Chapter 1: Jakku
A flicker of sunlight peered through a crack in the hull of the vessel interior, shining some light onto a long figure inside the vessel. The figure was clad in a light tannish tonic esk top with grey leggings and grey wrappings around the arms. Strapped to their back was a large pole like object.
The figure wore cloth coverings around their head with goggles over their eyes. They had a large satchel over their right shoulder as they looked through the parts inside a section of the ship.
"Ahh ha." The figure let out in some relief as the pulled out a cooling capaciter from the infrastructure.
The figure put the part inside their satchel before climbing down to the sand filled floor of the ship.
The figure looked up at the sunlight and noticed it thinking directly at her. No other area inside the dark and desolate wreckage was lit up as much as she was now.
The figure couldn't help but feel slightly uplifted by this, taking it as a sign of something good.
The figure left the wrecked ship and looked back at it, the sun shining from the other side.
The wreckage of the behemoth Star Destroyer blocking a bit of the sun.
The figure removed their goggles and head wrappings, revealing a young woman. Her skin light naturally but tanned from years in the sun. She had haze eyes and long brown hair that went down and slightly past her shoulder.
She stretched her arms and rubbed her aching shoulder, the weight of the bag straining her from carrying the parts all day.
She walked over to a red speeder shaped almost in a rectangular fashion. The speeder had a dusty net attached to the side, the young woman putting her satchel inside before climbing onto the speeder and putting her goggles back on
The speeder looked to be very makeshift, almost as if it were made from various scavenged parts, but well made from them.
The young woman sped across the sandy dunes of the desert planet.
The dunes were littered by the remnants of a once great battle. Hundreds of crashed x-wings, y-wings, a-wings, and tie-fighters joined by wreckages of cornelian corvettes, nebula-frigates, victory cruisers, star destroyers, and mon-calimari capital ships.
Around each of these wreckages were dozens of various aliens , each leaving the various wreckages with parts in tow.
As the sun started to go down as the young woman approached a large camp.
The camp seemed to be quite makeshift, many of the buildings were tents made of ship parts, or crashed ships themselves, various aliens bringing their hauls to the tents.
The young woman stopped as she removed her goggles and stepped down, despite her shoulder's soreness she held up her bag of scavenged parts and got in line to a hut made of scavenged metal in the center of the camp.
The hut itself was circular in shape with a pointed top on the roof.
As the young woman waited, she noticed one of the aliens slowly moving towards her speeder.
"Willoc." She said as the alien turned and snarled at her.
The young woman gave an irritated look as she reached for the pole satcheled on her back.
She twisted the top as the alien backed up looking more afraid.
The young woman smiled.
"That's what I thought." She said before turning back.
Despite the tedious wait, the others in line could see the optimism and hint of excitement on the young woman's face.
She kept looking at the sky for ships, a few coming and going.
Finally she reached the counter where she saw none other than the junk boss himself. The crolute was tall and fat, he had pinkish skin with a big nose and a neck so fat it looked as if he had no chin. He wore a green shirt and black pants with a leather hat on and metal plates over the front of his shirt.
Rey put her parts on the counter, the alien took out a vision enhancer as he looked closer at the parts.
"Those are from an Imperial Mark-II, they're the best you can find here on Jakku I can assure you. Much better than the junk you'd get from one of those Mon-Calimari cruisers."
"Shut up, and let me examine these parts." The alien snorted.
"Sorry Unkar, just trying to make your job easier."
The alien looked at the young woman's happy expression with a condescending look.
"What's got you in such an optimistic mood today Rey?"
"Today's the day I leave this planet."
"Ahh of course it is, it's only been how many years and you still think they're coming back. At first I found it funny, now it's almost sad."
"Alright Plutt, but as I was saying, my parts are-"
"Worth one-quarter portion."
Unkar took Rey's parts behind the counter before placing a small sealed package with four blue stone like items inside.
Despite this news, Rey took the package and left with the same optimism.
She walked through the camp and to a moister vapor, taking out a canteen and putting it beside the nozzle before filling it.
Rey looked around at the other scavengers, a few waving at her while others either ignored her or gave the young woman nasty looks.
After filling her canteen Rey approached a more open area of the camp where several of the ships took off or landed.
An older human woman sat near the area with a data pad.
"Evening Terra."
The wrinkled woman turned to the younger woman.
"Ahh Rey, back from the bountiful treasure hunting I see."
"If it were bountiful I wouldn't be wearing this trash would I?"
The old woman laughed a little.
"I suppose that's true."
Rey's excitement turned to nervousness.
"Terra, I have to ask…Any of the incoming ships today…."
Terra's expression changed as well.
"Rey….I'm afraid no humans in today….I'm sorry."
The excitement and optimism from before soon faded as Rey took a deep breath.
"I understand."
Rey turned as the older woman gave a compassionate look for the younger woman.
Rey rode her speeder across the sand before she reached the wreckage of an AT-AT walker. Rey carefully entered in through the bottom.
