Planet Jakku

"This will begin to make things right," I stayed in the corner of the room near the opening of the small hut as the conversation was going on. I was keeping my eye on the village that we were in, seeing nothing but the darkness and feeling the peace there within the area. People were coming and going, not making me think that we should be afraid of them. I tapped the implant in my ear to see if I could hear anything on my radar and with my communications there in the earpiece. Nothing, nothing yet. In my mind, I was still thinking that we should be on alert, but of course, my partner that I flew out with on this mission, he was thinking that this was just another day on the job.

Of course, he did.

"Well, because of you we now have a chance. The General's been after this for a long time," I finally looked over at the two men, seeing my partner holding the small pouch within his hand and talking to the older gentleman there: Lord San Tekka. He knew of the General and what she had to offer with the Resistance, and we were glad to be out there on Jakku to get something vitally important. It was a clue, a clue that would lead us to someone that can make things right again in the galaxy.

" 'The General'? To me, she's royalty." Lor San Tekka said to my partner as I heard something beeping and whirling our way outside the hut, I looked back out to see the small rolling droid that was coming our way in such a rush that it made me panic. I shifted a bit now, almost in a defensive kind of stance as I saw him right in front of me, talking to me.

BB-8.

"Well, she certainly is that." My partner replied as the droid was explaining to me what was going on. I shot a look to my partner, over my shoulder now.

"Poe," I said to him in a warning as BB-8 rolled into the room and communicated with Poe in earnest. Poe looked over at me as I could hear something in my earpiece, having me squint a bit as something was coming in and I could hear what was going on.

"Prepare for landing, find them at all costs." It was clear within my ear as I looked back at Poe in horror, seeing him then shoot his eyes over to Tekka.

'We've got company." All of us rushed out from the hut and into the open, seeing some of the people walking around and hearing nothing but a soft noise in the distance of something landing, more than one of them landing. Poe grabbed his quadnoculars, looking through at the sight in front of us now as I saw what he was looking at. Vessels, carriers mostly, coming into the atmosphere and about to land at the outer edge of the village. Poe lowered the device, seeming like he was about to be in fear as I was too. This was not part of the plan, and we had no idea what to do then. It was supposed to be quiet, not this.

"You need to hide," I warned Lor San Tekka now in my own eyes.

"You two need to leave," He said to Poe and me, the both of us watching him and he nodded, "Go!" I watched Poe, seeing him think to himself as they were getting close and closer now to the village, and the chaos was about to begin. We had what we wanted, what we needed in order to make things right and get things rolling, so we had to get out of dodge now before it could all go downhill from here.

"Poe," I said to Poe, seeing him finally turn his eyes away from Tekka and nodding at me, BB-8 chirping in agreement. The three of us were off, running as fast as we could and I was trying to keep up with Poe, BB-8 right behind us. We had to get more space between us, right between us and what was going to happen. A part of me wanted to go back and protect the people there since they were about to be slaughtered. But we weren't meant to be there for that reason.

"Come on, BB-8! Hurry!" He urged BB-8 now as we were trying to move through the hills now and the firing was now being heard, cries were exploding in the air and everything was flashing all around us. We finally made it over to Poe's X-Wing, my own X-Wing was tucked away in another part of the area, further down and hiding behind a hill that no one can really see and I thought would be more convenient and better hidden.

"Get to your X-Wing!" Poe ordered me as he was about to hop into his X-Wing and BB-8 was swooped up into this spot into the vessel. But I shook my head, grabbing my blaster in my hand from my hip and I walked over in a brisk pace, leaning over the top of the sandhill to aim at any of the stormtroopers that were shooting at the villagers.

"You need cover!" I said back to him, hearing him sigh as I charged up my blaster.

"I'm not leaving you here on the ground, you out of your mind?!" He asked me as more shots were heard. I started firing, getting out one or two of the ten stormtroopers that spotted us and were firing at us now.

