Inside a holding cell of the Finalizer, Poe was shackled to a chair and had been tortured for a hours to reveal the whereabouts of the two maps that Lor San Tekka gave to him. He was badly beaten, but was strong enough to resist the pain that he received, and would never reveal the intel. As he slowly wakes up, he noticed that Kylo Ren was here.
"I had no idea we had the best pilot in the Confederation on board." Kylo spoke to him. "Comfortable?"
"Not really." Poe replied in a weak and quiet voice.
"My master has asked me to make sure you stay alive and well." Kylo said as he walks closer to the pilot. "Once you tell me where you hid those maps."
"I'm not going to tell anything." Poe said, refusing to give up or tell him what he did with the fragments.
"That's okay... you don't need to speak to give me the answer." Kylo said.
"Really?" Poe scoffed. "Well you might wanna rethink your technique."
Kylo Ren said nothing, and instead, he raises his hand in front of Poe's face, and uses the Force to reach out to him. Poe flinches in the chair as Kylo Ren reaches for his face, not even touching him. trying as much to resist, he is soon in agony, breathes very hard, and remains in horrible silence.
"Where is it?" Kylo demanded.
"The Confederation... nor the Jedi... will not be intimidated by you." Poe breathed hardly in refusal.
"Where... is it?" Kylo demanded in fierce tone.
Poe couldn't take it anymore from the pain he was receing from Kylo Ren. Sweating and breathing in rapid pace, he begins to scream.
After getting everything, the cell door slides up just as Kylo Ren exits, and confronts General Hux and Maber Yeff, who await him.
"What did he say?" Hux demanded to know.
"It's in a droid. A BB unit." Kylo answered.
"Well then. If it's on Jakku, we'll soon have it, and inform Snoke once the job is finished." Maber said.
Hux turns to face Lieutenant Dopheld Mitaka and Major Salle Serpa. Mitaka had black hair and blue eyes, and was known to be rather nervous while facing his superiors.
Unlike him, Major Serpa was tough, brutal, and had an apparent psychological instability. He was once a member of the Galactic Alliance Guard, serving under Darth Caedus during the Second Galactic Civil War. His task was to take over a Jedi Academy on Ossus, and would prove his readiness to kill anyone, such as Jedi. When Darth Caedus ordered that all of the Jedi on Ossus were to be executed, Major Serpa got his hand cut off by Jedi Knight Zekk during the battle, and disappeared. Following the liberation on Coruscant, Serpa joined the First Order after he discovered its existence while he ventured across the Unknown Regions.
During his service, Major Serpa wore stormtrooper armor that was coated in silver, and an armorweave cape in black and red like Captain Phasma.
"Major! Lieutenant! Dispatch as many squads as possible to find that droid and bring it back... in once piece." Hux ordered.
"Yes sir!" Salle complied and walked off immediately.
Immediately, Hux leaves Kylo and Maber alone, and makes his way back to the bridge.
"You have done well, my apprentice." Maber said, impressed of his talents. "Snoke has found you very invaluable to our cause."
"I've learned from the best." Kylo replied to his master.
"Indeed." Maber said. "Once we have the maps in our possession, the Jedi, along with Skywalker, will fall."
"Do not forget the Sith." Kylo added that as well. "They will fall along with them."
An hour later, the cell door whooshes open, and FN-2187 enters where he finds Poe shackled, worse for wear, and a trooper guarding him. TROOPER GUARD here.
"Ren wants the prisoner." FN-2187 said.
The Stormtrooper guard complied and unshackled Poe, and gave him to FN-2187. Passing a squad of stormtroopers, FN-2187 takes an exhausted Poe across the corridor of the star destroyer. Still handcuffed, Poe walks down the corridor by FN-2187, who holds a blaster at Poe's body.
"Turn here." FN-2187 said to him in quick tone.
Poe turns into a narrow passageway. Heading down the narrow hall FN-2187 stops Poe.
"Listen carefully: you do exactly as I say, I can get you out of here." FN-2187 said.
"If - what...?" Poe asked, confused on what was going on.
FN-2187 pulls off his helmet to reveal his true face to him. Holding his helmet, he continued to speak a little louder. "This is a rescue, I'm helping you escape. Can you fly a TIE fighter?"
"You with the Confederation?" Poe asked.
