"Fight us, you ugly bastard!" Lando shouts as he aims a blaster at the creature Ben worshipped as the Supreme Leader, as his Supreme Leader, for years.
Not anymore. Snoke writhes on the ground, kicking off a rock as large as his head and sending it flying at Lando, who tries in vain to dodge it. It strikes Lando in the shoulder, sending him flying against the side of the Millennium Falcon.
Chewie howls and Snoke barely escapes a bowcaster blow. Someone else screams—Poe—as Snoke lifts the pilot in the air, throwing him into the side of a cliff. They're in a sort of valley on Ahch-To, a patch of rolling grass set between a plateau on which the Millennium Falcon rests, a cliff towering opposite the plateau, and a rolling hill scattered with boulders.
"Poe!" Finn shrieks, racing to the fallen pilot. "Come on, Poe, wake up!"
"Ah," Snoke chortles, the sound so brutal it's all Ben can do not to double over. "The stormtrooper. FN-2187."
"Don't call him that!" shouts Rey, and Ben's heart sinks. Mother grabs Rey, positioning herself in front of her.
Snoke smirks at her as Ben sees Luke wriggling his way out from debris, on the top of a steep slope above them, Grandfather crouched over his son. Obi-Wan straightens and looks at Rey with shock. A little green creature—Yoda—looks at Snoke with a pity Ben cannot relate to.
"Rey Kenobi. Come with me now, and I won't touch your friends."
Ben's heart drops further, and Snoke smirks. He knows perfectly well that's the line Ben used on Rey back on Stewjon. And everyone knows it's a lie, but only Rey and Ben know why Snoke says it.
"She's not going anywhere," Finn snarls, crouched over Poe's unconscious form and looking at Snoke with utter revulsion.
"Go join your friend," Snoke says dismissively, tossing another stone, as large as Finn's torso, at him. Ben's hand flies up to stop it, but Finn beats him to it.
"Hiding behind your Force-sensitive friends, I see?" Snoke taunts.
"No," Finn breathes. "No. I have the Force."
The closest thing Ben's ever seen to shock crosses Snoke's face. "That's impossible."
"Apparently not," jeers Mother.
"No—I would have known!" Snoke screeches. He knocks Chewie to the ground, and fury lashes through Ben.
"How?" Ben demands. "Hux—"
"I hand-picked that one!" Snoke shouts before stepping back, breathing deeply. "Say goodbye to your father, FN-2187 Skywalker." He aims at Luke again.
"No!" Both Rey and Ben stop him from levitating Luke, who's struggling to stand on a clearly broken leg. The salty air slaps Ben's face, wet and sharp and stinging as his brain tries to process what Snoke just said.
"What did you say?" Finn demands.
"Your mother was his whore," Snoke sneers, jerking his head towards Luke. "Just like she's—" He nods to Rey. "His whore." He nods to Ben.
Together, Ben and Finn both aim at Snoke, who successfully deflects one of them—Ben doesn't know whom—and topples over as the other's blow hits him.
And then Ben looks to Finn in shock as Snoke's words sink in. Finn is my cousin? FN-2187? The stormtrooper? The man he'd screamed, so feral, at: "Traitor!"
"That's impossible!" Finn shouts.
"Search your feelings," mocks Snoke, smiling deviously at Luke and ignoring Finn. "You know it to be true. And now you're going to see your only child wiped out, Luke Skywalker, just like I killed his mother—"
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•LEGACY - A Reylo Story•
Fanfiction*WRITTEN PRE-TROS, POST TLJ* When a ship crashes near the Resistance base, Finn and Poe are shocked to discover Kylo Ren. What does he want? And where is Rey? And as for Kylo, he must decide how much he can trust them with what he knows about Snoke...
