Interrogating Hux , General Hux x Reader

Part 10 - resistance

Convincing Poe was a doddle. On the shuttle, his fingers traced down the cut on my cheek, his touch gentle, voice concerned. Always keen to be the hero, there to help, make it better. He'd agree to my plan, his guilt for me having been lost in the First Order for so long written plain on his features.

"Tell me what happened. How did you survive, how did you escape?"

"I, I can't talk about it yet...I did what I needed to do to survive" Which was mostly true. I thought about how much relied on this plan working and tears welled up "I need to tell you something, you need to tell the Resistance, there's something terrible coming"

The plan was simple. Correction, the plan as I told Poe and his Resistance cell was simple. It was just a matter of getting them to believe me and do what I needed them to do. Which I did, convincingly.

Unfortunately, that hadn't stopped it going completely tits up once on Kessell.

I'd followed Poe to the Resistance ship Ackbar and his team, rigged up a connection for the datapad I'd 'stolen', and told my tale. Looking around the small group I recognised one or two of the old faces, including Connix, a blonde woman who had been around before I left with Hux. Her expression wasn't friendly.

"I managed to escape with this. It shows the plans for a First Order installation on the planet Kessell. The planet was formerly a spice mining operation but that closed down some years ago. This was what they are doing now."

I hoped the diagrammatics and pictures would tell a thousand words. It was pretty terrifying stuff - chemical stores, pictures of prisoners who had been test subjects. It turned my stomach and I been truly horrified when Hux had shown it to me and only slightly reassured when he told me that it has been started by a First Order scientist but then abandoned as it didn't work. Well, it worked, but just not as well as they had hoped; it couldn't wipe out an entire planet fast enough. So the project and planet had been abandoned for years. But that's not what I told the Resistance. I needed them on Kessell.

"It's chemical warfare. It's been developed over the last few years but is now ready to go into full supply and shipment in weeks." There was silence in the room.

"It doesn't need a death star, or a star killer to attack a planet, it can be released at atmosphere level by any adapted vessel. It enters the atmosphere and can kill any living being at low concentration levels."

"And does Kylo Ren, the new Supreme Leader, know about this or is this one of Hux's pet projects" Connix asked. It was an interesting question.

"It was Ren's idea to bring forward production. Look, from what I know its 30 days till the shipments start, but in 2 weeks there is a change of all personnel at the base. They use slave labour of course, and they have a regular schedule of 'renewal' of employees." And disposal of the old ones, according to what I had learnt from First Order files on similar planets.

"It will be the most vulnerable time to attack"

Will such a compelling case put forward, and I assume Poe vouching for me, he got permission from high command to go ahead with the raid.

As I keep saying, the plan had been simple. Get the Resistance to Kessell by a certain time, which would then alert the FIrst Order to move into position. Kylo Ren would be alerted to our position on the ground and swoop in for a ground attack as he'd been told that our compound was underground and therefore an air assault would be ineffective. The moment he landed, First Order fighters and canon fire from a star destroyer would take him out.

And us, the Resistance? Very kindly Poe hadn't taken my monomolecular blade which I had hidden in a boot. A gift from Hux, it was only sharp but also had a cloaked tracker in the hilt. So in theory the First Order could track our true position, actually a few hundred clicks away and not bomb us. Except some fucker did, taking out one of our shuttles leaving half of our squad on the ground, while the other half escaped and I got asked some very difficult questions.