I could hear the cannon gun on the X-Wing moving around and I kept my eyes on the enemy that was coming closer and closer now, hearing him take a few shots from the X-Wing. Poe was trying to fend them off now as well as I was. I barely escaped one that was about to hit me hard in the chest, but it got to the vessel first, blazing it up and having me look back in horror. Poe was screwed, he was not going to be able to get out of there. I had to think, what were we going to go?"

"Look for the old man. He has what we're looking for!" I heard them again in my implant as Poe got out from the X-Wing, his rifle blaster in hand and he bolted over to where I was, ducking down to get on one knee and take out the artifact that Tekka gave him, pulling it out from the pouch.

"You take this. It's safer with you than it is with me. You get as far away from here as you can. Do you hear me?" He talked to BB-8 as he placed it in the Multi-reader envelope that BB-8 had. I thought he was crazy to give it to his droid, even with BB-8 being a loyal droid to his master, this was insane. BB-8 chirped at him now in a nervous kind of matter, he didn't want Poe to do this.

"I'll come back for you! It'll be alright." Poe reassured him now as he then looked over at me, a small look of determination was in his eyes as he bolted over to me, BB-8 reluctantly rolling away now as we were standing next to each other with our weapons.

"You left it with BB-8? What if they get it?" I asked him over the firing that was getting louder and louder now.

"It's safer with him! He won't let them get to it!" Poe replied, having me look back ahead and fire a bit more with Poe next to me. This was getting out of hand, and we had to get out of here quick with BB-8. I had to think of a plan for the both of us to leave this planet, along with BB-8, alive and in one piece.

"We can make it to my X-Wing!" I said to Poe as he got another trooper down from his shot.

"We can't both fit in it!" He countered back with me as I got one more with my own gun, seeing a larger vessel coming down slowly and the both of us looking up in what seemed to be horror. This one looked more sinister, black all around and was another shuttlecraft that was bigger and more edgy landing near the other shuttle crafts. The villagers were rounded up in the middle, having me see Lor San Tekka being escorted to the middle now by two stormtroopers.

"What do we do?" I asked Poe in a whisper as the bay doors for the bigger craft was opening, more stormtroopers and a black figured man coming out, walking over to our ally in a determined stride.

"Go back to your ship, call for help, but get out of here," Poe said to me in his own hushed tone as I shot him a look.

"You crazy?" I asked him in a hiss, "I'm not going back without you."

"Don't argue with me," He snapped back at me, but before I could even argue back at him the dark figure spoke to Tekka now, his voice sounding more mechanical than anything and it gave me a bolt of fear down my spine.

"Look how old you've become," He said to Tekka, leering down at him since he was a bit taller from his spot. But I saw Tekka hold his spot, looking back at the black figure now with more wisdom and almost with a hint of shame.

"Something far worse had happened to you." he replied to him now, having me shift a bit now and have more a sick feeling that something was going to go from bad to worse.

"You know what I've come for."

"I know where you come from. Before you called yourself Kylo Ren." Tekka answered him back.

"The map to skywalker. We know you've found it, and now you're going to give it to the First Order." I felt Poe shirting too next to me, almost to where I was now and having me think that he was thinking the same thing: trouble.

"The first Order rose from the dark side, you did not."

"I'll show you the dark side."

"You may try, but you cannot deny the truth that is your family." I felt as though we were watching a conversation that should be private, and I heard nothing from the back figure now as he was looking down at Tekka for a moment or two like he was drinking it in.

"You're so right," it all happened at once, a lightsaber was in his hand and before I could even blink, he sliced it own on Tekka now. Tekka fell tot he ground within seconds, and I felt a gasp escape my lips from what I just saw. I saw a murder there, right in front of me from this man who apparently was with the First Order. I didn't think it happened, but it was so fat that I couldn't think of anything else to do. But then I had another problem on my hand, hearing something from Poe now as I looked over in a shocked face. He was gone.