The sand filled compartment had a hammock set up with a small doll made of makeshift material, the doll was dressed in orange like an old pilot, another dressed as a rebel soldier.
Rey went to a dirty pan and poured some water in before opening the package, she poured one of the powdered objects into the water before lighting a fire under another pan and putting the other blue objects over a cooking pan.
She waited a few minutes, looking over at the wall before going over to it and marking a tally, beside the tally scratch were hundreds of not thousands of other tally marks.
Rey returned before the powder turned into a muffin shaped blue pastry and the blue objects turned green.
Rey took a fork and put each on a plate before grabbing her water canteen.
Rey sat outside as the sun continued to set, resting against one of the walker's front feet. Rey ate as she looked at one of the ships leaving Jakku, sighing as she lowered her head.
After finishing her dinner, Rey took her poll and water canteen before boarding her speeder again.
She drove out further into the desert before reaching a very small camp near a plateau.
A single tent was there with a fire outside.
Rey parked the speeder before she dismounted and approached the tent. An old human man came out dressed in a brown raggedy robe. He had blue eyes and thin whit hair with a thinner teared and mustache.
"Sorry I'm late Lor." Rey said.
"Late? No you're just in time my friend, come let's begin."
Several hours passed as Rey felt herself drenched in sweat as she struggled to breath.
Rey held up a vibrosword as she faced Lor whom also had one.
Rey made a few lunge strikes, but the older man knocked them away before tripping Rey.
Rey quickly recovered and got back up before catching her teacher's sword.
The older man smiled.
"Well done, the last time I got you with that move."
"I guess I am learning." Rey said smiling before she got up and continued attacking the older man before he eventually knocked her sword to the ground.
"Well your grip clearly still needs work."
"Yes Lor." Rey said picking it up.
"You look more tired than usual. Are you getting enough to eat Rey?"
She sighed.
"Enough."
"Clearly not, we've trained enough, sit eat, I have some freshly caught meat."
"No Lor I couldn't possibly-"
"Rey I'm an old man, if I eat this much meat I'll get fat. You're young and don't eat enough."
Rey gave in and sat beside the older man as he served her some of the meat.
"Has that fool who runs Niima outpost been giving you more trouble."
Rey shook her head.
"No more than the others have. Though I will admit, these lessons have been helping me fend them off."
Lor smiled.
"The sword is a much more civilized weapon than a blaster. A weapon of a better age than this. Any fool with a blaster can commit a massacre to those without blasters."
"Couldn't you say the same about a sword."
"Yes, but who carries swords these days?" The old man said as Rey laughed hard.
"It's good to see you so happy child. Today of all days."
Rey sighed.
"I thought today was the day, I don't know why, but something inside me said today was the day they come and take me home."
Lor gave a compassionate look as he put his hand on Rey's shoulder.
"You must never give up hope Rey, some day you will see your family again."
Rey finished eating before she used part of her tunic to wipe her mouth. She got up and opened up the top of the pole she had earlier before placing her vibrosword inside.
"Thank you for the lesson master, and dinner. Same time tomorrow?"
"Yes, and Rey." Lor said as Rey turned back to him.
"Happy nineteenth birthday."
Rey nodded before boarding her speeder and departing.
Lor watched Rey leave before taking a deep breath. He went back into his tent before carefully opening a box with a small cloth bag inside.
He held it tightly.
"…..Tomorrow, yes, tomorrow I tell her the truth…Even if she's not ready, she deserves to know."
Moments later Lor heard something else, he saw lights around his camp before leaving his tent.
Lor looked at the night sky before several objects moved towards him the objects got closer and closer before he realized they were ships.
Lor took a deep breath as the first ship landed, a blue and white X-wing soon joined by a dozen others as well as several transport like craft.
Out of the ships came dozens of humans and aliens wearing tan jacket uniforms with brown helmets that had orange goggle like visors.
The soldiers aimed their weapons at Lor before the pilot of the first x-wing came out, a strange droid came out beside him. The droid being very small , orange and white and riding a metal ball.
The pilot was a human with messy brown hair, brown eyes and tanned skin. He wore a brown jacket with red shoulders and carried a sniper blaster around his back.
"Easy boys, he's a friend." The man said as he approached Lor.
"Lor San Tekka, you're a hard man to find." The pilot said smiling.
Lor kept his same expression.
" A man who doesn't want to be found should be hard to find."
The younger pilot looked the older man over.
"Why don't we talk in your tent, no need for my men around." Lor went inside with the pilot and his droid, the two sitting down.
"Who are you?" Lor asked.
"My name is Captain Poe Dameron, commander of Rapier Squadron of the Resistance. I was sent here to find you."
"What does your extremist organization want with me young man?" Lor asked.
"Extremist, sir I resent that, we fight the good fight, for the people of the galaxy."
"You certainly cause a lot of violence, if the Jedi were still around they would put a stop to your nonsense."
