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In a darkened corner of the galaxy Snoke was beginning to lose his patience,"Where is Ren, General Hux?"

"We have not been able to locate him, Snoke sir." Hux replied shakily and Snoke growled angrily,"Well find him! Do not fail me again General."

"Sir, perhaps he's been killed. We have searched the entire galaxy sir and there is no sign of him." Hux stammered.

"Fool! I would have felt it if he had been killed, do not question me again. Just find Ren you idiot! Now!" Snoke roared and Hux nodded.

"Phasma! Find Ren! I don't care how you do it or who you have to kill as long as you find him, search every ship, planet, everywhere and anywhere just find him dammit!" Hux ordered and Phasma nodded.

"Would you like me to search your head for a brain as well, General?" Phasma asked snidely.

"Listen to me you metallic little witch! You might think this is funny but let me tell you something, if we don't find Ren Snoke will kill you and me and everyone else from here all the way to Naboo. So maybe you should quit running your mouth and FIND REN!" Hux screamed in her face.

Phasma simply shrugged and walked away without a word.

She was beginning to wonder if FN hadn't made a smart choice by defecting as he did from the Storm Troopers as she was seriously considering following his lead because she was sick of dealing with Hux's bullshit.

However Phasma couldn't warn the resistance about the first order's search for Ren because she didn't know where they were and even if she did and showed up there she'd be shot on sight. No, she needed to find a way to confront the resistance face to face and in a way they wouldn't expect.

At the resistance base

Leia, Han and Rey were getting ready to make a supply run. The base was running low on food and ammunition as well as medical supplies.

"Luke, Chewy you make sure that cell door stays locked while we're gone! Nobody gets in or out of that Ben's cell until you see me walk off the Falcon, understood?" Leia demanded.

Chewy roared in agreement and Luke nodded.

"I mean it Luke! If I see so much as a scratch on that door as a sign of someone trying to let him out or get in there to kill my son I will hold you personally responsible, do not make me regret trusting you with this!" Leia warned her brother harshly.

"Chewy, keep Luke out of trouble and you have my full permission to knock out anyone trying go in or out of Ben's cell. Including Luke." Leia said with smile in Chewbacca's direction while she glared in warning at her brother.

"Hey uh Luke, a word of advice. Don't piss him off because he will do more than just knock you out if you make him angry enough." Han warned his brother in-law.

Luke nodded with a scoff,"Thanks for the vote of confidence guys." he muttered.

"See you later uncle Sky. Bye Chewy." Rey called to them before closing the Falcon's door.

"So where are we going to get supplies?" Rey asked from where she was sitting in the lounge.

"We're going to see a guy I know, old friend by the name of Lando Calrissian. Anyway he used to run an old carbon mine on Bespin but when your grandfather blew it up with the second death star he went back to smuggling which means he could be anywhere but last I heard he was in Naboo so that's our first stop. If he's not there we'll keep looking until we find him." Han explained.

"What if we can't find him?" Rey asked and silence followed.

"Uh... well then we'll think of something else." Han replied after a minute and Rey laughed.

"You didn't plan this out too well, did you Dad?" Rey asked still giggling and Leia snickered,"What else is new? No wait, let me guess. I'm going to have to get us out this one too while a year from now your father will tell everyone that he got us out of it."

"Oh come on, I rescued you didn't I?" Han scoffed in exasperation and Leia snorted,"Mm hm, yeah you rescued me alright. You and my idiotic brother stormed in there blasters blazing and the entire Storm Trooper squad followed you and I had to shoot out the panel leading to the trash compacter so we wouldn't get shot but yeah you rescued me. Not."

"Oh yeah because getting squashed to death was a much better plan than getting shot, right? Sure, whatever you say Princess!" Han retorted and Leia smacked him upside the head playfully.

"Hey! Leia, knock it off!" Han complained and Leia smirked,"Call me Princess one more time, I dare you!"

"Oh I'm sorry, did I say Princess? I meant Gen-" Leia smacked him upside the head again only this time a little harder.

