Song for this chapter: No Mercy by KIT
Ben stared at Anya sitting in the throne. She looked wicked as she kicked Snoke.
"What are you going to do," Snoke growled as he glared up at her. "There is still an army that will stand behind me. When they find out…"
"Shut up!" Anya snapped kicking Snoke causing him to land on his hands and knees as she placed her feet on his back like he was a footrest.
"Anya!" Ben gasped and Anya turned to look at Ben and for a split second, she looked at him with the same angry look that she looked at Snoke with. Her look quickly soften as she smiled slightly at him.
"Captain Phasma," Anya called as she stood up out of the throne.
"Yes Ma'am," Phasma responded and Ben turned to look at her. He couldn't believe that Phasma was now listening and obeying whatever Anya said.
"Round everyone up, I want to speak to them." Anya said and Phasma nodded as she turned and walked away and into the elevator.
"Anya, what are you doing?" Ben asked as he inched towards her. "You can't go speak to everyone on the base when they find out what you did to Hux…" Ben started
"What are they going to do Ben, they can't touch me." She smiled as she looked around at the guards who were no longer trying to attack her instead they were just looking at her, waiting for a command. "I am the new supreme leader!"
"You are not…" Snoke started again when Anya quickly turned around hand out.
"You will not say another word unless I allow you too!" She snapped and Snoke repeated what she said in a monotone voice. And Ben's jaw about hit the floor as he watched Snoke's mouth shut.
Anya laughed giddily as she turned towards Ben again.
"Look at what I can do!" She laughed as she ran over to him grabbing his hand.
Ben was so confused he just stared at her looking her up and down. She looked exactly the same but there was a new look in her eye, one that Ben slightly recognized, it was the look of power, but what terrified Ben wasn't the look of power, it was the look of she actually loved the manipulation.
"Alright, let's go." She said as she turned back to Snoke holding her hand out again. "You will not move from this spot until I tell you too."
"I will not move from this spot until you tell me too."
Anya smiled as she turned to the guards.
"You are now under my control, your job is to protect Ben and me against anyone or anything. Is that understood!" She yelled and all the guards saluted her. "Head upstairs!"
All the guards turned into sync and headed into the elevator leaving the throne room empty, leaving Ben and Anya alone, with an incapacitated Snoke watching them.
"Anya," Ben started as he turned to look at Snoke who had a slight smile on his face.
"Maybe I went after the wrong child all of those years ago." He heard Snoke say inside his head.
"Shut up!" Ben growled glaring at him.
"She the true savior of the Sith." He laughed inside Ben's head.
Ben reached for his saber when suddenly Anya turned to look at him.
"Come on." She said as they headed to the now empty elevator.
Ben followed Snoke's words still ringing in his head.
As he looked down the room at Snoke sitting on the floor in front of the throne, he couldn't help but feel a sense that Snoke had won.
When the doors shut Anya flung herself into Ben's arms kissing him as she wrapped her legs around his waist.
He was taken aback for a moment as he wrapped his arms around her, but he quickly pulled away.
"Anya what are you doing." He asked as he set her down.
"What do you mean?" She asked confused. "I am taking charge."
"You killed Hux." He said.
Anya took a step back angry.
"Yes, I fucking killed him he raped me, Ben! Were you not going to kill him." She snapped.
"That's not what I meant. You didn't just kill him, you tormented him. You tortured him."
"And what you were going to kill him painlessly." She scoffed.
"God no I was going to make him feel the worst pain in the world for what he did to you. I was going to slice him up into small pieces!" Ben screamed.
"Then why was it not okay for me to kill him like I did!"
"Because I am the bad one!" Ben screamed. "I am the one who does the murdering and the torturing remember, but you, you have to be the light, you have to be my light." He said almost in a whisper.
Anya chuckled slightly, but it wasn't her normal laugh, this was like the laugh she had used with Snoke.
"Ben I told you I'm not going over to the dark side." She said as she reached out and ran her fingers through his hair.
"Anya you just declared yourself the Supreme Leader." He sighed as he grabbed her hand.
"Yeah because that title is power!" Anya said as she ripped her hand out of his grasp. "No one is going to touch us if I hold this power. I can protect us."
"We don't need protecting, we can just run, let's just run, we can get in a ship and we can just go." Ben pleaded as he put his hand on her face.
"Now you want to run," She laughed as she backed away. "You were right, we can't run, in order to truly be safe we have to defeat the forces that want to destroy us, and what better way to destroy Snoke then to rule him." She said.
"But if you rule Snoke, you have to rule over the whole First Order."
"And what's wrong with that, I get them to do what I want and I protect the people I care about and we destroy the people I don't like." She smiled as the elevator doors opened and she strode out.
"Destroy, destroy who Anya?" He asked as he followed behind her. The guards lined the walls and as Ben and Anya walked by they followed close behind.
Anya didn't say another word as she walked ahead towards the loading docks.
"Anya," Ben started but Anya just ignored him.
As the doors to the loading dock opened Anya found the entire First Order fleet waiting for her command.
As she walked into on the podium, whispers began to spread through the crowd.
"Isn't that…"
"What is she doing with Master Ren?"
"Why is she standing behind the podium?"
"Are we having an execution?"
"Captain Phasma said the Supreme Leader was wanting to speak with us."
"Where is General Hux?"
"Everyone," Phasma started. "Supreme Leader Anya would like to speak to all of you."