"That's why I'm here, our intelligence says you have a map, a map to the last Jedi."
Lor clutched the bag tighter.
"Why do you believe that?"
Poe's expression changed, he took a deep breath.
"Look I was asked to come here by General Leia Organa. She wants to find her brother, bring back the Jedi order. Something you wanted once."
Lord breathed in.
"She will always be royalty to me…." Lor reluctantly took out the bag.
Poe saw it and anxiously took it, looking excited as he held it.
"Luke Skywalker, the legendary Jedi."
"Promise me, you will give it only to Princess Leia."
Poe nodded.
"I give you my word sir. This will save the galaxy from the First Order."
Lor nodded.
"With the return of the Jedi, the force will be at balance again."
"Hey, why don't you come with us. An old man shouldn't be alone out here on Jakku, I'm sure general Organa would love to see you again."
Lor sighed.
"As much as I would like to, I'm afraid I have a mission here on Jakku, I cannot abandon it."
"A mission? What miss-"
"Poe!" They heard as one of the Resistance soldiers burst in.
"We've got incoming!" He shouted, sounding terrified.
Poe, his droid and Lor came out as they saw the Resistance forces scrambling as Poe looked through his scope at the sky.
Over the planet he could see a massive vessel with several smaller ships flying towards them.
Among them were several shiny Tie-fighters.
"No , no, no, it's the First Order!" Poe shouted.
He ran to his X-wing with the droid close behind him.
"Come on BB-8!" Poe shouted.
Several of his fighters tried to lift up, but the Tie-fighters strafed their position, the fighters being shot down and Poe's x-wing hit.
Poe was shaken before he heard BB-8 beep.
"Damn it, engines are shot."
Poe climbed out as one of his men ran up.
"Sir enemy dropships are coming in."
Poe held his head and frantically paced around.
"Defensive positions now!" He knelt down beside his droid.
"BB-8 this is vital to our victory, you have to get it back to general Organa at any cost, do you understand?"
The droid sounded concerned.
"BB-8, please. I will find you again, but you have to do this."
BB-8 reluctantly opened up his storage compartment as Poe opened up the bag and put a small metal projector inside.
"Go!"
Several First Order Dropships flew towards the camp, the dropships were dark grey and shaped almost in a van shape with a wing on either side and a doors covering the sides.
Inside each dropship were twelve soldiers standing at attention. The soldiers wore stormtrooper like armor. However, it looked more advanced with the abdomen area not armored, the shoulder plates having modified First Order insignias, the helmets looked more narrow with a thinker black visor and more pointed mouth/nose area with a thin black mouth breather area. Under the armor plates was a black tech shirt. The stormtroopers' armor was also a darker desert camo colored with some cloth worn over their shoulders.
The two soldiers in the front carried a shielded riot/esk shield over their left arms and a short carbine in the other hand while the men behind them carried large gatling blasters.
One of the stormtroopers carrying the riot shields shaking a little before the third stormtrooper in line put his hand on the soldier's shoulder.
"Easy Slip, it's going to be ok." The stormtrooper said.
The man kept breathing deeply but nodded.
"Just don't mess up with me right behind you." The stormtrooper with the gatling gun said.
"Lay off him Zeros." The first stormtrooper said.
"I'm ready to kill some resistance scum." The stormtrooper fourth in line said.
"Like we all aren't Nines." Zeros said.
"Be quite." The officer said as he stood third in line on the other side, he wore the same armor but with a grey pauldron over his shoulder.
"Yes sir." They said.
The four dropships began firing down at the Resistance troop transports , disabling them before the lights inside turned green.
"Get ready." The Lieutenant said before the side doors opened.
"Go go go!" He shouted.
Slip and the other stormtrooper with the riot shield came out first , holding their shields up as they absorbed several incoming red blasts of fire.
Slip and the other riot shielder fired back with Zeros and the other trooper with the gatling gun began ripping through the Resistance soldiers with their fire.
The other stormtroopers joined in as they fired blue blasts at the Resistance soldiers, gunning down their adversaries with elite precision and skill. The First Order Stormtroopers made quick work of the first two squads of Resistance soldiers near the front of the camp, not suffering a single casualty.
However, as the Lieutenant lead the way passed a destroyed X-wing, a Bith resistance fighter sprung out and fired two blaster bolts into his chest plate, the officer falling to the ground before Nines fired a bolt that tore through the alien's head.
The officer groaned in pain as he looked at the black smoking blaster shots in his chest plate. One of his men helped him up before they resumed the attack.
Poe sprinted up and above the camp before he got to an elevated position away from the fight and took out his sniper blaster. He saw all of the troopers were deployed from the four dropships and were mercilessly slaughtering his own soldiers.
He carefully took aim at a first order stormtrooper carrying a gatling gun who tore three of his men in half before firing.
Poe smiled as he saw the bolt hit the soldier and knock him down.
However, his smile faded as he saw the stormtrooper slowly get back up, his armor having protected him.
