Star Wars Episode X: The Shroud of The Dark Side

Chapter 20:Finn

Finn was pacing in the Jedi temple. There were two attacks going on right now between two different systems and Finn was trying to uphold Rey's values of not including the Jedi in any fights. The only problem was that now the Black Sun was openly joining the fight against the Republic, and all of the leads Finn had on possibly finding Darth Caedus involved the Black Sun in some way. Finn thought for a second. He knew that something needed to be done. If he just went to help Poe against the Yuuzhan Vong was it really the Jedi helping or him helping? Everyone knew Finn and knew that he wasn't really in charge of the Jedi. Sighing, he stood up and picked his new lightsaber off of the desk. He rolled it around in his hand, still confused about where it came from. He learned it had the nickname of the Darksaber and that long ago a member of the Madalorian group joined the Jedi and used this as his lightsaber, but he wasn't sure how the Black Sun got it or why they even wanted it. It was hard for a non force user to use a lightsaber because of the force connection with the kyber crystal. But Finn couldn't even find where the crystal was located on the saber. Finn walked through the halls of the temple urgently trying to figure out the best plan of action. He had a couple conversations with other Jedi, but they never lasted more than a minute. Finn decided that he had to go help Poe. He couldn't sit there and do nothing, and his friend needed help. In order to make sure that the galaxy wouldn't assume that the new Jedi order had joined in the fight, he would go by himself. Running to his fighter, he jumped in and called Poe.

"Poe! Where are you, I'm coming to help!"

"Mygeeto! The Yuuzhan Vong are attacking the natives here, if you're coming to help you need to leave now! Shit, HIT THE DECK!!" Poe's transmission cut out.

Finn sped off as fast as he could to Mygeeto and could even see the battle from space when he made it to the planet. He landed next to the Republic ships and jumped out igniting the darksaber. He ran and cut down a Yuuzhan Vong warrior as he looked for Poe. Slicing through as many of the alien warriors as he could he finally got a good look at them. They were ugly, and shared the same white skin that Tsavong Lah had, but they were much shorter. They could do with a bath or something soon too. The stench that came off of them was something like a weapon itself.

Jumping through the battle, he saw why the Republic needed help. The Yuuzhan Vong were strong and ruthless. They were not above using not only their fists, feet and weapons, but their teeth too. Finn watched horrified as a Republic trooper was grabbed by the warrior and had his throat torn out before being tossed aside. He couldn't find Poe either and that was starting to worry him. Not that Poe couldn't handle the Yuuzhan Vong, but that he would do something stupid trying to save someone else and would get hurt or die. He ran through the streets doing what he could to fight off the warriors and save as many troopers as he could. Finally once he got into a building, he saw Poe and 3 Republic troopers fighting off 5 Yuuzhan Vong warriors. Finn was too far away to make it in time to save one of the troops so he tried to pull the Yuuzhan Vong warrior away from him. But nothing happened. The warrior did not move. When Finn reached out with the force to try and reach the Yuuzhan Vong, he couldn't. The creature was outside of the force. Finn ran toward the trooper as fast as he could to try and make it but he couldn't. The Yuuzhan Vong swung his hug club and took the poor troopers head clean off. Finn made it and drove his lightsaber through the Yuuzhan Vong's back. With the Yuuzhan Vong warriors surprised at Finn coming out of nowhere, Poe and the last 2 troopers charged and helped Finn take down the last 4 warriors left. The troopers ran out of the building and toward the fight. Poe looked at Finn with relief and nodded.

"Nice new saber. Is the color because. You know." He pointed at Finn and the darksaber.

"What do you.. Oh come on man, really?" Finn looked at Poe and shook his head.

Poe laughed and wiped blood off of his head. "Good to see you buddy. Let's kick their ass."

They charged out of the building and shot and slashed their way through the aliens.

"How do we get them to leave? Where's their leader??" Finn yelled over the battle.

"No idea! I don't know if they have a leader, I think that they just fight until they're all dead!" Poe yelled back at him.

"Great. Fun, that'll go well!" Finn barely finished the sentence before he was grabbed by the neck and dragged to the ground. He rolled over on the ground right before a sword stabbed the ground right next to his head. Spinning back up he cut off the hand and then slashed the chest of the Yuuzhan Vong that had attacked him. He looked up to the sky and saw that an aerial battle had started. Finn and Poe looked at each other and Poe sprinted off to get in his X-wing where BB-8 was waiting. They took off into the sky and Finn lost them in the sky. Continuing to fight, Finn was getting really tired. The Yuuzhan Vong were strong and had a lot of endurance. This was a lot different than fighting humans. Finn got an idea. The Yuuzhan Vong had taken over a huge building on the other side of the city. Finn was thinking that there must be a generator in the building or on the outside of that building. If that could be destroyed they wouldn't have electricity to call in reinforcements or maybe it could even blow up and take out their warriors they brought. Sprinting through the fight he cut down the enemy but didn't stop running. This needed to be over. He ran across the damaged bridge trying to take cover as much as he could. It wasn't easy, there was some kind of explosive that they were throwing across the bridge, either trying to destroy it to stop the Republic from getting over it, or they were just trying to blow up the city. Finn used the force to push the grenade like objects back at them and eventually they stopped coming. He took the opportunity to run across the bridge and cut through more Yuuzhan Vong until he was at the building. Finn ran around the left side of the large building trying to find some kind of generator. It took a long time but eventually he found something that would work as one and gave off an electric hum. He hid behind a pillar and called Poe.

"Poe, there's the generator that I think is powering the building. If we take it out it might help cripple their forces. It's got a shield around it though, I can't reach it. Your X-wing might have enough power to break through the shield and destroy it." Finn whispered just in case someone was walking by.

"Got it. I'll make my way over, they just got a huge ship in orbit. I don't know what it is, but I can almost guarantee that it's not good." Poe's com shut off.

"Damn it..." Finn groaned and ran out to see the ship. A huge beam of light came off of it to the ground and then an actual laser came out and hit the ground. Finn was momentarily taken into the air and then slammed into the ground hard. After the wind was done being knocked out of him, he got up and then was immediately slammed down to the ground again. Getting back up Finn realized what was going on. The Yuuzhan Vong were trying to terraform the planet.