Chain Reaction

Chapter 1 - Pilot

Paige

The long hours she had spent waiting for a distress call from this Kylo Ren were spent torturing some uncooperative city officials they had picked up from a previous planet. Nearly six hours of making them feel endless pain and they still wouldn't comply. Paige had tried physically paining them, and then when that didn't work she started attacking them psychologically, bringing their most traumatic memories to life before their eyes. The officials were currently on the floor, weeping and balled up, soaked with their own tears and sweat, one was still standing up, banging on the walls of the cell they had been put in. Paige had been sent here to straighten them out as the General put it. That meant she was to drain them of everything they had until they were nothing but unfeeling hollow ghosts of the men they once were. She wondered if the General was like that.

She turned around as a stormtooper entered the room.

"Project 5163, General Hux needs you."

Paige immediately drops her hold on the four officials, but that did not stop their wailing and still they were sobbing. The stormtrooper turned to the mess and Paige sensed he felt a bit nervous, terrified even. Of her.

"We'll take care of them." The stormtrooper told her.

"I can knock them all out if you want." she suggested.

"That won't be necessary, miss."

Paige nodded then left the room.

She went towards the meeting room and entered to find General Hux standing  at the other end of the room, his hands clasped behind his back.

Hux

General Hux was barking orders to the people at the control room, they were having difficulty contacting Kylo Ren, what in the world was that bastard doing this time?

They weren't that far from Jakku, but they were having difficulties contacting him. There was only one probability. It was that Kylo Ren had manually shut off his communications. It was impossible for him to have troubles there. That is, unless, there was another Jedi there, which seemed unlikely. So, Hux's temple vein was throbbing with anger as he thought of the reprimanding he was definitely going to give the man when he returned.

"Where is he, Lieutenant?!" General Hux hissed, his fist clenching.

"Sir, we still haven't established a connection with Master Ren's vehicle yet." 

"Has he even landed yet?! Do we know that at least!?" 

"No, sir." 

The General was so close to having a fit. He was not about to send a squad there in search for that blasted man. But the again, Kylo Ren was having trouble and not telling them out of his petty ego, well he was not about to give him the pleasure of getting away with it.

"Can we contact the Captain?"

"Sir, Captain Phasma has landed her squad on Jakku, last we received from her was that she was going to be getting her orders there from under Kylo Ren."

"Send a squad to her location." The General ordered.

One of them was about to contact the stormtroopers when the General saw his datapad blow up with one message. He raised a gloved hand to the lieutenant, indicating to not yet announce the order, and read the message silently. It was from Kylo Ren. And he was returning. Only with a hostage and not the map.

The General breathed a sigh of frustration and relief at the same time.

"Never mind that. Prepare the bay, he's coming back." He said through gritted teeth.