"Don't call me that either, Laser Brain!" Leia hissed playfully and Han raised an eyebrow at her use of her old nickname for him.

"You did not just call me that. Again." Han grumbled and Leia smirked,"And if I did? What are you gonna do about it, Hm?"

"Why you feisty little-" Han said but Rey cut them off before things got too interesting,"Okay, both of you knock it off! I thought I was supposed to be the kid here and you two the parents?" Rey scolded them with a smirk as she leaned against the archway of the cockpit.

"Hey Mom, wasn't Naboo your mother's home planet?" Rey asked and Leia looked confused for a moment before realization hit her.

"Oh, you mean my biological mother? Yes I do believe so but she died from complications after giving birth to your uncle and I so I never met her. I wish I had so I knew more about her but unfortunately I can't tell you that much about her because I don't know a lot myself." Leia explained and Rey nodded.

"What I do know is that her name was Padmé Amidala and that she once served as Queen of Naboo and that she loved your grandfather very much. Nobody knows for sure but it's been said that part of the reason Anakin Skywalker fell to the dark side is because he loved Padmé so much that when she died after giving birth to us the light that was left in him died with her. My adoptive parents said that she was like an angel of the light side of the force because of how compassionate and kind she was but they died with Alderaan before I could learn anymore about my bloodline. Darth Vader blew it all to hell, he may have been Anakin Skywalker once but by the time I knew him whatever might have been left of my father was gone. Which is why I'm so glad we have a chance to save your brother, I know he must be going stir crazy but we need to be sure he's truly back on our side one hundred percent before we set him free. Plus, if Snoke finds out he's still alive or already has then we must also be prepared to protect him. Ben will be safe enough for now in his cell but we need more blaster ammunition so that we're ready for anything. This is why we're looking for Lando, weapons are not exactly easy to come by these days unless you have connections. Now I have connections of my own but my connections play by the rules which is good however it also takes longer, Lando on the other hand is more like your father and likes to play more recklessly which granted is more dangerous but it's also a hell of a lot faster and right now we need fast." Leia explained and Rey nodded, looking thoughtful.

"Hey Dad, do you know where Maz Kanata relocated to after Ben blew up her castle?" Rey asked.

"Just that she was headed for somewhere on the other side of the galaxy why?" Han asked.

"Well I thought maybe if we can't find Lando that maybe she might be able to help us." Rey suggested.

"Well Maz was never much of a smuggler but she does have connections and lots of them. Worth a shot at least but we'll look for Lando first." Han replied with his usual cocky grin.

"That girl is too much like you already Han so don't go giving her any ideas, our daughter is not a smuggler nor will she be if I can help it!" Leia shot her husband a warning glare.

Naboo

Han, Leia and Rey walked through the markets and shops of Naboo looking at the various wares of all kinds. Leia sensed that they were being watched and followed though she didn't let on about it.

From a few feet away around the side of a shop Phasma spotted the General and Captain of the resistance along with one of their new recruits. Phasma used her dagger to cut into her helmet and yanked out the tracking device that allowed the first order to be aware of where she was and what she was up to. She threw the tracker on the ground and crushed it under her foot before she moved to trail the group of resistance fighters.

Leia grabbed Han and Rey and pulled them into an alley way,"Leia wha-"

"Shush!" Leia ordered and listened for footsteps.

Just as Phasma was about pass them Leia reached out, grabbed her and slammed her into the alley wall.

"Captain Phasma. Would you care to explain why you are following us?" Leia demanded and Rey looked like she wanted to say something.

"Check her helmet, they'll be tracking her." Rey warned her mother and Leia nodded.

Phasma took her helmet off and showed Leia the destroyed pieces of the tracking device,"I destroyed the tracker so the first order can't track me and then hid the pieces in my helmet to make sure they'd find nothing if they came looking for me. I don't expect you to trust me but if you allow me to explain then I have some information for you General Organa."

