Force connections

No strength left to fight

Wincing in pain I made it to the end of the now crumbling corridor.  There were only two ways out of here, the lift or a steep set of metal stairs. I took the stairs, presuming that the lifts would be out of action. I opened the door to the stairs and looked down them to the concrete floor below. Suddenly I felt a push on my back. I cried out in surprise, crashing down the stairs and landing in a bloody heap at the bottom.

I lifted my head, wincing at the pain that shot through it.  A damp, hot trickle ran down my forehead and I lifted my hand shakily, wiping at it. Blood, lots of it, probably coming from my earlier head wound.  A noise from the stairs and I sat up, too quickly, falling back on my elbows but I knew what I had seen.  Teekado coming down the stairs towards me, my saber in his hands. 

I tried to scramble to my feet but failed, a screaming pain in my side reminding me of my previous blaster wound.  Teekado laughed.  He had reached me now and stood towering over me.  "What a pathetic mess you look" he spat, his foot coming up and pressing down on my chest.  I groaned in pain at the pressure near the blaster site and smiling, he pressed down harder "Think you can just walk back in after all those years away and take away from me all that I've built?  Well you're wrong!" He screamed at me, his boot rising and then stamping down on my chest.  I cried out and tried to roll away but he held me there, twisting his boot cruelly, clearly enjoying seeing my pain. "No, I had the good sense to go to your General. I knew something had gone on for you to leave the First Order. He was more than happy to accept an offer to wipe you out. We came to Anoat looking for you but instead we found her, your little hoare", I spat at him then and he stamped down hard on me, laughing as he did it, "Oh dear, you don't like that do you Ren, me calling her a hoare?".  I glared at him.  It was all I could do, I knew that I was too badly injured to fight back.  He stepped back then, his boot lifting off me and ignited my saber.  I tried to stand but I could only make it onto my knees and I began to crawl away from him.  He followed beshind laughing and kicking at me.  A sharp pain in my back as he brought the cross hatch of my saber onto me, burning easily through my clothes and scorching my skin. I cried out, attempting to stand again but my legs wouldn't support me and I fell down into a heap, blood pooling around me. Teekado laughed, "So weak. The mighty Kylo Ren reduced to this. And now oh mighty warrior, you will die by your own saber, cowering on the ground".

I knew this was the end for me. Every part of my body screamed with pain. My ribs hurt when I breathed and blood was clouding my vision every time I blinked. I thought of her, beautiful and sweet. A girl who had fallen in love with a monster like me and had brought me back to being a man, a girl who had saved me using nothing but her love. I heard Teekado's words and in one last act of defiance I showed him no fear and with every last bit of my energy I rolled over to look at him. He was lifting my saber into the air, the crackling red blade lighting up his face. I held his stare, bracing myself for what was to come when suddenly a blue blade appeared above me, driven through him by an unseen hand. I watched Teekado's face change, saw his eyes open wide, his mouth fall open. As the blade was pulled out, back through his body I watched my saber un-ignite in his shaking hand and clatter to the ground near my head. His eyes swept down to look at the gaping hole in his abdomen and then he turned and that was when my hazy eyes cleared and I saw them. The knights of Ren were gathered behind Teekado and there, holding the stolen Jedi saber was Malbus.  Teekado stuttered something before falling to the ground next to me in a lifeless heap. Malbus stepped forwards, his eyes on mine, "Master Ren, looks like you could do with some help from your knights" he said, crouching down and clipping my saber to my belt.  I nodded my head as best I could, grateful for their loyalty.   Between them they lifted me out of the crumbling base and onto their waiting ship.