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She had been practicing her poker face for months, making sure that nobody could see that she was going to take this base down from the inside out and make sure that the Resistance had another win under their belt. As much as she wished she could simply go and attack the base with the legion of X-wings she did not want to get anyone injured so General Organa let her go undercover as a…a radar technician.
A radar technician? Was she in padawan academy all over again? This had to be the easiest job in all of the base! Rey was going to kill this! This base was brand new but she had to hide herself so the Resistance made her wear two hair buns instead of three but it would keep her hair up as she worked. Some of the other technicians had also warmed up to her! She was a self-proclaimed master in all of these technical stuff but beside that she was a quick learner which meant she was taking in all that she could see and reporting it back to the Resistance.
Best part about this job? No Kylo Ren! He must have been at the beck and call of that Supreme Leader Snoke guy so that was one last thing she had to worry about. The rest of the crew was simply working under orders and she could understand that they all had families and friends they cared about.
The girl was sitting in the lunch table with Zack and Tim, a Lieutenant Colonel and a Storm-Trooper from the 501st legion who had quickly become her friends. She would be going to fix the calibrator after this and finally be able to go to her room to report her progress but the doors to the mess hall opened as a tall man with blonde hair and the dorkiest pair of glasses stepped in and looked around.
“Hi…I’m Matt.” the room was silent as he kept trying to make eye contact, “I’m a radar technician.”
“Oh hey!” Rey shot her hand up as Tim turned to look at her, “Same here! Want to come sit with us!” she said as she waved to him. Matt’s eyes widened as he grabbed his food and shuffled over to Rey and her friends taking a seat as she welcomed him with a smile.
“My name is Kira.” she used her alias as she then presented her other two friends, “And this is Zach and Tim!” they both waved as Rey turned to him, not noticing Matt’s surprised gaze at her casual talk. The conversation went on and finally Matt spoke up.
“You guys like working here?”
Zack shrugged as Rey took another bite of her food, this needed a little bit of flavour.
“You know…work is work.”
The girl nodded at that before the conversation steered to their ‘boss’ Kylo Ren. She frowned at her vegetables at his name as Matt kept talking about him.
“Do you guys believe him when he says he is going to finish what Darth Vader started?”
“What exactly has he started?” She nodded. He was such an asshole…why would Matt even talk about him? She had talked to Master Luke and he said that his father had rejected the Light side at the end and had turned away from his evil deeds. So Kylo Ren was finishing nothing. He was merely starting something that should have been left alone.
“Ya know, I will say this for Kylo…”
Rey and Tim turned to look at the Lieutenant Colonel, what the hell was he talking about?
“I think he gets a bad rap. He is trying to accomplish something that has never been done in the history of the galaxy! Rule everything? That’s impressive I admire the guy.” he finished and went straight back his meat, Matt merely nodding and repeating the word ‘exactly’ many times. Rey was about to open her mouth and tell them what she really thought about Kylo Ren and his stupid plan but she saw the time.
“Damn.” she stuffed the rest of the food in her mouth, swallowed, and stood up, looking toward the guys as she waved, “I’ll see you guys later! If the calibrator is not fixed then this whole place might blow up and then what can we do!” she says with a laugh but that is exactly what she was going to do. Might as well make her self familiar with it. She touched Matt’s shoulder as he turns around.
“I’ll see you around! Maybe we will get to work on something together, who knows!”
She runs off, missing the small blush on Matt’s cheek as he touches his shoulder.
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“Goodness Kira, you really do learn fast!”
The girl smiled as she kept working, her hands tugging and stringing every wire and piece of machinery that was necessary to get the job done. The overseer then turned to Matt, trying her best to tell him what needed to be done but apparently Matt had not seen a calcinator in his life. She tried to stay quiet as the overseer raised her voice and Matt protested about what this job was doing to his stress levels when finally Rey stepped in and knelt beside him.
“Here I’ll show him what to do. Better teach him how to fish instead of catching the fish yourself huh?”
With a smile, the overseer patted the girl’s head as she nodded, “You are such an awesome girl Kira. I’ll save a muffin for you at the mess hall!” she said as she walked away from the scene. She turned to Matt as she took his hand and led it to the calcinator. It was a small object that needed to be found under some wires but once you knew where it was you would never forget.
“I don’t blame you. For some people it is really hard to find that thing but once you know were it is the rest of the job is easy.” she smiles as he says a small ‘Thank you’ and keeps on working, muttering about how this was much harder than he initially thought. The girl patted his back as she stood up, they had muffins and she was hungry all over again.