Poe tried to fire again, but one of the stormtroopers with riot shield got in front of his companion, each of Poe's blasts were deflected by the shield.
The heavy gunner got up and resumed firing.
Poe fuming in anger as he saw more of his men get gunned down by the stormtrooper.
Poe saw a leaking fuel line from the fighter the man was taking cover behind and fired at it.
The stormtrooper who had been third in line heard an explosion , he turned and saw Slip get tossed away before landing.
The stormtrooper rushed over and dragged his companion to safety.
The soldier's armor was torn up and blood stained it as well.
He reached up for his companion's face, but only found a cold helmet there, his hand leaving a blood handprint across the face before he laid down and passed.
The stormtrooper began breathing more heavily as the world seemed to slow around him. He stood up as blaster fire flew around him, his fellow Stormtroopers mercilessly shooting down Resistance soldiers, one kicking over a wounded enemy combatant before shooting his head.
Poe was nearly hit as sand slashed into his face. He tried to wipe it out, but another ship landed.
Poe's eyes widened as he saw two figures exit out.
The marked Stormtrooper continued to wonder before.
One of the figures wore a hooded black cloak over black and dark grey plate armor almost similar to the stormtrooper armor. The armor covered his chest, arms, and legs. Over his head and under his hood was a very distinct looking black mask with a black visor.
Beside him was a larger stormtrooper. She was an officer with chrome armor and a black cape behind her.
The man ignited a lightsaber, the blade glowed red but in an almost unstable fashion with a two energy cross guards coming out.
Many of the Resistance fighters cried out in terror seeing the dark forcer user. Most fired on him, but using his off hand he deflected them away using the force before doing so with his lightsaber.
He then used his off hand to lift up several large destroyed ships before hurling them into groups of Resistance soldiers.
Four tried to back away from him, but he tightened his fist and pulled it towards him, the marked stormtrooper could hear the mens' bones snap as they were tossed like rag dolls into the sand.
The dark force user began violently cutting his way through the remaining Resistance Soldiers, the chrome stormtrooper mercilessly gunning down any he missed with deadly precision.
A resistance soldier tried to flank her and stock strike the officer, but she knocked his gun away with her own before grabbing his neck and lifting him up.
The duros alien clutched his neck as he struggled to breath before hearing a snapping sound. The chrome officer dropped him to the ground as the last seven Resistance soldiers threw down their weapons and got to their knees, the men now begging for mercy as several revealed their wet trousers.
They were surrounded by stormtroopers as the dark force user and the officer approached Lor who was guided to them.
The older man had an almost disappointed look on his face as he and the dark force user stared at each other.
"Look how old you've become." The dark force user said, his voice altered by his mask.
"Perhaps, but something far worse has become of you boy."
"You know why I'm here, the map to Skywalker. Where is it?"
"If I still had it, perhaps I would give it too you, he might be the only one left in the galaxy who can save you from yourself boy."
"Where is the map!?" The dark force user said sounding angrier.
"Look at yourself boy, if your parents could see you now. What you've become."
"The boy you and they once knew is gone. I have embraced the dark side of the force."
"You were not always Kylo Ren boy, and no matter how hard you try, you cannot escape your family."
"You're so right." Kylo said before igniting his lightsaber and decapitating Lor.
The Resistance soldiers yelped before Kylo turned and held his hand up, the stormtroopers saw a lone resistance soldier being held in place by the force, as well as his red blaster bolt.
The man wore a brown jacket, looking frustrated at his inability to move.
Nines and another stormtrooper rushed over both hitting him with the stocks of their blaster rifles before dragging him over to Kylo Ren who knelt down in front of him.
There was silence for a few moments.
"So uh , who talks first, you or me? Cause this silence is just uncomfortable." Poe said before Nines smacked the back of his head.
"Hey, easy, I got plenty of personality but looks help too." Poe said.
"The map to Skywalker, he gave it to you didn't he."
Nines and the other stormtrooper violently searched Poe.
"Hey , woah, at least by me dinner first." Nines smacked Poe again before forcing him back down.
"It's not on him sir." Nines said.
" Too bad huh, you came all this way to, not that lovely Jakku isn't worth visiting." Poe said smiling before Nines smacked him again.
"Take him to the ship."
"Ohh goody, I've always wanted to see what First Order ships look like from the inside." Poe said as Nines and the other stormtrooper dragged him.
"Sir, what of the other prisoners?" The chrome stromtrooper asked.
Kylo turned to the men who were shaking in fear.
"They're on no use to us, dispose of them captain Phasma."
"What, no!?" Poe screamed as he tried to break free only for Nines to smack him down again.
The stormtroopers mercilessly gunned down the prisoners, the marked stormtrooper raising his rifle but not firing.
The stormtrooper jumped as the blaster bolt crashed into the side of a ship.
He turned to Slip's body as two other stormtroopers dragged it away.
