"Can you see them?"
"No..."
Rey gestured to Kyle and Reyna after their sudden daze look on their faces and the group began to silently crawl, making sure not to make a sound. Up above, Benji was slowly getting agitated "I heard you also borrowed fifty thousand from Kanjiklub" Bala-Tik added and Benji looked at Han with a raised brow.
"You know you can't trust those little freaks! How long have we known each other?" Han said "Long enough for him to turn his back on you..." Benji whispered, another pinch in the arm. Kyle squinted his eyes "They have blasters. A lot of them, we need to be careful if a fight ensures" Finn glanced back at Reyna "Is your brother always this pessimistic?"
"Only when the situation calls it and we rarely even agree on anything"
Meanwhile back up, Benji, Chewie and Han compressed against each other as Bala-Tik continued to talk "The question is how much longer will we know each other?" Han opened his mouth to answer but Bala-Tik cuts him off "Not long. We want our money back now" Benji decided to intervene, shoving Han Solo behind him.
"You can't demand an old man to hand over the money right now. He spent all that from capturing Rathtars? You think they were cheap?" Han gripped Benji arm tightly. Okay, first off he may not be in his prime any longer but he was NOT old?! Second, since when did this kid stopped listening to orders? Pity the family who had him.
"Kanjiklub wants their investment back, too" That was when Han spoke up.
"I never made a deal with Kanjiklub!"
Bala-Tik grinned "Tell that to Kanjiklub" There was another sound at the other end of the corridor and Benji never saw Han's face turn very white until now when realization hit them that they were surrounded on both sides.
This was not how I thought this day was gonna end.
Benjamin groaned, feeling an oncoming headache "Tasu Leech. Good to see you!" Han says casually and Benji had to applaud his grandfather still trying to play it off even though the game was almost up. "Wrong again, Solo. It's over for you" Tasu Leech said, cocking his weapon, wanting bloodshed. BB-8 wished it was with Rey and Finn, safe from all the blasters aimed at the group.
"Boys. You're both gonna get what I promised! Have I ever not delivered for you before?"
"Yeah!"
"Twice!" Bala-Tik and Tasu Leech answered and Benji snorted "What was the second time?" Bala- Tik scoffed "Your game is old. There is no one in the galaxy left for you to swindle"
"Nowhere left for you to hide" Tasu Leech added. BB-8 rolled slightly out of the protective stance to get a closer look only for Bala-Tik to spot the BB unit "That BB unit. The First Order is looking for one just like it. And fugitives" Underneath, Rey and Finn halted and looked at each other in a panic.
Reyna wanted to smack herself. She almost forgot how efficient their father was when searching for something he wanted or needed to get. BB-8 quickly hid behind Han as the smuggler realizes how in deep trouble the kids really were.
Kyle and Reyna quickly crawled in the opposite direction "Where are you going?" Rey asked "Doing something stupid. Keep going and don't let them see you" Kyle said before he and Reyna crawled to where they believed it was the Junction Box Area from below.
"Mom told us about this before. Try caging both gangs" Reyna said and Kyle grinned "Oops.." Kyle said when he not so accidentally reset the fuses of the doors that kept the Rathtars in. Reyna looked at Kyle with a blank look "What did you just do?"
"I reset the fuses" Kyle said nonchalantly. Reyna glared at him and let out a frustrated noise before crawling back to where Finn and Rey was. From above, Han heard the sound of doors opening and the Rathtars roaring "I've got a bad feeling about this" Han mumbled and Benji felt himself twitch.
Whatever happened, he'd point the blame to Kyle.
"Kill them! And take the droid!" Benji placed himself in between Han as they took aim when one of the Rathtars came up from behind them and took them by surprise. The same thing happened on the other gang. Chewie let out a roar just as Benji screamed "Run!"
They ran down the hall with a Rathtar right behind them. A kanjiklub member appeared around the corner and Han quickly punched the man, disorienting him before he could react and threw him towards the Rathtar. Benji pulled out one of his blasters and shot a tentacle that was too close to Chewie and the wookie let out a grateful roar before the proceeded to run to where the Millennium Falcon was docked.
Below, Reyna caught up with Rey and Finn with Kyle right behind her. The screams of both gangs rang in their ears as flashes of blasters engaged flashed right above them "How did this happen?" Rey asked loudly through all the screaming. "Blame my brother on this!" Reyna answered and Finn looked back at the grin forming on Kyle's face.
"I don't know if I want to hit you in the face or start yelling at you for this huge mistake!"
"Where's the fun in that?" Kyle's calm facade broke when he went full on grinning and Rey had to gape at the sudden boyish look on his face. He looked so young and less mature than before when he was quiet and calculative. Reyna grumbled something about big brothers and their ideas of fun when they came across a hatch of a different sector of the freighter.
Rey poked her head out, making sure the area was secured before climbing out with Finn and the Siblings after her. They ran to a corridor with Kyle in the lead "We need to reach the Falcon, I suspect Han would be there" Kyle said to the group. They evaded the places where the shouts and blasters are coming from, knowing Rathtars are probably nearby and without weapons and Reyna avoiding the crowd to know she was carrying a lightsaber, they practically defenseless.
