Star Wars: Recruits from Redemption

Chapter 1: The Wrongdoing

TWO YEARS LATER

The Earthlike planet of Darothar was peaceful. In the villages, there were children playing outside with their droids, pets, and toys. Their parents happily watched them play, there were never signs of the evil Galactic Empire on the planet during the times of the Galactic Civil War. And now there isn't any signs of the First Order on the surface of the planet.

But in over the planet, in space, a First Order Star Destroyer sent out four Stormtrooper transports, with all stormtroopers ready for battle, except for one of them on one of the transports, he was hyperventilating and sweating under his mask.

That stormtrooper's name was ARN-5506.

"Are you okay Arn?" One of the other stormtroopers said.

"Y-Yeah, I-It's just where I finished my training and that this is my first battle. Th-That's all..." ARN-5506 said.

Arn was ARN-5506's nickname. Most if not all Stormtroopers had a short and simple nickname.

"I was just making sure if you were okay. Sorry to bother you." The stormtrooper said.

"It's fine..." Arn said nervously.

On the planet's surface, children stopped playing as they looked in the sky and saw the Stormtrooper transports arriving on the surface. They were too young to understand what was going on, But their parents went inside of their small, wooden homes and grabbed their blasters as they yelled for their children to come inside.

The stormtroopers ran out of their transports as soon as they landed and they shot and killed any villagers they could find, They didn't just kill the men, but the women, and the children too. The flametroopers set those small, wooden homes that belonged to innocent villagers on fire as other surviving villagers ran for their lives.

However, ARN-5506 realized what he was doing and thought to himself. "Maybe the First Order is as bad is the Republic says it is..." he quietly said to himself. Arn stopped what he was doing and sat down on the ground. He kept thinking if he was on the wrong side the whole time.

"What the h*ll are ya doin'?! Don't ya see that Kylo Ren's comin'?!" a Stormtrooper yelled, Arn knew the Stormtrooper was yelling at him to get back to his duty. Because if Kylo saw him resting, that small decision to rest would result in a deadly punishment. So Arn stood up and looked at the horizon, He saw that Kylo Ren's shuttle was arriving nearby. Kylo Ren then came out of the ship, he had a fully black robe on, and an eerie helmet. The boy known as Ben Solo, was officially dead at this point, consumed by Kylo Ren, dark warrior.

A stormtrooper ran up to him and Kylo asked him, "Any survivors?"

"Yes sir, there was some." The stormtrooper said. He then did a hand gesture to signal the other stormtroopers to bring the survivors in front of the ship.

"What should we do with them?" the Stormtrooper asked.

Kylo looked at the stormtrooper, Then at Arn (who was standing there in the distance), then at the survivors, who the other stormtroopers had blasters to their backs.

"Kill them all on my command!" Kylo said.

The stormtroopers raised their guns toward the villagers' backs as Kylo started counting down.

"5... 4... 3... 2... 1..."

All of the stormtroopers, including Arn, started shooting at the villagers'. In the middle of shooting, Arn realized once again that this wasn't peace like the First Order claims it is, This is genocide. They were killing men, women, and children, who were all innocent. So, Arn stopped shooting. But not before Kylo looked at him, angrily.

Once all the survivors were dead and the entire village was burning, Kylo yelled "All troopers! Back to your transports!"

All of the stormtroopers went back to their transports. They flew into the Star Destroyer that was orbiting the planet in space. When the transport let all the Stormtroopers out, Arn heard Kylo call him by his number.

"ARN-5506!" Kylo said, with a concerned tone in his voice.

"Y-yes?" Arn said, with a scared tone in his voice.

"Why didn't you follow orders and kill those villagers?" Kylo said.

"Well, I-It's hard to explain..." Arn said nervously.

Kylo ignited his red crossguard lightsaber and pointed it to Arn's neck.

"Follow orders next time, or that next time will be your last time! Understand?!" Kylo yelled.

"Y-yes sir.." Arn said, he sounded like he was about to cry. But real soldiers never cry, so he didn't. Kylo deactivated his lightsaber and walked away. Arn also walked away in an opposite direction, heading towards his dormitory. Kylo looked back at Arn to make sure he wasn't up to anything suspicious.

Once Arn went inside of his small dormitory, he removed his helmet, revealing the face of a teenaged boy, he had brownish-black hair and brown eyes. Arn put his helmet on a desk and then he sat on his bed, contemplating if he should defect from the First Order and search the galaxy for his long-lost family.