Fall of the New Republic

A Killer in Hosnian Prime

Hux and Phasma quickly started inspecting every single agent on the bridge very carefully. Iolande was standing next to her desk waiting for her turn to be inspected. She had already taken care of the situation, but was still slightly nervous.

In a few minutes, Hux was there, standing in front of her with a serious expression. Iolande stood straight and firm. "Iolande, I wouldn't like doubting your allegiance, but I can't make a difference with one person, I'm gonna have to inspect your desk."

Iolande looked at him in the eye. "I assure you General, my loyalty is with the First Order." She replied. "I'll be the judge of that." He said, she stepped back. "Go ahead General, I have nothing to hide." "We'll see." And with that Hux opened the desk's drawers and started looking for the retriever.

"General!" called Phasma loudly. Hux turned around to see her pointing her blaster at Lieutenant Chance, he approached them and started at him in a threatening way. "Please General! I've never seen that thing before!" he said with panic notorious in his voice.

"The retriever is in your desk, and that only means one thing... You are the mole!" Said Hux angrily. "Iolande." He called, she walked towards him. "Check the activity reports of the retriever." He ordered as he handed her the retriever, she took it and went through the historial.

"The retriever did extract the plans and they were sent to a senator in the New Republic." She said calmly, Hux was already furious. "What... senator?" he asked in low voice. Iolande felt intimidated by the way he was speaking. "Senator June Waller of New Vyllia."

Hux nodded. "Look in the archives for the best bounty hunters in the galaxy... We have a politician to eliminate." He said. "What do we do with this piece of trash?" asked Phasma, "Get rid of him." He ordered. Chance started pleading for his life to no avail, Phasma shot him through the head, killing him and earning a flinch from every other operative in the Bridge.

A few minutes later, Iolande finally found a bounty hunter that might be useful. "General, I found a Bounty Hunter you might like." Hux looked at her. "Who might that be?" he asked as she handed him the holopad. "Jeers Attiss from Nal Hutta." He looked through his profile and was greatly impressed: Kaleesh, incredibly skilled with a knife, decent skills in unarmed combat, and known for killing a vast number of dangerous criminals. Hux liked him indeed.

"Very well. Contact him, he's hired." He replied with an evil smirk. "Will do sir." Said Iolande. Hux exited the bridge and Iolande returned to her desk and hired him using a secret communications network. He accepted to kill June in exchange of five hundred thousand credits (An amount the First Order could pay). Iolande became worried, she knew June might not survive that kind of threat.

Next evening, on Hosnian Prime, June was sitting in Senator Mortan's penthouse. He had organized a dinner for both the centrists and populists so that they could come to an agreement in regards of improving trade relations with the Trans-Hydian Borderlands, or so he clamied. Every member of the senate knew that Mortan usually used political issues as an excuse to make everyone come to his galas.

June was just sitting in the table with her head on her hand. "Come on dear." Said Senator Vicly. "Change that frown, you should be enjoying yourself." June scoffed. "We should be discussing real solutions for real problems and trying to cooperate with each other instead of being in different factions, not wasting time in a gala." She replied in a bored tone.

"Try to have fun my friend, you're twenty-four, you're not gonna be that young forever." Said Vicly, June sighed. "If you say so, Senator Vicly." She replied. Suddenly a yell came from Senator Madmund. "The champagne is over, what are we gonna drink now?" "There's more in the store room." Said Senator Mortan, just as June stood up. "I'll go fetch it." She said. "Are you sure Senator Waller?" asked Senator Madmund.

"I'm very sure, it's way better than to sit here doing nothing." She replied. "Where's the store room?" "Down the hall, third room to the right." Said Senator Mortan as he pointed towards a hall with no lights. June nodded and walked towards it.

Soon, June entered the third room to her right, completely unaware that there was a strange dark figure following her. She looked in the shelves for a box of champagne and finally found it. However, just as she was about to pick it up, she heard a soft footstep approaching her.

She turned around and saw Jeers Attiss himself, holding a dagger, ready to stab her to death. He swung the dagger, trying to slit her throat, but missed. June quickly disarmed him with a kick and tried to punch him, but he caught her fist and shoved her to the floor.

In a quick movement, he grabbed the dagger and attempted to stab her, she rolled out of the way and stood up. She tackled him and tried to take the dagger from him, but he resisted and rolled them over so he was pinning her down. He scratched her right arm, making her groan, then attempted to stab her face, only for June to catch it and grab the blade of the dagger with her left hand, cutting herself.

She poked his eye with strength, making him scream in pain and head-butted him, allowing her to push him off her. She took the knife and threw it away, just as Jeers came back to his senses. Soon both started trading blows, with Jeers punching June in the face and she kneeing him in the stomach, he then pulled her hair violently, but she was able to resist and bite his wrist.

He yelled in pain and threw her against the shelf. He tried to attack her again, but June grabbed a cup from the shelf and broke it in his face. She proceeded to kick and punch him until he kicked her in the mouth, making her bleed. He grabbed a corkscrew and pinned her against a wall and tried to stab her, but she dodged and he hit the wall instead, she banged his head in the wall, disorienting him, then grabbed him and threw him through a window that was in the room, making him fall thirteen floors to his death.

June looked as he hit the ground and sat in the floor, tired, panting and with her hand and arm bleeding, suddenly Senator Cleon Hekat from Coruscant entered the room. He was June's best friend in the senate (enough for both to call each other by their first names when proper) and he was a near human (he had sky blue lips and pointy ears) that was two months younger than her.

"June!" he yelled as soon as he saw her, she jogged towards her and bent down. "What happened to you?" he said concerned as she saw her cuts. By now blood was dripping from her lavender skin. "A kaleesh tried to kill me." Cleon's eyes became large with shock. "But why?" "I'm not sure if this is the best place to talk about it. Maybe we can talk back at my apartment."

Clean stood up and offered her hand, she took it and both walked back to the main room.

Senator Vicly almost fainted when she saw June. "Oh my force dear! Are you okay?" she yelled, much like a mother would. "Don't worry Senator Vicly, I'm okay." She replied. "And what happened with the champagne?" asked Senator Madmund. "Forget the darn champagne Madmund, if you want it go fetch it yourself!" Yelled Cleon.

"Now if you don't mind, I'm taking Senator Waller home. Good night." He said, and with that they went down the elevator, exited the building and walked to Cleon's speeder.