Poe slowed his speeder over the wispy sand. Hux caught his motion and pulled to a stop beside him, "Problem...again?" He asked, his clipped accent prominent.

"I could have sworn it was this way," Poe's voice drifted off as he gazed into the open desert, not a single sign of life in view.

Poe looked down at the instrument panel of his speeder, he was dangerously low on fuel.

"I have to head back to the village, I need fuel unless the Force is going to carry me farther." His voice was full of despair.

Hux scoffed, "There is no such thing as the Force."

"Of course the Force is real." Poe's eyes grew wide as he took in Hux and Phasma, he was irritated once again that he couldn't read the woman's expression through her chrome helmet.

"Look, are you sure Rey isn't back at that AT-AT you two call home waiting with your dinner?" Hux groaned.

"I told you over and over, she has been captured by a beast!" Poe was shouting then, his frustration unable to be contained.

"Shut up, you fool." Hux waved his hand at him dismissively, distracted by the sand on his uniform.

"Why did you agree to help me?" Poe asked, surveying the general again, eyes suddenly awakening to the man's true nature.

"Because, I want to marry your roommate!" Hux shouted, suddenly annoyed.

Poe shook his head, "Rey will never marry you." His voice was dark, he was sure about Hux then.

Hux dismounted his speeder and crossed the width of sand between them reaching for Poe by the collar of his shirt. He dragged Poe from the speeder by brute force and slugged him across the jaw before Poe could react.

"Hey!" Poe shouted raising his arm protectively in front of his face before another blow could reach him. He scrambled to his feet, ready to fight.

Hux raised his blaster, "I will marry Rey."

Poe's eyes grew wide as he raised his hands in surrender.

Phasma stepped closer to him, "General, we're wasting time here."

Hux nodded and regretfully holstered his blaster. He swung a leg over his speeder but as he turned the handles to engage the engine nothing happened.

"What is this?" Hux shouted. His eyes were bugging out more than they usually did from his impossibly pale face.

Phasma strode to his side, "It seems you are out of fuel." Hux jumped off the speeder and angrily kicked a cloudy of sand into it.

"Fine," he growled.

Poe jumped to his feet as he realized what Hux intended to do.

"No, you can't!" He yelled at the red haired man but the blaster was already pointed back in his face.

"Poe, I'm sorry we couldn't work something out, for Rey's sake anyway." Hux scoffed once and then he was gone, flying over the desert on Poe's speeder, Phasma following dutifully behind him, not even bothering to glance back.

Poe looked out into the open desert. There was a tiny hut in the distance. He didn't know if he could make it on foot in the heat, but he didn't have another option.

Hours seemed to pass as Poe trudged toward the small hut, once or twice he even began to wonder if it was a mirage. A buzzing sound caught his ear, quiet at first. Distant.

The sound grew steadily louder until he realized it was a speeder. Poe spun in the sand in the direction of the noise.

A man dressed in robes like a Jedi was gliding toward him.

Poe dropped to his knees. If the man was a trader he would offer whatever the man wanted in order to gain passage to habitable land. A scavenger would also be an easy negotiation. Anything more savage than that would pose a problem.

The speeder pulled in close to Poe.

Slowly, the man lifted his hood back, away from his face. Poe noticed the light glimmering off the man's one mechanical hand.