Chapter Ten: The Fight
Chapter 10: The Fight
Bini Filters's POV
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"The Falcon's this way." Finn managed to crock out as he grabbed our arms and we ran into the snowy forest, as we ran along I am sure we were all overcome with emotion. Suddenly we all came to a sudden stop out of breathe. I looked up and saw Kylo Ren...Ben standing in front of us. Looking broken, angry and heartbroken.
Oh, this can't be happening.
"We're not done yet." He growled.
"You're a monster!" Rey yelled. I stayed silent. Not wanting to reveal my association to the guy who just killed his own Father!
"It's just us now. Han Solo can't save you." He growled. Rey moved forward with a blaster, aiming it as him. Ben raised his hand to use the force to stop him, straining due to his wound. he flicked it out of her hand and yanked her back, slamming her into a tree thirty feet away. She cried to pain, knocking her out as she hit the trunk. She dropped hard on the ground. Very hurt. Finn quickly ran over trying to revive Rey. Desperately calling her name.
"Rey! Rey! Rey... Rey... Oh no. Oh no no no..." He cried out as Ben spun his lightsabre, causing Finn to be brought back to reality.
"TRAITOR!" He yelled in anger. Finn ripped out Luke's lightsaber and ignited it. Ben flinched in shock then pointed towards it with his lightsabre. "That lightsaber. It belongs to me!"
"Come get it." Finn barked. Ben growled. He lunged at Finn, lightsabres clashed together as they did some fancy moves. Finn managed to hit Ben in the arm. Causing him to stumbled back to pain. He charged again and started making more powerful moves, pushing Finn back until he loses balance. That's when Ben lands a blow against Finn's torso, causing the lightsabre to fly from Finn's hand twenty feet away. Rey raised her head slightly, dazed and still injured. She needs a few minutes and clearly won't remember what I am about to do.
Ben raised his hand towards the lightsabre. I quickly used the force to swing it past him and hit the ground in front of me. He spun around to see me, anger and rage were written on his face at the sight of me. I yanked out my lightsabre and ignited the double-bladed blue sabre.
"No way in hell are you getting this sabre. You are going to have to kill me to get it." I barked. Without a word, he swung at me. I blocked it quickly, using the force to knock him back. Then rushing towards him, I spun around and clashed with the sabre, flying around, trying to disable him as the ground shook as the planet fell apart beneath our feet.
I stumbled back as he grazed my injured arm. I tried to ignore the pain as I aimed for his stomach. He yanked me forward, throwing me into the ground, causing my lightsabre to tumbled out of my hands. With one swift move he cut it in half, destroying it. I looked up at him with wide eyes of shock and fear. He used the force to leviate me into the air. Force chocking me.
I gasped for breath as my vision went spotty and dark.
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Rey's POV
I opened my eyes again to see Bini being lifted in the air. She struggled as Kylo force chocked her. She struggled for a moment as she tried to breath but succumbed to the darkness and passed out. Kylo dropped her to the ground. Turning to Luke's lightsabre again.
He reached out for it but I also did. The lightsabre whizzed past him to go into my hands. He spun to look at me in shock, I looked back at him with equal shock, I didn't think it would work! I tightened my grip and ignited it to face him down. My eyes blazing.
We started clashing lightsabres.
Among the white trees were only us, fighting. Kylo wasn't as powerful as he usually was, his injuries were taking a tole on him as a colossal chunk of the forest right behind me dropped away, revealing a massive cliff into the centre of the planet.
Our lightsabres connected and I leaned back towards the cliff as he pushed his weight into the fight.
"You need a teacher! I can show you the ways of the Force!"
"W-What?" I whispered. Unsure of my next move. For a beat, I was tempted. No. I closed my eyes. tapping into something dark in the force. Feeling centred and fortified. I hit him back with the force, fast and furious. He fell back. I attacked harder, his blade goes flying tumbling into the snow. I looked briefly over to Bini to see her crawling desperately towards an object in the snow. I turned back to the fight, slashing at his face, causing a large gash to go across his face as he tumbled into the snow, breathing heavily. The ground split again, separating us. I looked over to see Finn on my side, Bini with Kylo Ren. Looking back at me with a surprising calm expression.
"Go!" She ordered.
"Bini, I can-"
"No. Leave me and go!" I ordered. I hesitantly stepped towards Finn, looking back at her.
"The resistance will come back for you!" I replied. Helping Finn up and running towards the Falcon desperately.
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Bini Filters's POV
I looked down at Ben as he looked up at me, slowly getting up.
"You could have escaped." He pointed out as he stumbled up in pain. I clutched the broken pieces of my lightsabre and put them into my satchel.
"I could have, but I couldn't risk her seeing what I am." I admitted. "Besides...Someone needs to get you off this planet." I said. Grabbing his arm and walking back towards the main base, having his weight lean on me as he can barely walk.
"They-They are going to take you, prisoner."
"I know. I know, Ben."
