"This is Finn's chapter which takes place around the same time as the last chapter and is pretty much a retelling of the scene where he plans to leave and bumps into Rose lets get this chapter started :)"
Chapter 28: A Plan In Motion
Finn was sitting in a room all on his own looking down at the beacon that was once on Leia's wrist and he couldnt help but wonder if Rey was alright and deep down he missed her knowing the last time he saw her was when they faced Kylo Ren on Starkiller base and now she was gone to find Luke Skywalker.
"Rey...I hope you are still alive, we need you.." Finn said to himself and then heard an explostion and he looked up at the ceiling and sighed knowing it was from The First Order's ships still in persuit.
"If she comes back here she will be in danger" Finn said to himself and looked back down at the beacon.
"If you come back like this there will be no hope" Finn looked up and knew what he had to do so he got up and went to a nearby locker and pulled out a backpack and loaded it with supplies and other equipment and even though he didnt like what he was gonna do deep down he had to ensure Rey would be safe.
Once Finn had everything he needed he left the room trying to act as casuel as possible and made his way towards the lower levels of the ship where the escape pods were and after a few brief minutes he finally made it to some stairs leading down to the pods and saw there was rows of them and as he turned a corner he saw a woman sitting down crying her eyes out while holding a pendant.
Finn wanted to see if she was ok but he would risk exposing himself and his intentions so he turned away and quickly went to the other side of the room and picked a random pod and opened the hatch leading inside but before he entered he checked his bag to make sure everything was there.
"What are you doing?" Finn jumped and looked behind him and saw the woman standing there.
"Hey..hi uh I was uh" Finn tried to say something convincing.
The woman's eyes widened "Your Finn...THE Finn".
Finn was confused "The Finn?".
The woman shook her head "Sorry..I work behind pipes all day..doing talking with Resistance but your someone else completely".
The woman then gave a small smile "I'm Rose".
Finn could see she was holding her breath "Breathe".
Rose finally breathed again "Ok..".
Finn thought Rose was adorable in a way but he had to get away without causing suspision "Look I'm not a Resistance hero but it was nice talking to you Rose" he smiled.
Rose didnt move and Finn expected her to be on her way but it didnt happen so he just smiled "May the Force be with you".
"Wow you too" Rose chuckled as he nodded back but she quickly appraoched him "But you are a hero you left The First Order and what you did on The Starkiller Base, when we heard about it my sister Paige said 'Rose thats a real hero knows right from wrong and doesnt runaway when it gets hard' she said".
Finn felt guitly cause he was pretty much running again but he cared about Rey and her safety and even though he was leaving The Resistance he believed that keeping Rey safe could help the war.
Rose then pulled out a taser and activated it and showed it to FInn and he backed up and gave a nervous chuckle "Just this morning I had to stun three people trying to abandon ship in this escape pod".
Finn knew it was going south "What.." he said in a high tone.
"They were running away" Rose explained.
"Thats disgracful" Finn stated trying to keep professional.
Rose smiled as she put the tazer away "I know".
Rose then saw the bag Finn was carrying on one of the seats in the escape pod and she frowned as Finn leaned on the side of the wall blocking her view of the bag "Anyway uh I got to get back to what I was doing".
Rose looked at him now suspisiously "What were you doing?".
Finn looked around the pods "I was check-".
"Checking the escape pods" Rose finished.
Finn nodded "Routine check".
Rose frowned "By boarding one..".
Finn then saw her look straight in his eyes as she finally figured it out "With a packed bag".
He knew he was caught so he knew lying wasnt gonna work now "Ok listen I-".
Rose pulled out her taser and shocked Finn as he spoke and he grunted in pain and the shock sent him flying into the back of the pod and his body hit the wall with force knocking him out and she quickly entered the pod to make sure he wasnt gonna run away.
A few moments past and Finn slowly woke back up to the sound of the beacon on his wrist and as his vision came back he realised he was moving but what really freaked him out was that his body was limp.
"I cant move..I cant move" Finn spoke out.
"I know" He heard Rose's voice and he managed to move his head up and looked to her.
"Where are you taking me?" Finn questioned.
Rose looked at him as she pulled him on some crate "I'm taking you to the brig and turning you in for desertion".
Finn frowned at her "I was not deserting!"
Rose stopped pulling the box and came up to him in disgust "My sister..just died protecting the fleet and you were running away".
Finn looked at her and felt terrible for her loss "I'm sorry, but this fleet is doom and if my friend comes back she's doomed too" Finn moved his hand as his body went back to normal and showed Rose the beacon.
"I got to get this as far away as possible and she will find me and be safe" Finn explained.
Rose shook her head "Your a selfish traitor".
Finn realised he left alot of things out and he sighed "No...If she is going to bring Luke Skywalker back then they need to be somewhere safe if they come here they will be dead".
Rose shook her head again and went to move him again "We cant outrun The First Order!" Finn explained.
"We can jump to lightspeed" Rose argued.
"Well they can track us through lightspeed" Finn added.
Rose stopped what she was doing and looked at him "They can track us through lightspeed?".
Finn nodded "Yeah and they will show up thirty seconds later and we would have burned a tone of fuel which we are pretty short of by the way".
"They can track us through lightspeed.." Rose said to herself.
Finn was frustrated "Yes and they can-" Finn frowned as he began moving his jaw "I cant feel my teeth..what did you shoot me with?".
Rose ignored him and was thinking things over in her head "Active tracking..".
Finn looked at Rose confused "What now?".
