"Brace for landing!" The pilot yelled, and I held onto the sides of the chair as the shuttle thudded across the muddy bottom of D'Qar. I felt my helmet shake around my head and my hood toppled onto my shoulders.
When the shuttle came to a complete stop, Kylo Ren got up out of his chair and adressed us.
"Prepare to exit the shuttle. Do not stray too far from each other, and do not let anything withhold you from completing the mission." He barked, pulling his hood over his helmet and pushing his cloak off of his shoulders and behind his back.
The door dropped down and exposed the battle scene. Ren stalked out of the ship and a few Knights ran ahead of him and knocked away some figures in orange garb. I trailed behind him.
The air was thick and hot, and if it had not been so moist I could've closed my eyes and found myself on Jakku, which would've been a sick fate.
There were contrails from fighters criss crossed throughout the sky, planes blowing through the air and whirring above our heads. Blaster shots flew through the air from every direction. I watched another shuttle land to my left and 30 fresh stormtroopers came spilling out of its doors. There were resistance fighters wherever you looked; some fighters were ducked behind ships, some behind trees, and some rustling in the bushes. The booms of explosions could be heard in the distance. Someone far away was sent flying through the air.
As we approached the base I watched several storm troopers back up, launch a small explosive, and create a hole in the side of the building. Ren held out his hand and Force-pushed the new rubble out of the way. A couple cinderblocks were strewn to his side and smashed right into a grounded resistance x-wing. It caught flame but everyone was preoccupied.
Two Knights jumped in the hole and Ren stepped onto the edge of the opening, his hand against the side. He looked around and jumped down after them, his Force willing us to follow. I stepped onto the edge of the opening and dropped into the base, landing in a hallway illuminated by now sparky LED pipes that ran along the edges of the walls. Kylo pointed down one direction of the hall and the two leading Knights began to move. Ren left two knights by the hole to ensure the First Order's control over the newly created entrance.
We ran down the hall for some time as it sloped slightly to the left and we finally came upon a door with a handprint reader. A knight stepped up and tried to read a previous handprint, but he took to long and Kylo grew impatient. He Force-pulled at the door and it collapsed inward, exposing a small fleet of resistance fighters that were very apparently waiting for us.
Several blaster shots fired and were immediately stopped and reversed, but not all had been foreseen. I watched a blaster hit Shono in the shoulder and he toppled to the floor, distracting some Knights long enough for another shot to hit Syan. I looked up in time to deflect a shot away from my body with my electrostaff. A fighter approached me and I swung at him with my staff, sending electric shocks through him as metal made contact with his skin. He crumpled out of the way and I Force-stopped another blaster shot a foot from my head. I sent it back and whipped my body around just as another fighter attacked me. I delivered a kick to his chest and knocked him out with a punch in the jaw.
I turned around and watched the other Knights finish off the rest of their squad. Kylo's head nodded in a forward direction and he stepped over five or six resistance bodies. We looked to Syan and Shono, who were in pretty bad shape. I sensed him contact the medics and he grumbled an instruction to keep moving forward.
We continued through the halls and down several flights of steps. We came to another handprint reader and Ren wasted no time destroying the door. it opened into a large hangar that had several levels of walkway lined up and down the walls. There were automatic blaster cannons pointed at the door, which shot as soon as the door came down, and one shot hit a Knight behind me. I deflected a shot with my staff and sent it spiraling into another cannon, which exploded on contact. Lestros shot at a few, and another Knight threw something at the last one.
We began climbing up a ladder that reached up along the curved walls of the hangar and stepped onto a platform. As soon as a Knight's foot hit the steel, a fleet of fighters came running out from a hallway attached to the platform. The rest of the Knights scrambled up the ladder to assist the overwhelmed Lestros, who was leading the group.
We knocked several off the platform but they kept coming, and the fighting ground was very small. I started to see more and more fighters when suddenly Ren waved his arm and everyone froze in their places. I was frozen as well, and I watched through my helmet as Kylo picked up fighters and threw them off the side of the platform with no resistance. After tossing most of them, he turned his gaze to the wave that was in the middle of entering. He held out a hand and they all crumpled to the floor. He waved his arm again and each Knight stumbled into control of their own bodies.
We climbed the next ladder towards a platform that stretched across the diameter of the hangar. As the second to last Knight climbed up, the last Knight got hit with an arrow from a crossbow and let go of the ladder. We didn't have time to watch his body fall because the wail of a Wookiee completely distracted us. We turned and we saw it across the platform, giant and holding a dangerous weapon. It shot another Knight and I held out my hand, gripping its consciousness and causing it to pass out.
"We're close" Ren grumbled, his signature reaching through the Force. He stepped over the unconscious Wookiee and continued.
"Stay close. Remember the goal." His light saber sparked into ignition. I held out my staff and I took a step forward. I approached a door and I could practically smell victory. I kicked open the door and leapt inside, my staff up and in position to defend any impending attacks.
All I saw before I passed out was the look of a very distraught Leia.