The Queen of the Dark | Kylo Ren

Baring Teeth

          There she was again. Running.

          This time she was running through the Star Destroyer, looking to and for for the main hangar

          She mentally berates herself for not paying more attention as she meandered the halls with the Knights of Ren earlier. Then, maybe, she might not have to panic so much at this moment.

          At a certain point, she grabs one of the stormtroopers, pulling them by the top edge of their torso armor. She screams at them to point her towards the main hangar, but a hand clings to her bicep, pushing her down a different hallway. When she looks up, she sees the metal helmet of Kylo Ren. At first, she fights his hold, but when she hears more soldiers and stormtroopers through one hallway, she finally understands what he was planning for her.

          The main hangar opens up to them in a flash. It's rioting with movement and screeching orders. Lines are formed in front of large carriers and an assembly line has formed for arming the soldiers piling into said carriers.

          Xiia is pleased with the sight, but the panic she feels inside doesn't subside. She spins to Kylo Ren, still clutching her arm in his grip, "Send the battalions on Dioyan soil."

          She steps forward, but immediately gets thrown back to Kylo's side.

          The panic that she has let seep into the Force is uncontrolled, the Supreme Leader knows that much. He knows that she is running on pure instinct, but he needs her with a clear mind. Which is why he squeezes her arm hard and forces her to face him, "You will not fight on the grounds."

          Xiia's mind twirls inside the barriers of her skull. The unexpected yank caught her off guard, but the words that Kylo Ren speaks through the vocal distorter in his mask brings her back to reality.

          "I will do what I must to save my planet, Supreme Leader. At a certain point, I believe you will learn that."

          The Supreme Leader groans inside of his mask. In the corner of his eye, he spots the Command Shuttle waiting patiently as General Hux boards its haul. Lifting his free hand, Kylo Ren points to his ship, "Then, go."

          Xiia follows his finger to the Command Shuttle and doesn't wait another second before shaking off Kylo's grip and taking off to the spacecraft.

          The next few moments were a blur for both of the monarchs.

          Xiia can distinctly remember boarding the shuttle, but cannot recollect exiting the Star Destroyer.

          Kylo seems to remember the anger he felt when he caught General Hux's lingering gaze on both him and Xiia, but cannot seem to place when they exactly entered Dioya's atmosphere. He had planned that the Destroyer stay near the base in any case that the Chiss plan to take it back from their absence.

          Coming out of lightspeed, Xiia almost screams as she finds a large cloud of smoke on the surface of her planet. She hears her voice giving the technicians the order to touch down on the planet, but the only thing is focus on the hole in her defense. She has never seen it this terrible. The hole was twice as big as the last time she had seen it.

          They zip through the atmosphere of the planet, and with a pointing hand of it's monarch, the Command Shuttle touches down on the field where chaos has taken on a personified form. It was safe to assume that Dioya's resources had dwindled with what looked like to be whole units lying on the ruined field in front of the Jakorr Palace. However, with the addition of the roaring First Order troops, a shock of hope seeps into the muddy ground.