"Oh really and why should I listen to anything you have to say? I should just blast you and be done with it." Leia hissed angrily.

"You could do that but then you wouldn't know what Snoke is up to. He knows your son is still alive, he's got the first order searching the entire galaxy for him but I know how they do things. I know their ways of operation and I know where they might look for him, also I've been told that if Snoke dosen't find your son he's going to personally kill a lot of people including children and plans to destroy multipul systems in his rage. I am many things General but even I am not a monster, I cannot allow Snoke to kill innocent children especially when I am a mother myself." Phasma replied honestly and Leia softened slightly.

"But how...? Storm troopers are taken at birth and trained to kill without mercy so how... You can't possibly..." Leia trailed off in confusion.

"Yes, except I was highly trained in various abilities including hand to hand combat, stealth, military combat, tracking and bounty hunting and I have a natural talent for leadership as well as flying nearly any ship in the galaxy. Plus, I'm good with battle strategy and highly perceptive which more often than not allows me to predict peoples moves before they make them which is why the first order sought me out. At first I thought I would be fighting for some great cause but I soon learned otherwise and threatened to warn the republic before Snoke blew them up but they said if I did they would kill my daughter so I remained silent for my daughter's sake but no more. I love my daughter and they will probably kill her for my betrayal but I cannot stand by while the first order murders thousands of innocent people. There were so many times I wanted to defect from the first order and their storm troopers but every time I thought about it I thought of my daughter, that and there never seemed to be a good enough reason to defect when I stood to lose the one thing the one person that mattered to me. However, I realize now that this is so much bigger than just my life or the life of my daughter and if I die because I betrayed the first order and tried to help the resistance instead then at least I know that I died fighting to save lives and not fighting to take them. I want to be someone my daughter can be proud of and if I stand by while the first order slaughters innocents then I'm nothing to be proud of but if I go down fighting for something better, something meaningful then I'm setting an example for my daughter to follow. I know nothing can make up for the unspeakable things I've done but I refuse to go back to the first order so if you wish to kill me by all means go right ahead and I will gladly go quietly but if not then please give me the chance to do something right in my life. I will forever wear the shame of all my wrongs but if I can do one thing right, just one thing that proves I wasn't a complete coward with no sense of mercy then all I ask is to be allowed the chance to prove more to myself than anyone else that I can do good that I can do better than the first order." Phasma explained with feeling and Leia bowed her head sadly.

"You're offering to help the resistance then? What about your daughter, aren't you worried they'll try to kill her? We cannot protect her, I wish we could but unfortunately we don't have the resources we used to now that the republic has been destroyed. I swear to you Captain that I would provide protection for your daughter if I could but at this point I can barely protect the people that follow me now." Leia replied with obvious sympathy and Phasma nodded.

"I understand General and yes I fear they will try to kill my daughter and if they are successful then I will do my best to make sure she does not die in vain and hopefully see her in the afterlife but I will no longer follow the first order into a meaningless blood bath. I cannot undo my wrongs but from now on, no more mistakes. I didn't join the first order to kill and slaughter I joined them to fight for what they led me to believe was a noble cause but this is noble cause. This is the first order's way of gaining power and status and to crush anyone who defies against them and I want no part of it. I remember how the republic spoke of peace, freedom and equality and at the time I believed those things to be impossible and unrealistic views but now after I've seen what the resistance can do and what they stand for, what you stand for I realized I wanted to be a part of something that could make the galaxy a better place so that one day maybe just maybe there could be peace and equality." Phasma explained honestly.

"We need all the help we can get but I'll warn you now Captain I don't trust you so if I see so much as one sign of this being a trap or setup I will not hesitate and I will shoot you! All that aside, welcome to the resistance. Do not, I repeat do not make me regret this." Leia said in a way that made it clear to Phasma that she was dead serious.

"Understood General but this is not a setup." Phasma replied with a salute.

"For your sake, I hope not but we shall see." Leia said sternly and narrowed her eyes at the Captain.