Pod Racer

Sky flew through outer space in her TIE. She wasn't really sure where she was going, but anyplace was better than the imperial ship or Corocuant.

A red flashing light appeared on her ship. "What the-" the ship was starting to sink. There was no doubt what the light meant. She looked around. There was a planet nearby. "That'll have to do." She went down to it.

She parked her TIE in the middle of nowhere. There was a town of some sort nearby but she didn't want to draw attention to herself. Sky jumped out and looked around. She seemed to be in a large desert.

Then a staff came down nearly hitting her. She looked up and growled. She was looking at a brown hooded figure making strange noises. He struck his staff at her again. She launched herself forward and clawed him. He fell over dead. She dragged his body into the TIE. He would make a good meal, but she wasn't hungry yet.

She wandered off towards the town. She only hoped there weren't anymore of those creatures there.

Sky didn't have to worry. There were plenty of strange creatures here, but no more like the one she'd killed. She wandered through the streets. Then she noticed men white suits. Great, there are storm troopers here too. She slipped into one of the side streets to avoid being seen. After turning a corner she seemed to be at the back of some houses.

Her foot hit something. "Ow!" she looked down at what she'd hit. It looked like a chunk of orange metal. Sky tried to take it out of the ground. It wouldn't budge. Must be bigger than I thought. She dug at the sand around it to get it out. She soon found it this thing was much bigger than she expected. It took a good deal of time to dig it out. She stepped back and looked and what she'd uncovered. It was an engine. A big orange engine. Weird. Then she sniffed around. There was more metal. Well, it's not like I have anything else to do. She dug up the rest of the parts, feeling extremely grateful her missing leg was in back.

Once she was done she stepped back and looked again. There were two orange engines and a blue cockpit looking thing. Attached to the cockpit were two cords. And there was a hole on each engine. Hmm. I bet they go together. She dragged the cords over and plugged them in. The engines made faint reveing noises. The 'ship' did look a little worse for wear, but it would move.

Sky walked over and jumped in the cockpit. She used the handles to launch forward and let out a roar. It was a lot faster than she'd expected it to be. Just as fast as it had started, it stopped. Sky shot right out of the cockpit the change was so great. She tried to land on her feet, but with one missing she failed. She grumbled to herself and gout up. This thing would need some new fuel if it was going to run. Well, I can probably drag it back to the town and get some. Then a new thought struck her. She realized she didn't have a clue why she was doing this. She stopped and thought about it. I don't have anything better to do. And I can move faster if I have this.

So Sky dragged the ship back into town and started refueling it. "Hey, I hope you're planning on paying for that." Someone said.

Sky turned toward it. The creature would be easy to kill, but she had been doing that a lot lately and wasn't in the mood to do so again. She sighed. "I don't have any money, maybe I can repay you another way?"

"I don't think so. You'll have to give me that pod." He replied.

Somewhere in the back of her mind Sky was thinking Oh, so that's what it's called. The rest of her mind was calculating. It would be simple to just give him the pod, but she had spent a lot of time fixing it. "No."

"Oh we'll see about that." He reached into his belt, probably to get a gun.

Sky hit him into the wall with her tail. She went over to make sure he was still alive, he was. Good. She walked back to the pod, it was now full of fuel. She hoped in and took off.

Racing around in the pod became an interesting activity for Sky. She quickly explored all there was to see in the town, so went out into the desert. There were transports out there with little creatures who had yellow glowing eyes steering them. There was also a camp full of creatures like the one she'd killed, which she found out were called sand people. And there had been a small building in the middle of nowhere with a toddler watching in amazement as she road by. She had even found a skeleton, which she had investigated to make sure it wasn't a dragon. Yes, there were plenty of strange things on this planet.

Sky had to admit she was enjoying this. There were plenty of 'things' to eat here, racing around on the pod was fun, and no one cared where you came from here. Which was good, she didn't want people prying.

Thing were like that for a while. Until the pod broke down in the middle of the desert.

(That was sort of a random chapter.)