The Dark Side - Part 7

A strong arm wraps around my chest from behind, holding me firmly. I grab at Kylo's arm but I can't break free of his iron grip, his chest like a brick wall against my back.

Finn and Poe point their blasters at him and he stretches his free hand out towards them.

Finn cringes and begins to choke.

"Finn!" I cry out.

Poe shoots his blaster at Kylo and he releases Finn long enough to deflect the shot back.

"Watch out!" I yell. The shot flies back at Poe. He ducks and I somersault forward, taking Kylo down with me. The shooting starts up again and Kylo cries out, getting hit by Poe's fire. He releases me and sends Poe flying into the wall . BB-8 beeps loudly.

More Stormtroopers come and Resistance fighters shoot at them.

I look behind me. Kylo's on the floor. He's bleeding. Another shot hits his shoulder and he jerks back. It's Finn, moving in on him.

"Stop!" I yell, tossing Finn back against the control panel behind him. He blinks, staring at me in confusion. A Stormtrooper fires at him and I deflect the shot.

"Come on!" he yells over the blaster shots, reaching out his hand to me. I run to him and take his hand. Suddenly my hip jerks backward as the light saber on my belt yanks me sideways.

Kylo's reaching for it. I slide back and Finn grips my hand tighter, pulling me in the opposite direction. The light saber unlatches from my belt with a click and I snatch it just in time before it goes flying to Kylo.

BB-8 appears and zaps Kylo's arm with a live wire. His hold releases, sending Finn and I flying forward.

The Resistance fighters are winning. They're shooting Kylo and he's holding them off as best he can. But there are too many of them. I turn back but Finn pulls my arm. "Let's go, Rey! This is a rescue mission," he says.

The Resistance fighters retreat, running down the hall and I run with them.

Kylo's still alive, I still feel him. But he's hurt.

Tears blur my vision and I don't see where we're running. Finn pulls me after him and I stumble along. I want to go back, but I can't. I can't reason with Kylo. Snoke is inside his mind somehow, bound to him in a way that he wasn't when we were on Yavin_4. Is that why Kylo was hiding out there? Away from Snoke's reach?

Suddenly I'm being strapped into a seat. There is yelling and rushing around. We're in a spacecraft of some sort. It lifts off the ground so fast my stomach does a little flip. More laser fire. The small ship blasts its way out into the darkness of space, flying fast, away from Kylo's ship and Hux's larger battleship. Away from everything. Finn talks but I can't hear his words, all I can hear are Snoke's words playing over and over in my mind,

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