The next few days were tedious and very boring for Rey, but she stayed true to her Master's orders for she craved his approval and praise that she would receive as a reward for the completion of her mission as all insecure human beings at some point or another in their lives do. She found her mind void of all thoughts due to the icy and frigid atmosphere infiltrating everything, even the mental parts of her soul, and due to that, she was able to meditate without any interruptions. She also set up a dummy and practiced her hand to hand combat skills on it; if she couldn't use a weapon in order to fight, she could have at least sharpened her capabilities when it came to fighting with her fists and her feet.
Kylo Ren and the First Order arrived on Rey's seventh day on the Resistance base. They marched straight past her barricades in the middle of the night while Rey was still asleep. Rey had learned how to use the Force to put herself to sleep on her third day on the base, and she found herself unable to sleep the night that The First Order appeared on the frozen tundra. Kylo Ren stormed into the barracks where Rey had made camp, his lightsaber was out and flying sparks as he slashed apart various objects that stood in his way. When he finally reached the former Scavenger, he looked down at her sleeping form before glancing at the lightsaber in his hand. He could have executed her then, sliced her head neatly from her body in an inhumane but swift manner. He needed the map though, and it would be difficult to retrieve it from her, even more so than the last time that she had been under his capture.
Kylo Ren snatched the girl into his arms and marched past his Knights of Ren and Stormtroopers, storming out of the barracks and the base as he tried to contain his anger. His hostile attitude caused several of his Knights to race back up onto the ship that they had arrived in as well as a copious amount of Stormtroopers to turn around from where they were marching off of the ship. He walked swiftly past everyone and straight to the front of the ship, not giving a glance to anyone else but the pilot.
"I have the girl; it is time to leave," he ordered gruffly through his mask before he walked out of the control part of the ship and into the containment area. He walked into one of the cells that had been built into the walls of the ship – the ship was made originally for capturing and returning prisoners and Resistance fighters – and set the girl down on the metal bench before walking back out and locking the door. He stood there and stared at the young Jedi, fuming as he waited for her to wake up.
Two things made Rey realize that she was no longer on the Resistance base. One, the cold atmosphere of Hoth had vanished, and although it was not sweltering or room temperature, the place that she was residing in was much warmer than the base had been, and two, she was not lying on the cold mattress that she had become accustomed to lying on the last few days. Instead, she was lying on a hard and cold piece of metal that she could only assume was a bench. Her eyes flashed open, and when she saw the metallic roof above her, it took but all of her energy to not let her anger consume her and attempt to kill Kylo Ren where he stood behind the bars of her cage. She sat up swiftly, giving him a look of treachery, disgust, and hatred. She closed her eyes tight and breathed in through her nose and out through her mouth, using the techniques that Master Luke had taught her in order to calm herself down. Finally, she had channeled the Force into containing her emotions until they were nothing but a constant buzzing in the back of her mind.
"I must say that I am impressed," Kylo Ren spoke, his voice deep and muffled by the black mask that he wore on his face. Anyone that wore a mask was a coward to Rey, someone who had something to hide, someone that wasn't themselves. She had only seen him twice without his mask; once when he was interrogating her about Luke Skywalker's map, and the second time when she had defeated him and left an effacing mark upon his visage. She stared deep into the mask at the place where she imagined his eyes would be.
"Why must you say that?" She asked, her voice just a hint snarky.
"The way you controlled your emotions so quickly, that was impressive," he must have been smirking underneath his helmet, "and I am surprised that you learned that from Skywalker. He could never control anyone when it came to keeping their emotions suppressed. He didn't know that the human body is not capable of suppressing all emotion."
"That's why those who can't control their emotions turn to the Dark side," Rey retorted back and then quickly shut her mouth, refusing to say another word to her captor.
"Why were you on Hoth? Where is Skywalker? It is time that you tell me, Scavenger," Kylo Ren demanded, clutching one of the bars of the cage with his hand. Rey turned her face away from him to stare at the wall; she mentally pictured herself building up her mental wall even further in attempts to keep him out of her mind. She also filled her thoughts with images of the sand dunes of Jakku and of the freezing tundra of Hoth, giving him meaningless memories in order to keep him out of the most valuable and important ones.
"Where is Skywalker?" Ren repeated and began to clutch another bar with his left hand. Rey could see in her periphery vision that he was leaving slight indentions and imprints in the bars, and she turned her head even further away from his gaze. "Give me the map, Scavenger, tell me the whereabouts of Luke Skywalker."
Rey kept her eyes in front of her, refusing to let Kylo Ren witness any sign of weakness from her. She closed them briefly to keep her concentration steady and to not let it waver. There is no emotion; there is only peace, and there is only serenity, Rey thought to herself. There is no emotion; there is only peace, and there is only serenity.
"Fine, if you won't tell me now but you'll tell me sooner or later once we arrive at Lenre Station," Kylo Ren threatened, his voice dark and angry as he spit the words out at Rey.
"And pray tell, what is Lenre Station?" Rey asked, her voice coy and monotone.
"You'll know soon enough," he billowed and walked out of the prisoner containment area, his cape sweeping across the floor behind him.
