Star Wars: A dyad in the Force 「A Reylo FanFiction」

The Analyzer, 36 ABY

General Rowan Annix had taken charge of the Analyzer, which was not only the last remaining First Order base; it was the last Star Destroyer.

General Annix stood on the Analyzer's bridge, gazing out into deep space and contemplating his recent encounter with Kylo Ren. It seemed that Ren would never give him the information he wanted, even if his men tortured him. The former Supreme Leader had disappeared for a full planetary cycle, and when he finally did appear, he was a Resistance spy.

What the hell was happening to the Galaxy? General Annix wondered. He was bewildered by Kylo Ren's actions. If that hadn't been enough, Ren wouldn't give him answers. Kylo Ren was no longer the same individual that he had been. He hadn't been angry, and he hadn't attacked Annix. That roused more questions that would be answered when he...they would never be answered if Ren continued behaving the way he was.

The Analyzer's bridge — similar to the Finalizer's — was a model of efficiency, with controls and monitors briskly exchanging information from the ships targeting computers and sensor suits. Annix stood irritatedly as the other officers around him tried to figure out what information had been leaked to the Resistance.

Truth be told, the First Order had been destroyed. In the face of this, Annix promised himself that was merely an unfortunate setback — a major military defeat — but they still could strike back. Those failures made by himself and his superiors during the past few years had taught him caution. He would approach this next attack without making the mistakes of the past.

Annix believed that the First Order could take down the Resistance. That was it right there, General Annix thought, the First Order would triumph, and its power would rise again. The First Order was the fulfillment of what the Empire had struggled to become. It had distilled and perfected its mother's strengths while eliminating its weaknesses. Though perhaps if Annix were honest with himself, he would have admitted that not every weakness had been purged.

"General!" called a monitor from the bridge pit, "You won't believe it. We have a single Resistance X-wing fighter approaching us. It's moving to attack us."

Poe's X-wing's call sign was a Black One befitting its black fuselage and eye-catching orange flares. Those colors were more muted than Poe would have liked. He had opted for the experiment equipment and stuck with that choice even after Rose reminded him that it was somewhere between possible and likely that it would kill him the time it was engaged.

When it came to piloting, Poe usually had fun. He was one of the best pilots in the Resistance, and the main reason was that he loved flying. Not that Poe was having fun at the moment — in fact, hurtling alone through space towards the large First Order capital ship struck him as an excessively bad plan, but one he could not avoid. He had done this once before with the Finalizer, and he was doing it again.

Judging from the mournful beeping of BB-8 in the droid socket behind the X-wing's cockpit, his friend was anxious as well. "Happy beeps here, buddy!" Poe encouraged, "Come on, we've pulled crazier stunts than this." Though BB-8 didn't dignify that with a response, he repeated a few more times, "Happy Beeps!"

"What a single fighter?" Annix queried, disbelievingly peering into deep space. "What is going on with everyone these days?"

Annix looked from one side to the other, trying to spot the fighter. "Why aren't you shooting him?" But before the gunners could be notified to carry out his order, a ship-to-ship transmission crackled over the Analyzer's audio pickups.

"Attention, this is General Poe Dameron of the Republic fleet," he said, "I have an urgent message for General Anus."

Annix felt all eyes turning his way, and a blush threatened to bloom over his cheeks. Of course, he knew who Poe Dameron was. His name was well known to him. Dameron had fired the shot that had destroyed Starkiller Base, the Finalizer, and many of the Final Order's Destroyers. Annix had sworn that he would catch the damn pilot and kill him to keep him from destroying another First Order ship.