Poe: The Master of Deception

Poe looked up at Fin crawling into the vent as the elevator moved down. The newbie is on his own now. The kid is competent enough to last longer than a 20 foot trip in a vent with a tied up prisoner. *And* the prisoner is basically a secretary for the empire with no evidence of anything special about her. Seriously, why did Leia single her out among the various generals, admirals, and just about anyone with more than five badges on his uniform.

The issue now is convincing whatever security was waiting for Poe not to shoot him on the spot. The solution is simple: put the helmet back on, take your blaster, point it at your chest plate, and prepare yourself for full body pain. On it's lowest setting, a blaster isn't meant to kill and the stormtrooper armor is meant to spread out a hit all over the body instead of just the impact site. Sure it looks suspicious for a blaster to hit at less than point blank, but this is an elevator. There's barely any room to begin with.

Poe took his blaster and looked at Fin's discarded helmet.

"Good luck, kid."

The trigger clicked and the resulting blast seared the polished white armor and the shock sent Poe to the floor.

He woke up without his helmet on with a medic taking some vitals and Captain Phasma kneeling over him and gazing at his look of shock through her lifeless helmet visor.

"Trooper. What happened?" She asked.

"Two troopers came in and one of them shot me. I don't know what they wanted. They were with an officer! What happened to her?"

"Calm down. We have a security team sweeping the area. They couldn't have gotten far."

"He's okay." The medic said, "I'll just need to take him to medical for a full scan and make sure he's all set for duty."

"That's nice to hear. If you're free later, captain, do you mind updating me on the situation if I'm still in the med bay?"

She was a little taken aback by such a casual request and the other stormtroopers went quiet.

"We'll see."