This is a thought experiment how to slot Hux into TROS without changing anything about the script, just adding a couple of minutes. Each scene has two versions, one for the movie and an expanded one that only occurs in the novelisation.
Movie: Finn forces Hux to come along because he is a bigger liability now than he could be useful going from here.
Novel: Finn tells him "You just yelled "I'm the spy" into the closest security camera, so what did you expect we'd do?!"
Movie: Hux says "You people fly in this? You're braver than I thought", what predictably triggers Chewbacca into grabbing him by the throat. At first the General hisses back, but that's difficult to maintain when breath runs out.
Novel: Translated by Threepio, Chewie explains that he wants to honor the General having saved his life by speaking up against an eventual execution. Everything else, however, that might lead to his death, is on Hux alone. Poe comments that "So he'll be with us ten minutes tops, fine with me".
Novel: There is an additional scene in which Chewbacca takes Hux aside and asks him about Kylo/Ben, about whom he suffers conflicting feelings (even better if the Kylo tortures Chewie on the Steadfast scene stays in in the movie in this reality). Evasive at first, the General eventually shares a few anecdotes. It is difficult for him to percieve the Wookiee as a family member of Ben's instead of a pet.
Movie: Jannah and the orbak riders are initially hostile after seeing Hux.
Novel: Hux wonders how they could recognize him. This doesn't look like a world that can receive First Order propaganda shows.
Movie: Finn, Hux and Jannah at work. Finn opens up to the General about something he is anxious to share with his friends: He misses small things about First Order life, like a favorite cafeteria food, but is afraid to bring it up even to Poe's ears, because that could get interpreted as missing the First Order. Hux realizes that if he never has to see the imperial fossils again, that'll still be too early. HIS First Order will be streamlined and efficient. Jannah replies "Yes, I get that", causing a puzzled look from Hux. The comment was actually meant for Finn and leads into Jannah sharing her past. While the two enthuse about their experience, Hux slinks away.
Movie: Rey drafts Hux to assist him reaching the ruins.
Novel: Because it's a risky endeavour and he is the most expendable.
Hux thinks about how he hates rain.
Movie: While the duo explores the place, at one point Hux casually kicks a dead stormtrooper out of the way. He drones on about engineering improvements of Starkiller over the DS-2 battle station.
Novel: Rey says "You must have studied those ruins extensively, do you still know your way around?" To which Hux replies that he studied the plans, not the real thing. "Don't you ever just... live? In the real world?" Rey wonders, but doesn't get an answer.
Hux also reveals his exact degree: Engineering Management.
Movie: Hux urges Rey to just ignore the spectre, because it obviously isn't - cannot! - be real. The "obviously not real" spectre just slaps him aside and he spends the rest of the encounter unconscious. He also doesn't witness Kylo's death (the one thing he dearly wanted out of this arrangement).
Movie: Hux is briefly seen in the background arguing about something with Rose.
Novel: While everyone knows he is a prisoner, the General staunchly percieves himself as a temporaty ally, to the point where he makes himself actually useful. The argument was really about some technical stuff and more productive than antagonistic.
Movie: Hux calls it a "cheap shock effect" and claims the planet had no tactical value. The First Order only chose it for the demonstration because they knew the rebels had been there a short while ago. It's painfully obvious that he disagrees with the choice of a target, not with the act itself.
Novel: Finn snaps at Hux what about whether Hosnia was a "cheap shock effect", too. The General defends the decision to fire Starkiller. Between the Resistance and the Republic, the first was the bigger threat, so cutting them off their support was strategically sound. Unfortunately Kylo Ren's erratic decisons and borderline romantic affection for the scavenger, not to mention him letting the Resistance escape by dueling "a hologram of Skywalker" for a full ten minutes, undermined and voided everything the First Order had gained from the act. In the end it was therefore overpaid for too little gain. But with Kylo gone now, things will change.
Movie: Hux is in the battle, no explanation.
Novel: Because they want to keep an eye on him.
Movie: At one point both Hux and C-3PO blurt out the deplorable chances for a certain maneuver. Hux' estimate comes really close to Threepio's calculation and they are both offended at getting told to shut up.
Novel: Maybe two or three more such instances. I just think they'd harmonize really well.
Movie: When the overwhelming force arrives, Hux realizes that he cannot put the galaxy under control again. It is over. He kills himself with either a small blade hidden in his sleave or a blaster that he takes from someone else.
Novel: Hux states briefly before the arrival that a victory at Exegol only takes out the auxiliary fleet and the "Sith menace", leaving the well fucntioning First Order intact. He intends to return and assume command.
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