"Oh no,"

He shot his rifle blaster at the figure, but as soon as he did that, the figure threw out his hand and he somehow stopped the blast from hitting him. In fact, it froze in midair and Poe was somehow stuck too, a hold was on him and I realized what it was. The figure, he was a Jedi, and he was making Poe frozen there in his spot and not able to move. I was still out sight, not able to be seen as two stormtroopers grabbed Poe now and walked him over to the figure, apparently Kylo Ren. I felt obligated to go after him, to stop Poe from getting hurt, but then again Poe would be hating me at the moment. I saw him look at the frozen blast in midair as he walked by it, then his eyes finding me there and I saw him lock his eyes with me. He shook his head once, having me see that he wanted me to stay.

He wanted me to stay out of it.

He was brought to his knees, Kylo Ren then going to squat in front of him to be at the same level, I had to watch and I was about to hear some more beeping behind me, having me freeze and immediately look my gaze behind me to find that it was BB-8. Apparently he didn't go far now, having me look back at Poe once more and then feel obligated to go to BB-8. He was not supposed to be here since Poe sent him away and he still had the artifact.

"You need to leave, you heard your master." I hissed at BB-8 as I now moved over to him now and knelt down in front of him, hearing BB-8 chirp back at me now as I now was confused as to what he was telling me.

"A map?" I asked him now, then hearing another round of firing again from the village and I felt as thought my own heart dropped. I wanted to go back and find Poe, thinking that he was still alive and that he was spared, but the firing was getting more and more intense, BBp8 using one of his mechanical arms to tug at me. He wanted me to get away now as I clung onto my blaster within my hand. I was torn: go after Poe or run for myself and for BB-8. I had to take that latter, Poe had to fend for himself, much for my dismay.

"Come on, BB-8," I said to him as we both then moved over to the area where I knew my X-Wing was going to be. We were running again, along the sand and hearing more and more cries of death and pain from the villagers now. It felt wrong for me to run, to get away and leave Poe behind. I knew he could handle himself, he always has been able to handle himself. But this time, it felt wrong, being taken by the First Order. He had to know what he was doing, right?

"We need to get out of here, come on!" I urged BB-8 some more as we were trying to move out of the way and out of sight from what was going on in the village. I was sprinting at this point, feeling my heart about to be pumped out of my chest over and over again now as I then was shot in my lower left calf, having me fall to the floor. Someone shot at me, having em grunt out in pain as my own blast fell out of my hands and I hit the dirt real hard. This was bad, real bad as the soaring pain was coming through my leg and into my chest and over my face like a heat wave. Someone shot me, someone wanted to stop me as I then saw BB-8 beep at me in worry.

"Go! Get out of here!" I said to him now, almost trying to shove him away from me now as he was about to try and look at my wound. It was like what Poe said, BB-8 and to get far away from here and be safe, he had what the First Order wanted and if they got to the droid first, then all would be lost. BB-8 quivered a bit, the sound of footsteps were coming right behind me now as the droid then rolled away now since I could tell someone was coming and he was trying to bolt away now.

I finally turned the searing pain of my leg having me gasp out as I was back on my back again and looking up at the sky. A stormtrooper was looming over me now, his weapon in his hand now and he was looming over me. I honestly thought I was going to die at that point, that this stormtrooper was going to either turn me in with Poe or shoot me there in the sand and end it once and for all.

There was blood on his helmet, four lines there that looked like fingers that were there and was smeared off. It was almost frightening for me to see, and I stayed so still thinking that he was going to blast me at any moment. But nothing happened, moment after moment he didn't do a single thing. What was he going to do?

"Please," I asked him, having me think that it was going to be pathetic for me to say it like that to him. I didn't know what else to say, and it seemed like a doomed thing for me to ask him to spare my life. He looked at me some more, but then I saw him look over his shoulder at the village again, his stance was rigid and almost like he was not wanting to be there. It was not like a stormtrooper, to look more frigid and spook compared to the others. When he looked back at me, I thought I saw his stance soften a bit now.

"I'm sorry." he said to me, raising his blaster and them hitting me across the face with it, having me black out and seeing nothing but black.