Back with Rey in her cell, she was still shackled, mind still racing over what's happened between her and Kylo Ren. She is flooded with emotions, feeling her potential, her strength, that in this moment of being restrained, perhaps anything is possible. She turns to try and face the Stormtrooper Guard. Studies him for an intense beat. Then says:

"You will remove these restraints. And leave this cell with the door open."

The Stormtrooper Guard looks at her. "What did you just say?"

Rey's eyes stay trained on him. She shifts in her seat, her confidence wavering, but she repeats, with authority: "You will remove these restraints. And leave this cell, with the door open."

The Stormtrooper Guard, rifle aimed, started to move towards her. Rey's heart pounds; is she about to be killed, freed, or laughed at? The tension unbearable when the Guard says. "I'll tighten those restraints, scavenger scum!"

Rey stares intently at the trooper. Calms herself. And tries again. "You will remove these restraints. And leave this cell, with the door open."

Rey wondered what was going to happen when the Stormtrooper stood up straight, almost robotically. "I will remove these restraints. And leave this cell, with the door open."

He reaches down and unlatches the restraints. He then turns and starts to head out, her back to him as he exits. She is left in in shock she was actually able to accomplish what she did. Then tries, quickly to get a weapon to help her through this mess.

"And you will drop your weapon." Rey cried out.

"And I'll drop my weapon." The Trooper Guard drops his weapon without turning back

Rey HEARS the gun fall. She's incredulous. The guard has indeed left the cell, and the door was indeed open.

She was currently in absolute disbelief, but then starts to move quickly as to make an escape attempt. By the time that she was long gone, Kylo Ren enters the cell where he realized that the cell was empty and immediately understood what had occured.

"NO!" Kylo cried in anger as he rips out his saber and activates it.

He then begins to slash and destroy the containment chair that once held her. In an empty corridor toward the cell: only the horrible sounds of the lightsaber slashes could be heard. Not to mention Kyla's outrage and anger. A few pieces of red hot debris bounce into the corridor. Two Stormtroopers who were crossing at the far end of the hall stopped when they saw this display of pure fury.

They retreat, and fast to do so. They didn't wish to be included into the wrath.

XXXXXX

Back on Illenium, the Resistance was all huddled with the group around the map table, which displays a wireframe hologram of a rolling view of the surface for Starkiller Base. With Peter are Han, Leia, Poe, C-3PO, Statura, Ackbar, Brance, Snap, Teresa, and others. An urgent, messy strategy session -

"The scan data from Snap's reconnaissance flight confirms Peter's report from Takodana and their findings on the Destroyer a while back." Poe tells them, recalling when they first met.

"They've somehow created a hyper lightspeed weapon built within the planet itself." Snap informs them.

"A laser cannon?" Brance asks.

Snap shrugged. "We're not sure how to describe a weapon of this scale.

"It's another Death Star." Ematt commented.

"I wish that were the case, Major." Poe hits a control as a wireframe of the Death Star appears. "This was the Death Star."

Poe hits another control and everyone watches the Death Star shrinks down, and continues to shrink as the surface area of Starkiller Base is twenty times bigger than the Death Star once was. Compared to Starkiller, the Death Star is a minuscule satellite in comparison.

"This is Starkiller Base." Poe explains to everyone.

This is news to many here, and they're stunned. But Han didn't seem as threatened by the fact. "So it's big."

"How is it possible to power a weapon of this size?" Ackbar wonders.

Peter however learned a few things while he was rescuing Poe on the Destroyer. "It uses the power of the sun. As the weapon is charged, the sun is drained until it disappears."

An Officer runs up, and hands Leia a data card. "It's the First Order." She quickly eyed the data card and was trembling when she saw what it said. "They're charging the weapon again, now. Our system is the next target."

C-3PO started to lightly panic. "Oh my. Without the Republic fleet, we're doomed."

They all react to this horrible news. Some were starting to panic, and some were mumbling in worry. But not all of them were ready to give up on Hope yet.

"Okay, how do we blow it up?" Han asks as all eyes turned to him. "There's always a way to do that."

But no one has anything. Leia watches the silence, frustrated. Finally, rallying them: "Han's right."

Han is surprised to see she actually admitted it.

Statura at first was hesitant but decided he needed to give it some thought. "In order for that amount of power to be contained, that base would need some kind of thermal oscillator..."

Peter thought about it and recalled the schematics he eyed as a kid. "There is one." All eyes turned on Peter as he moves around the hologram to a location on the Starkiller Base. He pointed and the map zoomed in on a hexagon structure. "Precinct 47. Here."

Statura has them a big hypothetical idea. "If we can destroy that oscillator, it might destabilize the core and cripple the weapon."

"... Maybe the planet," Emmat added

Poe then tries to bolster spirits, looking at the Oscillator. "We'll go in there and we'll hit that oscillator with everything we got."

"They have defensive shields that our ships cannot penetrate." Ackbar warns them.

"We disable the shields," Han told them a plan and looked to Peter. "Kid, you worked there, what have you got?"

Peter took a moment and figured out a way to benefit everyone and nodded. "I might be able to do it."

Han smiled and looked at Leia. "I like this guy."

"I might have a way to disable the shields." Peter was happy to tell them. "But I have to be there, on the planet."

Han nodded. "We'll get you there."

"Han, how?" Leia was a little worried for the two of these hotheads to team up.

"If I told you, you wouldn't like it." Han mumbled to himself mostly.

"Wow, sounds like Peter." Poe had to mumble to Teresa.

"Kinda." Teresa had to agree.

"So we disable the shields, take out the oscillator and we blow up their big gun." Peter was happy to see that they've got a plan. "All right. Let's go!"

And everyone splits.

