating shuttle.
Finn, who had seen Rey run across the destroyed castle, stops and looks up at the shuttle also, he looks at Rey, also saddened that his friend had been taken by him.
"No..." Rey says weakly, falling to her knees and letting the tears fall.
BB-8 looks up at the sky. Seeing the TIE fighters, transports and Command Shuttle fly away, he turns and makes his way back to the others. Unknowing that his new friend was taken.
Han walks toward the shuttle that just landed, he watches the Resistance fighters walk out. Followed by her. Leia.
She stops when she sees him and gives him a small knowing smile. She walks closer to him, but before Han could open his mouth, Leia's view was blocked by a golden, robotic face.
"Goodness!" C-3PO said, "Han Solo! It is I, C-3PO." Han gets a very annoyed look that Leia knows too much. "You probably don't recognize me because of the red arm." 3PO turns to Leia "Look who it is, did you see who..."
Leia gives him a 'look'.
"Oh" He turns to Han "Uh" He turns back to Leia "Excuse me Prin...General. Sorry. Come on BB-8, quickly." He walks off with the small ball-like droid.
BB-8 beeps something to him, "Yes, I must get my proper arm reinstalled." 3PO says.
Han and Leia stare at each other for a moment before Han says, "You changed your hair."
Leia counters with, "Same jacket."
"No, new jacket."
Chewie walks up to Leia and growled before giving her a hug, she smiles and returns it. As Chewie walks into the shuttle, Leia turns back to Han.
"I saw them." He says. "Leia, I saw our sons, they were here."
Leia draws back slightly, before she mutters out, "Ben?"
"Yeah, Rey found him on Jakku, and brought him back...but his brother got him."
Leia's silent for a minute, she looks down slightly before look back at Han, "Well, there's no time to waste, we need to get back to the base."
AN: I'm not sure who's scarier, Caedus or Rey. XD Hope you liked this chapter!