For my whole life I've been the different one of my family, but I knew that it never meant that they loved me any less.
Over a year before I was born, and months after my parents have been trying for another child, they were told that they would never be able to have another child, but that never lowered their spirits because they kept on trying; until I came along. The thing that makes me different from my family is that I'm force sensitive, and no one else in my family is. I was one of many padawans that trained under the teaching of Luke Skywalker. I knew and was friends with everyone there, even Ben Solo. I was there when Ben murdered all the padawans in cold blood, but for some reason he left me unharmed... he let me escape.
After that I became a part of the Resistance and laid down my lightsaber. My brother, Poe Dameron, taught me how to pilot a X-Wing while I also got my training as a healer and a mechanic. I actually was the one to build BB-8 for my brother as a birthday gift.
My name is Alanis Lena Cleo Dameron. I'm a Jedi Knight, a Pilot, a Healer, and a Mechanic. I know that this story has been told many times in different way, but this is my side of the story.
"Please at least promise me that you'll come back... safely!" I said to my brother as he pulled on his brown leather jacket that used to belong to our father. "Ali, I'll be fine. I'm not going to be gone that long, and it's not like I'm going to be walking into a fire fight. I'm going to get the possible information on where Luke Skywalker is." He said trying to calm me down, but he knew that it would work. "Yeah the same information that the First Order wants to get their hands on so they can KILL HIM." I argued to him as we started to walk to his X-Wing along with his droid BB-8.
"I just don't want to lose you. You're the only family I have left." I said to him. "And you never will loose me. I promise you that I will come back. Have I ever broken a promise before, Ali?" He asked me. "You almost broke one a few days ago, so..." I said, speaking in a low voice. "Ali!" he exclaimed with a slight chuckle in his voice. I was about to say something but BB-8 started to repeatedly bump into his legs as his signal that they needed to leave. Before he could look back up at me, I had my arms wrapped securely around him, and the force of me throwing myself at him nearly knocked him off of his feet. "I'll be alright, Alanis" he said as I pulled away from our hug as he wiped the tears that were slowly sliding down my face. I smiled smally at him as I kneeled down to BB-8. "You make sure that he doesn't do anything crazy out there. You understand me?" I said as Poe just chuckled. 'Yes, I understand.' BB-8 said back to me. The next thing I know, BB-8 is hooked up to Poe's X-Wing and Poe is climbing into the cockpit, and starting up the engine. Just before he takes off he looks down to me and smiles and waves before he takes off to Jakku
Three days had passed, and there has been no contact from either Poe or BB-8. I was getting more nervous each hour that would pass by that nothing was said on if they had made any contact. I was becoming more and more afraid as the hours went by that I didn't hear of any contact. Today was the day that I finally snapped and was now walking about the base in look of the General. I knew that there was something that I was not being told. I could feel that something bad has happened, and I think that the only way for me to find out was to go to Jakku and see for myself on if anything bad happened to my brother. So that night I hopped into my X-Wing that night and set a course to Jakku.
The whole ride I started to feel a presence that I hadn't felt in years, but I tried to ignore it and keep myself focused on the objective that I've put myself into. When I dropped out of hyperspace and saw a view of the planet that was covered in sand, every square inch of it. I landed in a small outpost before powering down, and hopping out of my X-Wing onto the sandy terrain. The heat of the sun beating down on my face making sweat instantly come on my face. I look around to see if there was anyone that could actually be of use to me while having a firm grip on my blaster. My head instantly shot to the right when I heard familiar beeping that was getting louder, as if it was coming straight towards me. When I saw a familiar orange and white droid rolling to me a small smile appeared on my face as I kneeled down to the droid.
"BB-8! I can't express how happy I am that I found you. Where's Poe? Is he here with you?" I asked the droid, but before I could get an answer I felt 2 new and unfamiliar presence coming towards me. I instantly stood up, blaster drawn, and pointing at a young man and women, no older than 19 years, and the boy having my brother's jacket on him. When they saw the blaster that was pointed at them they both abruptly stopped and looked at me with wide eyes with a bit of fear in them, not daring to move. "Who are you two?!" I asked them, my voice having a snapping tone to it. A series of beeps were heard from BB-8 as I had my blaster still pointed at the two. 'Wait! Wait! You can trust them, well mainly the girl. She saved me from being sold for parts. The other one says that he helped Poe escape from the First Order, but that their ship crashed and that Poe didn't make it. He says that's why he has his jacket' BB-8 said frantically. "It's true, all of it." said the voice of the girl. I lowered my blaster, and they both relaxed, then I remembered a part of what BB-8 said to me causing me to turn towards the droid. "Did you just say that Poe is dead?!" I asked, worried of what the answer was gonna be, but all BB-8 did was lower his head in sadness and slowly rolled away.
"You're with the Resistance?" I heard the girl ask me, and all I did was nod my head, still to shocked at the news that I just received to answer verbally. I slowly turned to them and looked at them in the eyes. "Who are yo-" I started to ask but was cut of by BB-8 rolling frantically about some Stormtroopers. The three of us walk over to the droid and saw them. Next thing I know a hand is grabbing hold of mine and started pulling me to run.
"Come on!" the boy yelled as we started running, alerting the Stormtroopers, who started shooting at us. "Let go of me!" both me and the girl yelled to him. "No, we gotta move!" he yelled back to us. "We know how to run without you holding our hands!" the girl yells as we both yank our hands out of his grasp. I looked behind us making sure that BB-8 was with us, and saw that he was trailing behind a few feet. "BB-8 stay close!" I yelled to the droid as he sped up a bit to get closer to us. "This way!" the girl said as we ran towards a tent. "They're shooting at all three of us!" the girl says as she tries to catch her breath. "Yeah, they saw you with us! You're marked!" the boy said to her while he was frantically looking for some sort of weapon. "Well, thanks for that!" she exclaimed. "Hey, I'm not the one who chased you down with a stick!" he says pointing his finger at her before going back to what he was doing. "Does anyone have blasters around here?!" he yelled. I looked to BB-8 that was right next to me and kneeled down to him again. "Are you okay?" I asked as I was responded by a couple of beeps.
Then the boy started to 'shh' us, mainly me, as if he heard something. We all quiet down a bit as we heard the unmistakable sound of TIE Fighters. He grabs our hands again, starting to pull us away from the tent. "Stop taking our hands!" the girl and I said, again, yanking our hands out of his grasp, again. A TIE fighter screams into view from behind the tent, a second one following close behind. A massive blast from them sends us flying, and I felt a massive amount of pain in my shoulder. "Hey!" I heard the girl say behind me as I turned to see her patting on the boy trying to get him to regain consciousness, as he sat up a bit groaning. "Are you both okay?" he asked us with worry in his voice as we looked at him a little shocked. "Yeah." I said to him lightly. "Follow me." the girl said as I held out my hand to help the boy up off the ground.
We started running and we ran out of the outpost away from where most of the action was happening. "We can't outrun them!" the boy yelled as explosions were going off behind us. "We might in that quad-jumper!" the girl said as we ran toward it. "We need a pilot!" the boy added. "We've got one!" I yelled back to him. I could almost feel his shocked gaz on me as he shouted "You?!", causing me to roll my eyes. "What about that ship?" he asked as he motioned to another ship, I didn't look because I was trying to get away from the First Order's attack. "That one's garbage!" the girl shouted as we kept on running. As we were almost to the Quad-Jumper one of the TIE fighters shot at it causing it to blow up in front of us. "The garbage will do!" she said as we turned the other way and started to run towards the piece of junk. As I got a better view of it I gasped and yelled back "That's not garbage!", as we ran toward the Millennium Falcon.