"What do Rathtars look like?" Rey asked suddenly and it was just around that time they passed by a corridor that house a Rathtar that was swallowing up ever gang member on sight, barely flinching from the blaster fires. Rey covered her mouth in disgust while Reyna and Kyle felt their stomachs hurl.
"They look like that" Finn said, grabbing Rey's hand and sprinting to another corridor "We need to split up. Too big of a crowd is an easy buffet for the Rathtars. We'll meet you on the Falcon!" Reyna shouted before she and Kyle ran to another corridor. Rey skidded to a stop and was about to yell at them to come back when she felt Finn tug at her hand.
"They'll be fine. They can handle themselves" Finn said. A part of Rey wanted to follow Finn knowing Reyna and Kyle were grown enough to defend themselves and they've proven it through their escape from Jakku but a deeper part of her wanted to make sure they were safe and secure in her watch.
Rey decided to follow Finn's word a little hesitantly, looking back as if wanting to turn and race back to where Reyna and Kyle left.
Reyna and Kyle glared at the oncoming Rathtar "All clear" Kyle said as Reyna took out her double bladed lightsaber and sliced any nearby tentacles. The Rathtar screeched, sensing danger and slithered away. Kyle force pushed any gang member standing in their way and if they even raised a blaster in their direction, Reyna made sure their lives ended quick and painless.
They arrived to see Han blast a gang member straight in the chest as the turned to a corner. Benji barely missed Kyle's head by the inches, slightly singeing his hair "Hey!" Kyle growled and Benji shrugged, both hands moving away from each other, a shrug which was dubbed as the 'Solo Shrug' by a certain ace pilot's son named Dameron. "A warning would've helped" Kyle felt his eye twitch.
"Come on! Come on!" Han shouted when he promptly blasted the controls of the door that separated them from the Falcon. "I'll take care of Chewie!" Benji said as he let Chewie leaned on him, not bothering of the added weight. Chewie let out a grateful roar, despite how...non-fatal the wound looked.
Rey and Finn soon arrived with Finn smelling like he had gone through the Imperial trash compactor twice then had a dip in one of Kashyyyk's smelliest swamps. "What happened to you?" Benji asked and Finn grimaced "You don't wanna know" Benji gave Finn a once-over before deciding to take his word for it.
Kyle quickly closed the door behind him as Han immediately headed straight to the cockpit, hitting switches on the navicomputer with Rey following behind him to Chewie's seat "Where are you going?" Han asked as Rey started hitting switches as well.
"Unkar Plutt installed a fuel pump too. If we don't get that primed we're not going anywhere" Rey explained. It was bad enough for Unkar Plutt to install a compressor on the ignition line but to add a fuel pump too?!
"I hate that guy..." Han growled. Noting to head back to Jakku after this problem is done to give him a piece of his mind. "And you could use a co-pilot?" Rey asked and Han scoffed "I got one, he's back there" Chewie let out a roar of pain as Finn searched for any bandages or anything to patch up the bleeding wound.
"We need to get out of here using lightspeed right now if we have any chance of surviving another day!" Benji shouted, rummaging through the junk Finn was making. Chewie let out a surprised roar at Benji's remark as did Rey and Finn but not Han and the Solo Siblings "But jumping at lightspeed from inside the hanger, is that even possible?" Rey asked incredulously.
"I never asked that question until after I've done it" Han said simply before their vision is met by rows of sharp teeth as a Rathtar chewed onto the windshield, wanting to devour the people inside. "I'm barely 15 and I'm already stressed out..." Benji growled before he grasped the bandages "I got it Finn!"
"Hang on back there!" Han suddenly shouted. Kyle and Reyna quickly went to the cockpit, making sure they weren't spotted and force pushed the Rathtar out of the way. "Come on baby, don't let me down" Han mumbles as he flipped a switch only for the Millennium Falcon to jolt and slowly shut down its engines. Han looked at the switches in front of him in bewilderment.
"What...?"
That moment, Benji quickly appeared in between the seats and reaches over a switch and pressed it. "Compressor" Benji said plainly. Han grumbled, feeling slightly intrigued by this kid who looks no older than a teenager yet already knew the inner workings of a ship. "You a mechanic kid?" Han asked. Benji looked away "You could say that..."
The ship's hyperdrive suddenly fires and the occupants of the ship felt themselves jolt back at they quickly went into lightspeed with the attacking gang members blasted away like dry leaves on a stormy wind. Benji stumbled back only for Kyle to steady him "I'm gonna go and check up on Chewie and Finn" He mumbled, knowing that Finn had never even attended to a wookie, not even once.
"Wahoo!" Benji shouts for joy when Reyna shouted they cleared off, unknowingly drawing the attention of a hundred year old Chewbacca who stared at him for a few moments.
Now where had he heard a similar yell like that?
His gaze shifted to the cockpit before shaking his head. It couldn't be...
A sharp pain on his arm made the wookie turn his attention to the young man trying to put the bandage around him. What to do with this human? Let him lose a limb or just toss him to the airlock?