“You will get it! Just keep on at it! If you want I can save you half of my muffin since I am sure they will all be gone by the time I get there.” she gets a nod from him and starts walking towards the mess hall.
Matt turns back to his job his hands busying themselves as he tried to hide the smile that was blossoming on his face.
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“You are…really nice.”
Rey had an apple in her mouth as she turned to Matt, taking a bite and chewing as he kept on talking. Matt seemed like an outcast among the rest of them. She had integrated herself pretty well but that was because some of these people didn’t see a smile every day so she was happy to give it to them. Matt on the other hand was always frowning and looking around like he was trying to hide something.
Not only that she had heard from Tim that apparently he threw him into the soda machine? She went back to look at the damage but it had already been fixed causing Tim groan and Zack to simply shrug. Maybe it was broken from the inside? She had tried to get a drink yesterday and it didn’t work so maybe that was it.
“I also ran into Kylo Ren today.”
“Ugh. I’m sorry about that.” she said as she took another bite of her apple.
“No he was…he was cool. He wasn’t pretending to be cool either. He was really cool. Like Hoth.” he said as he sat next to her and tapped his fingers on the table. “Also he wanted me to tell you that he has seen the work you have been doing and he is impressed.”
She almost choked on her apple, grabbing a drink and chugging it as she looked at Matt.
Was he serious? He was HERE? She had shielded herself from him using the force and she could not feel him at all. Not only that she thought that the people of higher power were on a completely different level and that he wouldn’t come down to even LOOK at this place. Her pulse started racing but her training was the only thing that made her simply smile and take another bite of her almost finished apple. “Well who cares. He hardly comes down here so how could he even know I am doing a good job?”
“H-He has been watching you, I mean, the workers who are actually working.” Matt scratches the back of his neck, “I told him I was a radar technician and he said he had heard about a radar technician who was a fast learner and so I told him about you.”
Dammit Matt! Rey liked him but he was a blabbermouth! At least she had her alias to go by.
“You didn’t have to do that! I get embarrassed when people talk about me too much.” she says as she puts her apple core in her tray. She feels a hand on her shoulder as Matt looks at her, was he smiling? She kept still as he looked at her.
“He said he is impressed and that he wants to talk to you about a promotion. You might even get to work near him. He says he needs someone to check out the panels in his room and he wanted you.” he nods at her, “That’s pretty cool…right?”
The mission was compromised she had to leave.
“Yeah uhm…tell him that I will be right there tomorrow afternoon! I have to do morning check ups so…” she dumps her tray as she touches Matt’s arm. She was a bit sad she would not be able to blow up this new base but she had made a new friend. In all honesty he could have been so much better if he didn’t talk about Kylo Ren so much.
“Hey Matt.” she says as she stands on the exit doors, looking back at him, “Do you…” she clenched her fists and shook her head. It was too risky. To invite Matt to join her in the Resistance? He was too much of a fanboy that he probably would lose all that boyish charm and tell on her. No…he would just have to be a fleeting memory.
“Nevermind. I’ll see you tomorrow!”
She left, not noticing the grin Matt had on his face as he hissed a ‘yes!’ to himself and punched the air. If he was lucky enough then Kira would not hate him too much when he revealed who he was tomorrow. He wouldn’t admit it but Hux’s idea was turning out to be a pretty good experience.
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“Yeah…he was cute too.A bit of an awkward guy but he was super nice when we worked together. Couldn’t find his way out of a radar panel even if he wanted to.”
Several beeps and boots followed as Rey fixed her hair in the X-wing she had borrowed from the Resistance and was leaving the base at light-speed, lucky that she had rigged the radars to not notice any incoming our outgoing objects that were passing through the atmosphere.
“I know BB-8 but I couldn’t just ASK him to leave with us! It seemed to risky! Hopefully if we make another attack I will have a chance to show him who I truly am. Maybe he will get over that punk ass bitch Kylo Ren and decide to join the true heroes.”
She stretches and lets out a satisfied sigh. Stars…she was really starting to get into this whole Jedi/Resistance fighter thing.
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“WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING?”
“General Hux Master Ren has been destroying everything in sight we can’t stop him! He killed Lieutenant Colonel Zack and now has started to slash at the radar panels!”
He pressed a finger to his temple as he looked up at the ceiling. This had been a bad idea. A horrible idea. Getting Kylo to integrate with the workers? He was never watching late night holo-vids ever again.
“Also sir! He keeps yelling for someone named Kira! Do we have a Kira in the—OH MY FORCE.”
Hux heard the voice distort and cut off as he went back to his duties. Phasma could deal with this.