XXXXXXXX

The Resistance Fleet begins to prepare for its newest and most important. Pilots inspect crafts, including Snap, Nien Nunb, and Poe at his black-marked X-wing. Mechanics were trying to quickly make last minute adjustments as Crews fuel the jets. Ground controllers move ships into takeoff formation. Pilots prep their ships, including BB-8, who is lifted up into Poe's black X-wing.

Peter approaches Poe who was now wearing his jacket and Peter was getting back in his Spider gear with his hood raised. Fixing his web-shooters in his wrists, he was ready to get into the action, the Saber still attached to his belt. With his L8-SR needing repairs, he couldn't bring it along.

Poe slaps Peter's shoulder as he heads off, wishing him good luck. Chewie and Peter follow Han's orders as they prepare the Falcon for one more daring run, maybe its last:

"Chewie, check that donal capitator." Han tells his friend, who nods and walks off to do so. "Come on. Let's go." He then noticed Peter handling the explosives. "Kid, be careful with those - they're explosives."

Peter looked down at the devices he's holding and scoff. "Now he tells me?"

Teresa walked up and sat down to help him pack up. "You sure you don't want me to go?"

"No, I have a feeling that they're gonna need your help down here rather than me up there." Peter tells her, knowing that this was going to be a very difficult mission for them. "You know, if we pull this off..."

"They're gonna follow up with sending every ship that they have in the vicinity at us." Teresa already had that thought in her mind. "Not to worry, we're already preparing the evacuation plans."

Leia took a second as she approached the group. "No matter how much we fought, I'vealways hated watching you leave."

Han looks over towards Leia and smiles. "That's why I did it. So you'd miss me."

She laughs, moves up close to him. "I did miss you."

He looks at her, says sweetly, out of the blue: "It wasn't all bad, was it? Huh? Some of it was...good."

Leia smiled at him. "...Pretty good."

Han chuckled. "Some things never change."

"True." Leia smiles. "You still drive me crazy."

Han places his hands on her shoulders. It could be thirty years ago. They both know there's a good chance he won't make it back. They pull each other tight, holding for dear life.

"If you see our son again, bring him home.." Leia asked of him.

Han didn't respond and only quietly nodded as he lets her go and heads towards the ship. Peter quickly grabbed his bag and was getting prepared to get inside the ship when Teresa stopped him.

He wondered what was wrong when she held her pointer finger up again. "For luck." She explains why she was back to doing it. "To infinity..."

Peter chuckled and was happy they were doing their little bit again. He had to admit that he missed it. "And beyond."

They then linked fingers and separated, Peter making his way inside as Han and Chewie were both confused with what just occurred. They looked over to Teresa as she walked away as if nothing happened and knew they weren't getting any answers. Then they looked to Leia, and they noticed she just shrugged and she seemed to not understand it either and watched her leave.

Not following what just occurred, they just walked onto the ship and got ready for their mission to the Starkiller Base.

XXXXXXXX

Back in the base, there were men looking around frantically for the escaped prisoner. Rey has been able to avoid capture thanks to the terribly planned-out construction of the place.

"Sir, sensors triggered in hangar 718. We're searching the area." a stormtrooper reports to Kylo Ren.

"She's just beginning to test her powers." Kylo knew that it was going to be harder the longer they couldn't find her. "The longer it takes to find her, the more dangerous she becomes."

With Rey, she peers nervously around a corner. When she saw that there were no troops coming, she runs down a long, glossy hall, taking cover in an alcove, holding onto the trooper guard's rifle tight. She managed to sneak off where she saw a bunch of ships on a lower level, but there was no way she was going to go there unnoticed. Seeing no other way out, she just needed to stay out of the way to let the heat cool down.

Sneaking downward, Rey managed to make her way downward using her scavenger skills to hold onto the structure. Finding a compartment of sorts she could use as a hiding point, she uses it and sneaks in before closing it. She just now had to wait and hope someone was bound to come to rescue her soon.

The Falcon screams as it was currently flying at lightspeed, Peter, with Han and Chewie in the cockpit. They were heading straight for the Starkiller Base, but Peter was now growing suspicious on what Han was planning on how to get in.

"How are we getting in?" Peter questions.

"Their shields have a fractional refresh rate. Keeps anything traveling slower than lightspeed from getting through." Han explains to him and thinks Peter can fill in the rest.

Peter is suddenly filled with dread. "We are gonna make our landing approach at lightspeed?!"

Chewie, thinking it's crazy too, says: hell yes we are!

"Alright, chewie, get ready," Han tells him

Chewie groans, saying that he was ready. Han studies the panel indicators.

"And... now!"

Chewie and Han hit switches - the Falcon's environment shifts instantly from lightspeed to planet atmosphere. It's suddenly flying 100 feet above the snowy, rocky ground, headed for a thick forest!

Chewie growled out in anger.

"I am pulling up!" Han cried in anger.

But the Falcon has no time, it plows through the trees! It then rises as alarms blare as the ship slams through branches, and shoots toward the sky! Han does his best to steer and Chewie groans.

In the madness, Han yells, "I get any higher, they'll see us!"

And the ship dives again, back into the trees! A quiet clearing on the forest treeline. Suddenly the millennium falcon hurtles out of the forest! From an eruption of branches and pine, the ship dives - slams into the snow! It digs through a thousand yards of white until it finally comes to a canted stop, half buried in the snow!

XXXXXX

"Sir, she was not found in hangar 718 But all troops are on alert." An officer reported to Kylo

"Put every hangar on lockdown." Kylo demanded everyone, wanting to make sure Rey can't escape their base. "She's going to try to steal a ship to-"

Suddenly, Kylo senses something. Something familiar.

"Han solo..."