"What?" FN-2187 asked, confused on what he said and thought he was crazy. "No no no! I'm breaking you out. Can you fly a TIE fighter?"
"I can fly anything." Poe answered softly. "Why, why are you helping me?"
"Because it's the right thing to do." FN-2187 answered him.
Poe understood what he meant and hit him. "You need a pilot?"
"I need a pilot." FN-2187 whispered with sweat coming down his face.
"We're gonna do this." Poe said with a hero's smile.
FN-2187 was unsure but hopeful. "Yeah?"
Inside the hangar bay, FN-2187, now with his helmet on, walks with Poe. By all appearances, he pretends that he;s escorting Poe as his prisoner and hopes that he doesn't blow his cover when a group of First Order officers pass in the opposite direction.
"Okay, stay calm, stay calm." FN-2187 murmured to himself.
Poe heard what he was saying and responds quietly to him. "I am calm."
"Sorry... I was talking to myself." FN-2187 replied back. He continues to escort him as he continues to speak. "Not yet. Okay, go. This way."
FN-2187 quickly takes Poe toward the far wall up the stairs to a two-man special forces TIE fighter. The two drop into the back-to-back cockpit. FN-2187 pulls off his helmet as Poe removes his cuffs and jacket, fires up the ship with excitement.
"I always wanted to fly one of these things. Can ya shoot?" Poe asked him.
"Blasters, I can." FN-2187 answered.
"Okay, same principal! Use the toggle on the left to switch between missiles, cannons, and mag pulse." Poe instructed him. "Use the site on the right to aim, triggers to fire!"
"This is very complicated." FN-2187 muttered.
Just as the TIE fighter lurches forward, it stopped and Poe noticed that the ship had a cable that connected to it.
"I can fix this." Poe said.
Inside the Hangar Six Control Room, Technician Thanisson noticed that one of the TIEs in the hangar was leaving unsanctioned.
"Sir, we have an unsanctioned departure from bay two." Thanisson informed Colonel Kaplan.
"Alert General Hux and stop that fighter from leaving." Kaplan responds in a fierce tone.
As Poe does his part in lifting the TIE Fighter from the bay and tries to rip the charging cables, a squad of stormtroopers arrive and begin to prevent the TIE from escaping. Some unpack and aim megablasters at the TIE. Seeing them in front, FN-2187 opens fire and tears up parked TIE fighters and gun emplacements with well-armed strategic laser blasts. FN-2187 continued to fire, and aim at the Hangar Six Control Room, causing the windows to be blown in by heavy laser blasts which killed a number of technicians and officers, which included Colonel Kaplan and Technician Thanisson.
"I got it!" Poe yelled as he managed to get the TIE fighter to blast itself from the star destroyer and into open space. The pilot was really amazed, almost enjoying it. "Woooahhh! This thing really moves. All right, we gotta take out as many cannons as we can or we're not gonna get very far!"
"All right!" FN-2187 complied.
"I'm gonna get us in position, just stay sharp!" Poe encouraged him.
Poe flies the TIE Fighter back, and dives through the opening between the levels of the massive star destroyer, and then flies down and back along the ships's belly. That was when he flies towards the canons.
"Up ahead! Up ahead! You see it?" Poe asked loudly. "I've got us dead centered. It's a clean shot."
"Okay, got it." FN-2187 replied, and once he got the target enranged, he fires the laser blasts from the TIE fighter and hitting directly at the cannons while Poe flies the TIE fighter through the debris.
"Yeah!" Poe cheered.
"DID YOU SEE THAT?" FN-2187 yelled in celebration. "DID YOU SEE THAT?"
"Oh I saw it!" Poe laughed gratefully. "Say, what's your name? I never got it!"
"FN-2187!" FN-2187 replied loudly for him to hear.
Poe reacts, this tells him volumes about FN-2187's history.
"FN-whaa?" Poe asked in reaction and confusion.
"That's the only name they ever gave me." FN-2187 told him.
"Well I ain't using it." Poe said and pondered quickly. "FN, huh? Finn. I'm gonna call you Finn! That all right?"
Even in the madness, Finn couldn't suppress a smile from his face.
"'Finn'." Finn agreed to that name. "Yeah, 'Finn', I like that! I like that!"
"I'm Poe. Poe Dameron." Poe introduced him.
"Good to meet you, Poe." Finn said.