"Casualties?" Plasma asked the marked Stormtrooper's lieutenant.
"FN-2003 only."
"If it had to be anyone , best it was him, let's go." Phasma said.
Miles away BB-8 could see the smoke in the distance and let out a sad beep before continuing to roll away.
The First Order Ships flew back into orbit where they approached a massive star destroyer esk vessel. The Ship was over 2915 meters long with a more flat command deck to the top of the slowly rising ship center. The ship was covered with turrets and had three hangers, two on the sides and one at the bottom.
The ships landed as Poe was escorted away, the marked stormtrooper stumbled inside, dozens of stormtroopers wearing white variants of their armor as well as dozens of pilots in black armor, and naval personnel in black uniforms with droids helping them do routine work.
The marked stormtrooper got back into one of the dropships before removing his helmet. Underneath the helmet he was covered in sweat, his skin dark with brown eyes and black hair done in a military buzzcut.
He was shaking , holding onto the wall for support.
"FN-2187." He heard before turning to see captain Phasma.
"Yes ma'am." He said.
The chrome captain looked at him for another moment.
"Report to my officer immediately, and who gave you permission to remove your helmet."
"No one ma'am." He said before putting it back on.
Kylo walked through the the halls of the Finalizer before he reached the interrogation chamber.
Inside the dark room, Poe was strapped to a metal board with one of the stormtroopers beating him. Poe's blood was on the soldier's white armor.
Poe was trying to breath as the stormtrooper held his head.
"Are you ready to talk?"
"Ok, ok." Poe said before he brought his head up and spit blood onto the man's helmet.
Poe laughed before the stormtrooper beat him again.
"That's enough." Kylo said as the stormtrooper stopped and turned to him.
"Leave us." The stormtrooper left as Kylo slowly approached Poe.
"Lovely accommodations you have here, though I don't think I'd recommend them to a friend."
Kylo's helmet was now close to Poe's face.
"You will tell me where the map is."
Poe gave a defiant smile.
"No, I won't."
Kylo raised his hand in front of Poe who's expression started to change.
He felt as if something was crushing his mind, a worse pain then anything he had ever felt in his life raked his mind.
Poe began to scream in blood curdling pain.
Moments later Kylo left the chamber and came up to another officer waiting outside.
The officer looked about thirty with light skin, blue eyes, and well trimmed red hair. He wore a black officer's uniform with a trench coat over it and two golden epaulets on the shoulders of the main tunic under the coat.
"He hid the map in a BB astromech droid back on Jakku."
The officer smiled.
"Then we need only retrieve it, I'll send squads down."
"Then it's in your hands now general Hux."
The next morning on Jakku, Rey awoke, still a bit sore from her training session the night before.
"You'd think after years of training the morning soreness would go away. I guess that just means I made progress." Rey said to herself before she grabbed her canteen, her satchel, and her pole.
Rey looked at the wall of tally marks before looking up at the sky, she took a deep breath before climbing onto her speeder.
As ray made her way through the graveyard of giants ,she passed by the ruins of twenty Mon-calimari cruisers surrounding a destroyed Super star destroyer.
A few hours later, Rey came out of the crashed super star destroyer with a satchel full of parts, a few other scavengers looked at her satchel, but Rey grabbed her pole and they returned to their work.
Rey set her bag in the net before she saw smoke in the distance, she realized where the smoke was coming from and gave a horrified expression.
"Lor!"
Rey sped towards her teacher's camp as fast as her speeder would allow, but when she arrived she saw the aftermath of a battle.
Dozens of men wearing the same uniform lay dead around Lor's camp, several destroyed ships among them.
Rey quickly dismounted and looked around.
"Lor! Lor!" She shouted before stopping.
Rey shook as she saw Lor's head cut from his body.
"No, no." She said breaking down in front of her friend's body.
"No!" Rey screamed as she teared up and held his body.
For so many years, Lor had been the only one Rey had ever truly felt close to, now he was gone. Now she truly was alone.
As all of this happened, Poe sat strapped to the metal board when another stormtrooper in white armor came in.
"Ren wants him." The stormtrooper in the room released Poe as the second one dragged him through the ship. As they passed a squad of stormtroopers, Poe was dragged behind a corner, he was still a bit disoriented.
"Can you hear me?" The stormtrooper asked.
"Yeah, what you gonna beat me up here? May as well left me on the table."
"No." He said taking off his helmet.
"I'm getting you out of here."
Poe's expression changed.
"Are you a spy?"
"No, I just need to get out of here. Can you fly a shuttle?"
"Well I am the best star fighter pilot in the Resistance. I suppose I could handle a shuttle." Poe said sarcastically.
"Fine, let's go."
"Wait, what do I call you?" Poe asked.
"I'm FN-2187."
Poe nodded.
"I'm gonna call you Finn."
"…..Alright Fine." Finn said.
Finn put his helmet back on and leaf Poe to the main hanger where they carefully entered a shuttle.
