Accidental Video; Horrible Roommates Being Horrible

[darthvaderfanboy]

[The video turns on haphazardly, staring up as if someone had flung it across the room and accidentally turned it on. Which, incidentally, is exactly what happened. There's a red glare as Kylo's lightsaber comes into view. He slashes at someone just out of view, missing them, and instead taking out part of the couch.]

I've had it with you! I'll make you wish you'd died as a child!

[Then his toe hits the video, sending it spinning and landing in another spot.]

Oh like I'm going to be scared of a pathetic version of Darth Vader. You have no idea how many times I wanted to abandon you on Hoth.

[There is a loud clambering as Hux got out of the way and when the video settles he can be seen with his blaster in his hand, eyes shining with a mad fury.

He raises the blaster and fires a few shots aimed at Kylo, but a few shots hit the walls and destroy the couch.

Kylo blocks the blaster shots with an almost contemptuous ease, his lightsaber twirling in front of him in a back and forth pattern. He stops the last shot in midair, sending it sailing back towards Hux.]

Is that the best you can do? My mother is a better shot, you Tarkin-wannabe.

[Now he was just hitting below the belt.]

You did not-

[Hux barely manages to dodge the reflected blast, which hit the opposite wall, leaving a deep mark. He's back on his feet to fire a few more shots with a growl of fury. He doesn't care where they land, he just wants to make Kylo suffer.]

Oh, please, you just sit and talk to your grandfather's helmet. 'I will finish what you started' - that's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. You're just an embarrassment.

[Kylo goes very still for a moment, the video's skewed perspective making him look about seven feet tall. Everything nearby him begins to rattle with the power of the Force. Then, with a roar of fury, they all lift up, and began hurling themselves at Hux.]

I have more power than you could ever dream of! You think firing off your little superweapon gives you power? You're nothing. Just a bastard who got lucky.

[Hux's expression turns ugly, he's spent his entire life being called a bastard no matter how much he tried to put his past behind him.]

My little superweapon? The superweapon I could use to command the power of the stars when I destroyed the entire Hosnian System? I destroyed the Republic, their Senate, and their entire fleet in a moment while you sulked like a litt-

[He paused suddenly as he noticed the device, walking towards it.] You idiot, you left your phone on.

[Kylo looks over his shoulder at the phone. Great. They'd just broadcast that entire argument to the network. Now everyone knows about the Hosnian System. With a frustrated growl, he picks up a nearby lamp, and throws at Hux's head, not caring if it actually connects or not.]

This is your fault, you smug moron.

[Their physical altercation is done. The bickering is far from over.]

Comments

[therewillbeorder]

I'm not surprised.

[He wasn't ashamed of it. If it meant that he got what he needed to done then it was worth any sacrifice.]

Really? I can't picture what you would do to relax. Sit on a beach somewhere?

[darthvaderfanboy]

[Kylo tilts his head, a tic that he tends to do when he's amused.]

Try going to a cantina and taking on the entire bar.

[What? Fighting is his preferred form of meditation.]

[therewillbeorder]

Sounds relaxing.

[He's not surprised in the least.]

I suppose being here is a bit of a forced vacation.

[darthvaderfanboy]

Then learn to relax a little. You act as if you're still in charge of a ship with hundreds of people on it.

[therewillbeorder]

That's easy for you to say, I've lived my life like that. It's not so easily forgotten.

[Honestly, he doesn't even know how to relax.]

[darthvaderfanboy]

You've modified your behavior before. You can learn to do it again.

[Calm himself, lower his blood pressure, attempt to get rid of that ulcer he's no doubt named after Kylo.]

[therewillbeorder]

It took me learns of intense training to do so, when I was training to be an Imperial officer.

[The medic droid hadn't been amused when he had decided to call the ulcer 'Ren' but it was so fitting. At least he has been fitting better in his time here but it's slow steps.]

[darthvaderfanboy]

Consider it a new form of training if that's what it takes. Find something else to do besides picking fights with me. You're bored right now.

[therewillbeorder]

So are you, Ren.

[He's not going to deny being bored, though, he didn't know how to sit still and be unproductive. Fighting with Kylo at least gave him an outlet to vent some of his anger, grief, and frustration.]

You pick fights with me constantly.

[darthvaderfanboy]

At least I have new training to keep me occupied.

[If he actually focused on that instead of picking fights with Hux constantly, he might actually make some progress too.]

All you seem to be doing is antagonizing the people from our galaxy until they get the urge to punch you in the face.

[therewillbeorder]

Maketh Tua and the other Force user are traitors to the Empire. [His voice become cold and hard, there were some lines that weren't crossed and that was one of them.]

I do not tolerate treason.

[darthvaderfanboy]

The Empire and First Order aren't here, Hux. Do what you will, but they both have their uses.

[Power was what he sought and power was what they were both granting him.]

[therewillbeorder]

The Empire and First Order don't just cease to exist because the army and fleet aren't here. It's who I am and I can't simply set it aside.

[Hux's tone is hard, his expression serious. His devotion to the Empire and First Order had been instilled into him since practically the day he was born.]

I can agree they have their uses but not as trusted allies.

[darthvaderfanboy]

[He won't argue that. Hux is a soldier right down to the bone and nothing is going to change that.]

I agree Maketh is not to be trusted, but Fulcrum is teaching me in the ways of the Force.

[He gets that fanatical look in his eyes under the mask. She was showing him power than he'd never thought possible.]

[therewillbeorder]

She's a former Jedi and I'll let you ask your grandfather about what the Jedi did to the galaxy when they decided to seize power. There was a good reason the Emperor issued Order 66.

[Hux's knowledge of the Jedi was limited to what his father had told him about the Clone Wars, the holos he had seen, and what he had read in the Imperial records. None of it was very flattering.]

[darthvaderfanboy]

In case you forgot, I'm a former Jedi pupil.

[Somehow, even through the vocoder, his voice manages to sound frosty.]

Hux, I know you'd like to think you know everything about everything, but what you know about the Force could be summed up in a thimble. Don't pretend to understand how Force users work.

[therewillbeorder]

Jedi pupil, not actual Old Republic Jedi. And as I said, ask your grandfather, he would know more.

[Hux didn't flinch nor look away.]

I don't pretend to understand everything about the Force, just as everything you know about military operations wouldn't even fill a page of a book.

[darthvaderfanboy]

I intend to.

[That was one thing Kylo would reluctantly give credit to Hux for. He never was intimidated.]

Good, now that we have that settled, when I say that she is someone to be relied upon, trust me.

[therewillbeorder]

[He was quiet for a long moment as he looked at Ren before nodding. While Kylo's mistakes had cost him Starkiller, Hux couldn't doubt his loyalty. Kylo had also promised to protect him so he would have to trust in that.]

Very well.