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General's Hux's POV
"Supreme Leader." I said as I entered the assembly room where the holographic supreme leader was waiting for me. I flinched as I heard distant screams and shouts as the planet fell apart, thanks to the resistance. I was trying to keep it together but was horrified and heartsick. "The fuel cells have ruptured. The collapse of the planet has begun."
Snoke takes this in. Furious, desolate... knowing.
"Leave the base at once and come to me with Kylo Ren." He ordered. "It is time to complete his training."
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Rey's POV
"Wuuh uughghhhgh huuguughghg?" Chewie asked as he carried Finn onto the ship and I followed behind him onto the Falcon.
"I-I had to leave Bini behind. She was separated from us in the fight with Kylo Ren." I replied sadly. "I am so sorry about Han, Chewie."
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(The Flacon leaves with the X-wings who were attacking the planet raised into space as the planet exploded, followed by the First Order ships. Separating into their own directions.)
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Rey's POV
The Falcon lands among the resistance ships at the base. Poe is outside, watches as Chewie lays Finn down on a hover bed and medical personnel user him to the medical facility.
"Easy, easy. He's hurt. We've got a heartbeat." One of the medical personal says as they took him away. I walked down the ramp to see, for the first time, Leia. C-3PO, BB-3 and BB-8 in front of me.. The crowd was cheering. I was so sad for Leia, so sorry. The two of us move for each other. And Leia takes my face in her hands. Despite her heartbreak, she is grateful. She embraces me. A mother's embrace. I cried, too, in this emotional first meeting.
BB-3 rolled up and tapped me on the leg. I reluctantly pulled back from Leia. BB-3 was clearly wanting to know where its friend was.
"Bini...Bini is a prisoner of the First Order." I relayed. The droid beeping in concern and sadness. It rolled away from me, leaving it's head down in sadness at the loss of its owner and friend.
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Chewbacca sits quietly, as do many in the base, mourning their losses. As BB-8 approaches R2-D2, the long-dormant droid suddenly stirs. The droids beep at each other.
"R2-D2! You've come back! You found what? How dare you call me that!"
He swats R2-D2, who continues beeping.
"Find Master Luke how? Come, R2! We must go tell the others at once!"
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Leia's POV
I stood alone. In silence. Heartbroken at my husband's passing at the hands of my own son. Heartbroken. That Ben's only friend...Is now in the hands of the First Order. What happens if she turns?
"General?" C-3PO called out. I lifted my head to see R2D2 and C-3PO. "Excuse me, General? R2-D2 may contain some much needed good news."
"Tell me," I ordered in excitement. Rey stood to stand beside me with Poe and a handful of others as R2D2 projected a hologram. A piece of the map that fits the puzzle. It completes the map. The map to luke.
"Oh! The map! It is complete!"
"Luke"
The room erupted in cheers and embraces.
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(The Next Day)
Rey's POV
Chewie does last-minute checks on the Falcon as I walked towards the Falcon.
"Rey."
I turned around to see Leia. Smiling back at me.
"May the Force be with you." I smiled back gratefully. Then I walked up the ramp and entered the Flacon to a new journey. I took the pilot seat with Chewie as a co-pilot.
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Leia's POV
I smiled as the Falcon rose to the sky, a officer quickly ran up to me in panic.
"General? General?"
"Yes?" I replied.
"One of the smaller ships are gone with BB-3."
My heart sunk. That droid is going to its owner.
"Are we able to send a rescue squadron to Bini's location? Maybe we can stop BB-3 also-"
"No. We don't have the resources."
I turned back to the Falcon as it disappeared. Praying they get Luke.
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Rey's POV
I trudged up the considerably big mountain on a tiny island. I reached the top of the beautiful landscape to see a cloaked figure. The figure slowly turned, I was surprised I couldn't sense them in the force, he took off his hood to reveal Luke Skywalker. Older. Staring back at me.
In response. I pulled out his lightsabre and held it out towards him in silence.
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Bini Filters's POV
I was dragged into Ben's...What would you call it...?
Office? Yeah, let's go with that.
The stormtroopers dropped me to the floor with BB-3 beside me, who got caught pretty easily. Thankfully, thanks to Ben, they didn't destroy it and let it stay with me as long as I didn't try to escape. Personally I think I have been a pretty good prisoner.
Ben stood in front of me with his mask on. Probably hiding that awful gash on the face Rey gave him.
"Bini." He said. Pacing around me. "I have an offer."
"Oh goody. This better be good."
"You need a teacher. The dark side can do so much more for you than the light. The resistance has abandoned you. You know it's true."
"I-I..." I stammered. Unable to respond. He held out his hand towards me.
"Join the dark side. You have nothing to lose. The resistance doesn't care about you. All they care about is finding Luke Skywalker. They can't waste their time on you. You can keep your droid if you do."
He has a point. No one is coming to save me. And that threat is pretty real. BB-3 is my best friend.
I nodded and grabbed his hand. Shaking it.
"I am going to need a new sabre though."
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AN: New book: The Last Jedi (AU) is next.