Finn shut the door before helping Poe into the cockpit.
"Alright hang on." Poe said as Finn sat in the seat next to him, taking off his helmet again.
"Shuttle T-6, you are not authorized to take off, who's in there?" The hanger controller asked.
"Go go!" Finn shouted as Poe quickly got the shuttle up and flying out of the hanger.
They flew away from the resurgent-class Star destroyer as Finn let out a breath of relief.
"Alright back to Jakku." Poe said.
"What!? Are you insane, we need to get out of here now!" Finn shouted.
"I'm not leaving without my droid, he has a map to Luke Skywalker!"
Finn shook his head.
"Awww come on!"
Moments later the ship shook as an alert went off.
"Oh no no, that's not good , we're hit." Poe said.
"They shot at us?" Finn said.
"Well I assume they know we're not friendly." The shit was hit again.
"Alright into the escape pod." Poe said as he and Finn got up and ran to the shuttle's escape pod, ejecting before a third blast tore the shuttle apart.
Finn held on fight as he strapped in with Poe across from him.
"This is gonna get rough." Poe said.
Finn nearly lost consciousness as it crashed into the dunes of Jakku.
Finn managed to get himself unstrapped, but was unable to get out, Poe grabbed Finn's arms and dragged him away from the pod.
"You aright there?" Poe asked.
Finn tried to nod.
"Let's get you out of that armor, it's only going to slow you down."
Poe said before he went back into the pod for supplies.
Finn got out of his armor as the glaring heat of the sun came down on him.
Poe had a backpack on as he saw Finn in his black tech under shirt and pants.
"Black , in all this sun. You'll end up drinking all our water in the first hour."
"It's all i've got." Finn said.
Poe shook his head and took off his Jacket before giving it to Finn.
"Your jacket? Are you sure?"
"Just take it , you'll need it."
Finn got up and put the jacket on.
"Now what?"
"We find BB-8 and get off world." Poe said.
"Where is he?"
"I told him to get off world. He's probably heading for a spaceport." Poe said.
"Where's the nearest spaceport?"
"…I have no idea."
"So we're going to wander aimlessly through the desert and hope we find civilization." Finn said.
"Well when you say it like that it sounds bad." Poe said.
The two began walking through the desert together.
"So why did you do that?" Poe asked.
"Do what?"
"Free me? Leave the First Order?"
"I need to get away from them, all of them. I can't do it anymore."
"Alright then. You seem to be trained well, the Resistance could use-"
"No thanks." Finn said.
"Are you sure, we could-"
"I'm sure."
"I'm surprised you were so willing to help me after I got one of your guys."
Finn stopped.
"That was you. The sniper, you killed Slip!" Finn said grabbing Poe by the collar of his shirt.
Poe saw the aggression in Finn's eyes.
"Easy, it was a battle, if you haven't noticed all of my men were killed, a few by your friend."
Finn exhaled as he let Poe go.
"I'm sorry, it's not like I took pleasure in it. But-"
"Shut up and walk." Finn said.
There was silence between the two as they occasionally took a swig of water.
Eventually they saw the graveyard of giants in the distance.
"What is that?" Finn asked.
"The graveyard of giants, the ruins of the battle of Jakku."
"The last battle of the galactic civil war?" Finn asked.
Poe nodded.
"When we finally beat the empire…But at a cost that was far too high." Poe said as he could see hundreds of crashed rebel fighters and dozens of cruisers alongside their imperial counterparts.
"I'm not surprised the First Order didn't tell you about their predecessor's greatest defeat after Endor."
"We studied defeats more than victories, captain Phasma always said you learn more from defeat than from victory." Finn said.
"Well that's probably why the First Order's doing so well. Say , how many star systems does the first order control in the unknown regions?" Poe asked.
"I, I don't know. Thousands at least."
"A thousands , oh that's just great, the empire's back alright, and the new republic still won't do anything about it." Poe said.
"They don't stand a chance." Finn said sounding afraid.
Poe turned to him.
"The things the First Order has planned, what they're capable of. Nobody can stand against them."
Poe sighed.
"We'll just have to see about that."
Onboard the bridge of the Finalizer General Hux and Kylo Ren were with captain Phasma and one of the deck officers.
"Scanners show they crashed in the Goazon Badlands but could be moving towards the ruins of the battle now sir." She said.
"FN-2187 was the one who helped the pilot escape." Kylo said as he turned to Phasma.
"He showed no signs of disobedience before, however, after the battle I was concerned, I ordered him to my officer for evaluation but he never showed up."
Ren turned to Hux.
"It seems one of your soldiers has betrayed us."
"It matters now, we'll soon have the droid back or destroyed." Hux said.
"I want that droid and map back." Kylo said as Hux smiled.
"Not letting your personal feelings getting in the way are you Ren. You may be the leader of the Knights of Ren, but I'm in command here."
Kylo brought his mask within an inch of Hux's face.