The whispers quickly turned into roars of anger!
"Where is Supreme Leader Snoke?" They screamed causing Ben to take a step towards her.
"What happened to General Hux?" Others screamed as they began to head towards Anya.
"Anya, we have to go!" Ben screamed as he grabbed her arm.
"No, they can't hurt me!" Anya screamed back as now both Ben and Phasma were trying to get her out of the room as the guards surrounded her.
"Anya, they are going to tear you apart! Please." Ben pleaded when Anya quickly threw both him and Phasma to the side as she screamed shaking the entire ship silencing everyone.
"I am the new Supreme Leader, Snoke is now my prisoner, General Hux has been executed now if anyone has a problem with me, they can challenge me now!" Anya screamed but no one moved everyone froze. "Good, now I want all of the stormtroopers to remove their helmets," Everyone looked around for a moment before thousands of stormtroopers reached up and took of their helmets. "You are no longer a number, I want everyone to pick a name!"
"What are you doing?" Phasma asked as she stared up at Anya.
"Now my first command is we are going to storm Arkanis!" Anya screamed. "I want no one taken alive! No survivors and no prisoners is that understood!"
Everyone slammed their heels together as they saluted their new Supreme Leader.
"No Mercy!" Anya screamed
"No Mercy!" Everyone screamed back at her causing her to smile as she turned and walked off the podium Captain Phasma following closely behind.
Ben just stared up at the girl he loved and he didn't recognize her at all.
Anya reached out her hand to help Ben off the floor, a smile spread across her face, but Ben just stared up at her. Anya's smile quickly faded as she walked away leaving Ben on the floor.
"Ma'am, what would you like us to do about the Resistance?" Phasma asked.
"How much fuel do they have left?" Anya asked as Ben stood up trailing behind them.
"2 more days worth ma'am."
"Keep following them, we will focus on them more as soon as we take care of Arkanis." Anya insisted. "For now our focus needs to be destroying all life on that planet."
Ben finally broke as he stormed over to Anya roughly grabbing her arm.
Phasma reacted by grabbing Ben's arm.
"Ma'am?" She said.
"It's fine Phasma, just go to the bridge and run the attack, I'll be there after I talk with Master Ren." Anya growled as Phasma nodded letting go of Ben's arm then she left Ben and Anya alone.
"Anya." Ben started but Anya quickly ripped her arm from his grasp as she stormed down the hall with Ben following.
Neither one of them spoke a word until they entered Ben's bedroom.
"Anya," Ben tried again when suddenly he was thrown sideways into one of the chairs.
"What the fuck are you doing!" Anya screamed.
"What are you doing Anya!" Ben screamed back. "No mercy, what the fuck does that mean."
"It means what you think it means, I want everyone on that fucking planet annihilated. Hux was from that planet."
"That doesn't mean the entire planet needs to be destroyed!"
"Yes, that's exactly what it means, I'm going to destroy any person or planet that I want, because I can, and no one is going to stop me."
Ben opened his mouth to speak but quickly shut it, he had no words.
"I'm tired of being scared, I'm tired of feeling like I can't do anything but wait for someone to save me. I want to make it so people are afraid of me." She said lowering her voice.
"Anya please don't do this, you don't have to kill people to not be afraid anymore, I can help…"
Anya just starting laughing. Ben tried to get up by she pushed him back down into the chair.
"I don't have to kill people to not be afraid, that's really good Ben coming from the man who killed people, hundreds of people because he was angry and he was sad." She sneered.
"Anya."
"Don't!" Anya screamed back knocking the chair over causing Ben to fall to the floor. "Don't patronize me you piece of shit! You created me!"
"Stop," Ben said in almost a whisper.
"I did everything for you every decision every move I made since I was 19 years old was because of you! I was in a fucking coma for six years because of you!"
"Stop."
"And now I'm getting lectured by the great Kylo Ren about how killing people is wrong and that we should just run away and life will be better. I wanted to run away Ben, I wanted to run away two fucking weeks ago! If we would have left then none of this would have happened!" She screamed her voice cracking slightly. "But we can't change that now can we Kylo."
"Don't call me that," Ben growled bawling his hand up into a fist.
"Why you chose to become Kylo!" Anya screamed. "You chose to kill Ben Solo the minute you killed your father!" She flung Ben backward into the wall.
Angrily as Ben hit the floor again he bolted to his feet taking his lightsaber out but not turning it on.
Anya laughed again. "What are you going to do Ben, are you going to kill me." She said as she strode towards him. "Because we both know you can't do it." She walked all the way so she was inches from Ben. "Do it, Ben!" She screamed as she grabbing the lightsaber and placed it again her stomach.
Ben quickly let go of the lightsaber staring at Anya tears in his eyes.
"I didn't think so." Anya sneered as she turned to walk away the lightsaber still in her hands. "Don't leave this room."
Ben started to follow her when she quickly spun around glaring at him. "Don't make me make you stay." She snapped and Ben stopped letting her leave the room alone.
He waited for a moment barely able to comprehend what had just happened. His entire world had just shattered right in front of his eyes.
He couldn't break down however, he could collapse to the floor like he wanted to, it wasn't the time for that. He had to be strong, he had to save her from herself.
Quickly he left the room heading towards his Silencer, he knew he couldn't save Anya alone he needed the only other person who loved her as much as he did. He needed the best pilot in the Resistance.