Resistance base, same time…
"Alright, soldiers! Today you will be doing the obstacle course! This is rigorous- some people call it Darth Vader's playground because of how tortuous it is!" Poe told his recruits with a grin. Everyone laughed. He laughed with them and suddenly he felt a pit in his stomach. His vision tunneled and blurred, and he got dizzy.
"Sergeant Dameron, are you okay?" One of the recruits asked. "Someone go get Finn!"
Poe fell down on his back, and his recruits gathered around him. Suddenly there was a break in the crowd as Finn and a medic kneeled down beside him. "Poe?" Finn called. "Can you hear me?"
"Yeah… I don't feel good," Poe managed to say before his eyes closed, passed out. Finn gestured to the gourney beside them and the medic helped him lift Poe onto it, and they headed for the Medical Bunker.
Within the same hour, a message came for General Leia Organa. "Ma'am," the messenger said, "Rea Dameron has been executed. Her cover was blown."
Leia sighed. She hated to hear news like that. Nobody knew about Rea's mission except her husband and Leia. The truth was never told to her children, although Leia assumed Ellie was the one who may have blown her cover. Poe never knew, and now the burden was upon Leia to tell him the truth. She went down to the training grounds to find him.
"General," One of the recruits approached her. "Sargent Dameron seddenly got ill and he had to be taken to the medical bunker."
"Thank you. Back to your training," she ordered, and left again for the medical bunker.
Poe barfed into a bin and laid back down. Dizzy and disoriented, he couldn't even understand what was going on. He barely felt them take his shirt off, and he could barely tell whether he was upright or laying down.
"So he hasn't responded to anything?" General Organa asked the medic.
"He hasn't replied to anything yet."
"Finn? Do you know what happened?" General Organa asked him.
"All I know is that like an hour ago he started acting funny then he fainted."
Leia tried to piece together information in her mind. "Finn, let me know when Poe is conscious. I have news for him," she ordered, not waiting for him to comply and leaving the room.
Poe had no clue how much time had passed, but Finn was snoring in a chair next to him when Poe could tell what was going on. He had a deep sense of dread in his gut, and it felt like he had a bad lunch.
"Finn?" He said quietly, trying to wake his friend. He stood up and shook his friend, only to figure out he was dead. He turned and saw bodies piled high in a half circle around him. On top of the bodies was Ellie, weilding her dual blasters and a smirk behind her helmet.
"No, Ellie, no!" He shouted, knowing it would never make a difference. "Why, Ellie?"
"Resistance meets Justice, and Justice always wins," she said mystically.
"Ellie, what have you done?"
"Poe… Poe… Poe… Poe…" She kept on repeating, walking towards me.
"Poe!" Finn shouted, trying to snap him out of his nightmare.
"Finn? You're alive?" Poe asked, finally waking up. He felt groggy and depressed, even though one of his best friends was alive, that everyone was alive.
"Yeah…" He said slowly, as if it were obvious. He turned to one of the medics. "Go get General Organa."
They ran off and Finn turned back to Poe. "What was that dream about? You kept on saying 'No, Ellie, no!'" Finn mimicked in a falsetto tone.
"I dreamt that she killed everyone."
"Must've been pretty realistic."
"It happens to the best of us, Poe," General Organa interrupted, walking in which the medic, who began checking Poe's vitals.
"You might want to wait on that," General Organa advised the medic. "Poe, I have some news that you need to know."
The medic backed off, and Poe turned to her, all ears.
"A few years ago, your mother went undercover in the hands of the First Order."
Poe was confused. She never did that.
"So far under cover that nobody was to know of her whereabouts but her husband and her commander."
"So only you and Dad," Poe clarified.
"Yes. She was pretty convincing, she managed to get us information from time to time. Then your sister rose from the dead and came aboard the same ship your mother was on."
Poe shook his head, unable to believe the words he was hearing. Why wasn't he told this sooner? What was the relevance of it now?
"Well, your mother's cover was blown, and she got executed."
Poe felt like she had died all over again. He swallowed hard.
"I'm so sorry, Poe."
"How long ago?" He asked.
"We got word a few hours ago…" Leia said, as if she realized something.
"What?" Poe asked.
"Finn, how long ago did Poe get sick?" Leia asked.
Finn, who wasn't really paying attention, glanced up. "Oh, around midday."
Leia sighed. "Poe, I know why you aren't feeling good."
"The Force," Poe realized. "I felt it. When she died." His eyes started to fill with manly tears. Finn, who started to pay attention, patted Poe's back. "At least it's not Ellie," Poe said optimistically, not feeling optimistic at all. He hoped he would never feel that way again.
Luke's Island...
"Amazing…" Luke muttered.
"What?" Rey said.
"Poe's mother died."
"That's not amazing."
"No, not that. Poe felt her die. The Force is with him."
"Does that mean he can use the Force?"
"I dunno. I might look into that later."
"Could Ellie use the Force?"
Luke paused. "If she tried, maybe. Hopefully, Leia can figure it out and get the message to Poe who can get it to Ellie."
"And then Poe can finally rescue her!" Rey exclaimed, happy that the story was almost at the 'happily ever after' part.
"Once he feels better," Luke added. Rey shrugged. "You hungry?" Luke asked. Rey nodded. "Alright let me go fix lunch."