"I am Supreme leader Snoke's apprentice, never forget that general. Perhaps when he learns of our deserter, he'll reconsider using a clone army."
Hux swallowed.
"My stormtroopers are perfection, they've been trained from childhood to be nothing but soldiers. No army can stand agains them."
"We'll see general." Kylo said as he left the bridge.
Back on Jakku, Finn and Poe were still walking through the desert, their water having run out.
"Now what?" Finn asked.
Poe took out a flare gun and fired into the air.
"Hello!"
He fired another flare.
"I will not die like this!" Poe shouted as he fired another flare.
The two sat down before hearing something.
Poe got up and saw a large speeder flying at them.
"Finn!"
Finn got up and saw it as well.
They waved the speeder over before it stopped in front of them.
Three aliens were aboard.
"Hey, we need a lift, please." Poe said.
The aliens let the two on as they began to ride.
Finn sat back against the railing before something burst out of the sand, a great worm beast knocked the speeder off balance before Finn was sent tumbling down off the speeder and down the sand dune.
As he got up, Finn saw the speeder was gone.
"Poe! Poe!"
The creature began to move towards Finn as he scrambled to his feet and ran off.
As this happened, Rey drove across Jakku on her speeder. She was still crushed by the death of Lor, nothing else on her mind until she heard something else.
Rey stopped the speeder when she heard a droid crying for help.
Rey dismounted and saw none other than Teedo, the small alien creature riding a luggabeast as he had a small BB astromech droid in a net.
"Teedo, Teedo enough. Let the droid go." She said as the alien shouted at her.
The droid cried for help again before Rey reached for her pole. Teedo let the droid go and went on his way.
"Bottom feeder." Rey said before she got the net off the droid.
"Are you alright?"
The droid beeped.
"Well pleasure to meet you BB-8."
BB-8 responded.
"Need to get off world, well Niima outpost is your best bet. It's close enough and has transports."
BB-8 beeped in approval.
Rey sighed.
"Alright I suppose you can come with me, just stay close. Most people there would rip you apart for your parts."
Rey and BB-8 eventually arrived at Niima outpost , Rey carrying her haul for the day.
BB-8 saw the expression on Rey's face and beeped.
"It's , 'sigh' it's nothing.I just, lost someone close to me today."
BB-8 responded.
"Don't say that, I'm sure your master is fine."
Rey saw many of the other scavengers eyeball BB-8 who moved closer to Rey.
Rey eventually got to the front before Unkar looked at them.
"Cmmmmmmm, all of these parts are worth , one-half portion."
"One-half portion? Last time I brought you these exact parts I got a full portion." Rey said defensively.
"Yes, but last time I had fewer, they're worth less now that I have more…..Wait, is that a BB-8 droid?"
"Yes?" Rey said.
"Well, I'd like to buy him from you. I'll give you a hundred full portions." Unkar said as he sat the portions down.
Rey's eyes lit up as she saw the sheer amount of food before her.
For a brief moment she motioned towards it before looking back at BB-8.
The young woman sighed as she shook her head.
"No, he's not for sale." She took the half portion and left with BB-8.
Unkar quickly pulled his portions back inside before taking out a communicator.
"Get me that droid, and do it quickly." He said.
Finn finally got away from the worm and panted as he stood on top of a sandy hill. However, as he looked down he saw a large camp with ships landed in it.
Finn rushed down towards the camp as fast as he could.
Finn got to the camp and tried to make his way through it, receiving some unfriendly looks from the various scavengers inside.
"Hello, can I get transport off this world? Hello?"
He came up to a scavenger with a metal mask around her head, she spoke in a dialect Finn had never heard before , Finn backing up and away from her.
Moments later Finn heard something else.
He turned and saw a young woman with a BB astromech droid being attacked by one of the scavengers. The alien and the young woman were struggling over her pole, the young woman desperately trying to pull it free, but the alien was bigger and stronger.
The BB droid took out a shocker and zapped the alien, making him let go as the young woman pulled a vibroblade from the pole and slashed it at the alien who backed up.
"Stay back!" She said before another alien grabbed her wrists and held her in place.
The alien growled at the young woman who tried desperately to break free.
However, before the alien could do anything else he was punched across the face by Finn who had rushed over.
The alien let go and tried to strike Finn who caught the alien's arm before coming down and grabbing his ankle before flipping him onto the ground.
The other alien came and knocked Finn back onto the ground before Ray slashed at him, cutting both of his hands as the second one pulled out a blaster.
Rey slashed the alien's hand in half as she broke the gun.
Finn getting back up and tackling the other alien into the ground as he tried to grab Rey.
The two aliens ran off in pain as Finn got up.
"Hey are you alright."
Rey shook her head as she saw the blood on her sword.
"And I just cleaned this too. Yes, I'm alright, not the first time one of these brutes have tried to rob me, I took up this sport just for such occasion. But thank you for helping me." She said as she put her blade back in the pole and put it around her back.
"I'm Finn."