"Good to meet you too, Finn!" Poe said.
At the main bridge, Admiral Themion looks over the shoulder of Lieutenant Mitaka at a console.
"Admiral! Sir!" Mitaka called to Admiral Themion. They've taken out our turbolasers."
"Use the ventral cannons." Themion ordered.
"Yes, sir. Bringing them online." Mitaka complied.
"How did this happen exactly?" Hux asked the admiral in a fierce tone.
"We don't know, general." Themion answered. "Will find out as soon as possible?"
That was when Kylo Ren enters the bridge.
"General Hux. Is it the Resistance pilot?" Kylo asked him.
Hux turns to him and replies in a vexed tone. "Yes, and he had help... from one of our own." He turns away as he continues to speak. "We're checking the registers now to identify which Stormtrooper it was."
Then, Kylo began to remember what happened a night ago during the attack on Tuanul.
"The one from the village. FN-2187." Kylo said.
Hux is unnerved that Ren knew who the stormtrooper was already. He chalks it up to Ren's Force ability while he watches the Knight head off.
"Sir. Ventral cannons hot." Mitaka informed.
"Fire." Hux ordered.
Massive warhead launchers spin and fire blasts toward Poe's TIE fighter, which flies evasive maneuvers, but most of the blasts were hitting the debris from the turbolaser's destruction. Poe then pulls his TIE in a big turn, and heading directly back to Jakku, the desert planet where he left his droid BB-8. Poe was determined to get his droid first before the First Order does.
"One's coming towards you. My right, your left. Do you see it?" Poe asked him.
"Hold on! I see it!" Finn shouted as he fired.
"Nice shot." Poe laughed.
"Where are you going?" Finn asked, starting to look up suddenly in alarm.
"We're going back to Jakku." Poe answered him. "That's where."
"No no no!" Finn declined that idea. "We can't go back to Jakku! We need to get outta this system!"
"I got to get to my droid before the First Order does." Poe replied.
"What - a droid?!" Finn exclaimed in surprise.
"That's right. He's a BB unit. Orange and white: one of a kind." Poe described him on what his droid was like.
"I don't care what color he is!" Finn complained. "No droid can be that important!"
"This one is, pal." Poe said.
"We need to get as far away from the First Order as we can!" Finn argued. "We go back to Jakku, we die!"
"That droid's got two maps." Poe added. "One leads to Luke Skywalker and other leads to the Jedi."
Finn was not happy and was about to explode in rage. "Oh, you gotta be kidding me! I..."
His words were cut off when the TIE fighter was hit, sparked and smoked, it sprials out of control towards the surface of Jakku.
Back on the main bridge, Captain Phasma and General Hux stand before a holographic projection detailing FN-2187's service records.
"FN-2187 reported to my division, was evaluated and sent to reconditioning." Phasma explained her stoyr about FN-2187.
"No prior signs of non-conformity?" Hux said, checking the records.
"This was his first offense." Phasma said. "While I am entirely in support of unit cohesion, General, a stormtrooper's loyalty must be higher, as you know. It must be to the First Order, not to one's comrades."
That was when Officer Unamo had been checking her readings after Poe and Finn escaped.
"General. They've been hit." Unamo reported to Hux.
"Destroyed?" Hux asked her.
"Disabled." Unamo answered while getting the readings. "They were headed back to Jakku. The fighter's projected to crash in the Goazon badlands."
"They were going back for the droid." Hux said. "Send a squad to the wreckage."
That was when he was joined by Maber Yeff, who seemed quite disappointed.
"This is not good news, general." Maber said.
"Supreme Leader Snoke was explicit." Hux said. "Capture the droid if we can, but destroy it if we must."
"How capable are your soldiers, General?" Maber asked about the stormtroopers.
"I won't have you question my methods." Hux argued.
"Well, they're obviously skilled at committing high treason." Maber pointed out. "Perhaps Leader Snoke should consider using a clone army.
"My troops are exceptionally trained, programmed from birth." Hux continued to argue against Maber's idea in using a clone army.
"Then they should have no problem retrieving the droid... unharmed." Maber said.
"Careful, Maber." Hux warned. "That your "personal interests" not interfere with orders from Leader Snoke."
"I don't have time to argue, general." Maber said, giving him a glare. "For now, I want those maps immediately. And perhaps for your sake, I suggest you get it."