Rose looked at him and went to his side "Hyperspace tracking is new tech but the principle must be the same as any active tracker" Finn watched her as she explained.
"So they're only tracking us from the lead ship" They both said in unison.
Rose smiled seeing Finn knew what she was talking about but she then frowned "We cant get to the tracker they control it from the main bridge".
Finn shook his head "Well yeah but every A class process has a-".
"Dedicated power breaker" They said in unison again and Finn leaned back suprised how much this girl knew.
Rose then sat near Finn thinking again "But who knows where the breaker room is on a Star Destroyer?".
Finn looked at his hands which will still tied so he moved his body closer to Rose "Well as the guy who used to mop it...If I can get us there..".
Rose smiled "I can shut their tracker down".
Back in the medical ward of the ship Poe was sitting by a table looking at Leia as she was being treated to by C3PO and another driod and he hardly left her side after the meeting with Holdo taking command.
"I hope this woman knows what she is doing Leia, I personally dont like her" Poe said to himself and he sighed as he got up and appraoched her.
"Me and Evelyn left on bad terms..when she told me about this mission you sent her on I honestly thought you were being crazy" Poe gave a small chuckle as he looked at her sleeping.
"But you have never done anything without knowing for sure, I was angry...told Evelyn she was running away...I should have just listened to her explination, maybe I would have understand better". Poe stated quietly and soon the doors behind him opened and he saw Finn and Rose enter in quick pace.
"Whoa whats going on?" Poe frowned.
"We have something" Finn stated.
A few minutes past as Finn and Rose explained the plan to Poe but he needed to hear it one more time to be one hundred percent sure he understood.
"Ok give it to me one more time, simpler" Poe asked.
"So The First Order is tracking us from one destroyer...the one leading" Finn explained.
"So we blow that up?" Poe quessed.
Finn shook his head "I like where your heads at but no they will start tracking us from another destroyer but if we sneak on that Destroyer and disable the tracker without them realising-".
"They wont realise its offline for one system cycle, that takes six minutes" Rose finished the explination as she approached the table and pulled up a hologram of the Destroyer.
"Sneak on board, disable the tracker and our fleet escapes without them realising" Finn stated as they looked at the hologram.
"Huh.." Poe thought it over and got out of his seat and looked at Leia and then back at Finn and Rose. "How'd you two met?".
Finn looked at Rose hoping she wouldnt tell the real reason but she saw his look and gave a small smile "Just luck.".
Finn took a deep breath and looked at Poe appraoching Leia "Yeah? good luck?".
"Not sure yet" Rose stated.
Poe looked at Leia as she slept "Poe we got to do this, it will save the fleet and it will save Rey".
Poe sighed as he placed his hand on Leia's and soon C3PO came close "If I must be the solo voice of reason Admiral Holdo will never agree to this plan".
"Yeah I think your right 3PO its a need to know plan and she doesnt" Poe turned to C3PO and walked to Finn and Rose by the table "Alright you shut down that tracker I will be here to jump us to lightspeed but the question is how do we sneak the two of you onto Snoke's destroyer".
"We steal clearence code" Rose suggested.
Finn shook his head "No they get rescrambled every hour, we cant get through their security shields undetected..nobody can".
Poe sighed and then his mind clicked "Come with me!". Poe ordered as they went to the other side of the room and went to a communications terminal.
"She better still be kicking" Poe stated as he brought the system online.
A few minutes past and Poe explained the situation to his contact and finaly they had good news.
"Can I do it? of course I could do it but I cant do it I'm a little tied down right now" Maz explained as she turned around and shot her blaster and someone.
"Maz whats happening?" Finn questioned.
They saw Maz take cover from fire "Union dispute you do not want to hear about it" she explained as a blaster shot went right past her and she returned fire.
"But lucky for you there is exactly one guy I trust that can crack that kind of security" Maz explained and she moved to better cover.
"He's a master codebreaker, an ace pilot, a poeit with a blaster" she stated as she killed someone off in the distance.
"Oh my it sounds like this code breaker can do anything" C3PO stated as he watched on.
"Oh yes he can you'll will find him with a red plum bloom on his lapels, rolling at a high stakes table..in the casino on Candobite" Maz said as she reloaded her weapon.
Poe sighed "Candobite...Maz is there anyway we can do this ourselves?".
Maz activated nightvison on her goggles and scanned the area around her "Sorry kiddo this is rarefied cracking you want to get on that Destroyer I only know one option, find the Master Codebreaker".
Maz activated her jetpack and flew off and the signal disconnected.
Poe sighed knowing this was gonna be a pain but she was right they had no choice and Finn knew this too and he knew this mission was gonna be dangerous and Rose knew it too when they looked at eachother.
Finn looked down at his wrist with the beacon attatched to it and he slowly removed it and looked at his friend.
"Poe" Finn called and his friend looked at him.
Finn brought the beacon up to Poe "To light her way home".
Poe looked at it then and Finn knowing the chances of survival would be slim but he was gonna honour his friend's request and she slowly took it and the two friends hugged.
"Good luck Finn" Poe supported.
"May the Force be with you" Finn responded and soon they let go of eachother and Finn left the room and Rose followed him leaving Poe alone and he looked at Leia again.
"We wont fail you General" Poe took a long look at Leia and then left the room.
"There may still be hope for The Resistance! hope u enjoyed this chapter cause I loved writing it lol next chapter will be a Evelyn/Rey chapter and will also feature the Bounty Hunter Jaylah and will explore why she recognised Han Solo's weapon which Evelyn inherited I have a very interesting plot coming up for Javik as well ;)