"Rey."
BB-8 beeped loudly as he looked at Finn's jacket.
Rey's expression changed.
"BB-8 says that's his owner's Jacket."
"You're Poe's droid, the one he's looking for!"
BB-8 beeped in excitement.
"You know this droid's owner?"
"Yes he's in the Resistance."
Rey looked excited.
"The Resistance, are you in it too?"
"…..Yes, yes I am." Finn said.
"We're on a mission, to find a map to Luke Skywalker that the droid has."
"Luke Skywalker, the Luke Skywalker!" Rey almost shouted.
BB-8 beeped again.
"Where's this Poe?"
"We got separated, but he-" Finn started before they heard something.
"Over there!" Finn saw a pair of First Order Stormtroopers across the camp.
"No no no! The First Order's here!"
"What!?" Rey shouted sounding afraid.
"Stop them!" One of the stormtroopers shouted.
"Come on!" Finn said grabbing Rey's hand as the two ran with BB-8 close behind.
"Where are we going?!" Rey shouted.
"Aware from here, we need to get off Jakku!"
"I can't leave Jakku, I-" Rey started before the tent behind them was torn apart by blaster fire.
Rey turned back to Finn.
"Well maybe we can get away from the blaster fire at least." She said.
Moments later Finn heard a familiar sound.
He looked up in horror to see a Tie fighter flying at them.
"No no no no! We need a ship!" Finn shouted.
"Come on we can take the Quadjumper." Rey said taking the lead.
"What about that one?" He said pointing to a closer ship.
"What ship's junk." Rey said before fire from the tie fighter hit and blew up the quad jumper.
"….The junk it is." Rey said before the three rushed into the light and old circular shaped cornelian freighter.
Once inside Finn closed the ramp.
"Can you fly this thing?" Finn asked.
"Well a life time of ripping ships apart didn't exactly prepare me to fly one now did it. What about you?"
"I'm no pilot." Finn said.
Rey held her head.
"Just great."
BB-8 beeped.
"You helped Poe fly his ships, you think you could help me?"
BB-8 agreed.
"Alright i'll have to do my best with you. Come on." Rey and BB-8 rushed into the cockpit as Finn got into the lower gun-turret.
Rey sat down as BB-8 plugged in.
"Run me through it BB-8." She said before the ship slowly took off.
Rey looked excited.
"I did it, I'm flying a shi-" Rey lost control and crashed the ship across the ground , scavengers running in fear as she tore up half the camp, including Unkar's shack , his portions spilling everywhere as scavengers rushed in to take them.
"Sorry!" Rey shouted looking embarrassed.
Unkar was on the ground shouting for them to return his ship.
"We've got company!" Finn shouted as the Tie fighter flew after them.
"Shoot him down!"
"I'm trying! This targeting system is ancient!" Finn shouted as his blasts kept missing the tie fighter.
Rey did her best to fly the ship, but even with BB-8's help she made erratic movements and kept hitting sand dunes and the edges of wrecks.
The ship shook as the Tie fighter's blasts hit them again and again.
"BB-8 how's our shields?"
BB-8 responded.
"Great, then again we may crash before we get shot down." Rey said before they were hit again.
Finn gave a frustrated grunt as the Tie fighter continued to avoid his fire.
"Hold still, come on." Finn said as sweat came down his head.
He couldn't get a lock on the Tie fighter.
Rey heard an alert go off.
"Our shields are about to shatter, can't you hit him?"
"Can't you fly straight!?" Finn shouted back as Rey gave another embarrassed look.
She then saw the wreckage of the super star destroyer from earlier and had an idea.
"No , no, no , Rey what are you doing. Finn, I've got a really bad idea."
"A bad idea? What are you?" Finn started before Rey flew through the ship.
The Tie fighter flew over it safely as Rey bumped into many rusty pieces of metal in the ship.
Finn was thrown around in his feet as Rey did her best to not crash.
"Please don't crash, please don't crash, please don't crash." She said before BB-8 fired the front guns and blew a hole large enough for them to fly out before flying almost straight down.
Finn finally had the tie fighter in his sights and fired, one of his blasts hitting the tie fighter's right wing and caused it to crash into a sand dune where it was half buried.
"Woah, we got him. Huh I thought it would explode, guess now." Finn said.
Rey sat back and tried to catch her breath, she had to hold her head as sweat ran down her face.
BB-8 beeped in happiness.
Onboard the Finalizer Kylo stood alone on the bridge before a naval personal nervously approached him.
"Ssssir, news from Jakku. It appears that the traitor FN-2187 has gotten off world with the droid and-"
The man saw all of the chairs begin to lift up on their own before being crushed by the force.
"Anything else you'd like to report?"
"There was also girl-" He started before being force pulled into Ren's grip.
"What girl?"
Author's note
So here is part one, I hope you guys like it, as I said it's more or less the same with some changes, let me know if you guys like the changes or don't, and let me know what you do or don't like about them.
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