Rey wasted away in the prisoner cell for around two hours before she felt the ship dock and stop. She opened her eyes and unfolded her legs from the meditating stance that she had taken up during the trip. She turned to look at the cell door as it was unlocked by one Kylo Ren. He walked into the cell and grabbed her bicep, pulling her up quickly and harshly as he tugged her towards the cell door. He walked her out in a fastidious manner, and Rey managed to keep her grimaces and winces off of her face. She knew that a dark purple and hideous bruise would be forming on her upper arm in a few moments.
"Where are we, Ben Solo?" She asked cautiously, keeping her voice low and steady. Kylo Ren halted in his place, and with the hand that he wasn't holding, he took out his lightsaber.
"What did you just address me as?" He asked, his finger hovering over the button that would initiate the red sparks and glow of his lightsaber.
"I didn't address you, Kylo Ren," she declared, "I addressed Ben Solo who is inside you but in a comatose state at the moment. I asked Ben where are we, but he didn't answer. And you only answered my question with another question, Kylo Ren, so please, if Ben will not answer me, I will ask you: Where are we?"
"Listen here, you little Scavenger Brat," he growled through clenched teeth, the inside of his mask becoming saturated with spittle. "I am not Ben Solo. Ben Solo has long been dead, and he is not comatose as you said. The only person who resides in this body is myself, Kylo Ren, not Ben Solo."
"Whatever you say, Ben Solo," she muttered, not flinching when Kylo Ren came so close to her face that his mask was a centimeter from her visage.
"We'll see what you're calling me when I'm through with interrogating you," he said with a deadly and ferocious smile as he grabbed a hold of her bicep again and dragged her the rest of the way out of the ship.
They made their way off of the platform and into a shiny, new black hangar that Rey had never seen before. There were around ten X-Wings and Ti-Fighters in total, all of them shiny and bright and new as well. Rey glanced around once, hiding her expression of slight awe with one of disgust.
"Hurry up; you are too slow," Kylo Ren's voice made Rey turn back to the task at hand, to get to wherever he was taking her. Kylo Ren walked her out of the hangar and down a series of hallways, making a copious amount of various twists and turns that even Rey could not follow and memorize. Finally, it seemed an endless amount of time before they stopped in front of a door. Kylo Ren held up his hand to a pad on the outside of the door. The pad scanned his hand before opening the door to reveal a cell that resembled very closely the cell that Rey had been interrogated in on Star Killer Base. Kylo Ren forced her into the chair and locked restraints around her wrists and ankles as the hissing of the door sounded, signaling the close of the door.
"Now, tell me where Luke Skywalker is? Let me have the map," Kylo Ren demanded, standing domineeringly in front of Rey. Rey kept her lips tightly closed, refusing to say a word about her Master. She closed off her mind even further, adding in pointless lyrics to a song she had heard back on Jakku.
"I don't know who you think you are, Scavenger," Kylo Ren hissed, placing his hands on the outside of her wrists, resting them on the arm rests that she was restrained to. "But I am Kylo Ren, leader of the Knights of Ren. No one is more important than me other than Supreme Leader Snoke. I take what I want, and if you won't give the information to me then, I will just have to take it for myself."
Rey immediately felt a probing in her mind once Kylo Ren finished talking. She threw the song lyrics at him in her head, building her wall even taller and thicker to keep him away from everything that was inside of her mind.
"If I can't obtain it through your mental shield, I'll just have to find other ways to obtain it." A piercing pain rushed through Rey's head and arms, and she felt as if every bone in her body had been broken. She fought to keep her teeth clenched and not let out an excruciating scream. Instead, she fought against the pain with the Jedi code: There is no pain, there is only peace. There is no pain, there is only peace. There is no pain, there is only peace. Finally, after what seemed like countless hours of heart wrenching pain, it started to dissipate and disappear as the Jedi Code took over every one of Rey's senses.
"Stop fighting me, and I wouldn't have to do this," Kylo Ren's voice sounded strangely tortured as he held a hand up in front of her to keep the pain caused by the Force on her steady. She glanced up at him, her thoughts dazed and confused as she attempted to sort through his expression. He seemed to be the one in pain, not her, and Rey wondered why that was because of the dark anger he had harbored for her earlier. It couldn't have been because he didn't like anyone because he killed Han Solo, his very own father, in front of her own eyes rather quickly. But, she didn't get to look into his eyes, and she didn't see the struggle that he was fighting against.
"Is that what you said to your father before you killed him, Ben Solo?" She spat out, forcing the pain out of her mind and body. She pushed it so far away that all that was left was a tingling sensation spreading throughout her body.
"I told you that I am not Ben Solo!" Kylo Ren roared, forcing his hand away from her in order to levitate a table and through it against the wall. Rey panted as the pain finally disappeared from her mind and body and she could finally drop the pretense of the Jedi Code. She flinched as shards from the table rained down on her and shattered around her. Kylo Ren gave her one last glare before tightening the restraints on her ankles and wrists with the Force and storming out of the room. Rey only sighed as the cell door closed behind the dark and brooding former Jedi.