"You're such a dumbass, Dameron!"
"Who asked you!?"
"The whole Resistance apparently!"
"Who's the Commander and who's the Lieutenant, Solo!?"
A Resistance messenger ran past the two quarreling Resistance leaders.
"Do we need to stop them again, General?" Kaydel, a lower ranking officer, asked with minimal concern.
"No.. No... I'll let them tire themselves out," General Leia Organa said with a sigh.
"I could pilot better than you! I'm just better as a ground fighter instead!" Kira Solo shouted back at the male in front of her.
"You wish! You couldn't fly out of a paper bag," taunted Poe Dameron.
"You just watch. When I get my hands on the Falcon, I'll be flying circles around you," retorted Kira.
General Leia had enough of their fighting. She knew that once Kira mentioned the Falcon that they would be there all day.
"Commander. Lieutenant. I need you two to come to my private office now," Leia ordered.
"Now you've done it," hissed Kira.
"Me! It was you!" Poe whispered back.
"It was the both of you. Now come on," Leia said impatiently. Their fighting was grating on her nerves now.
The younger woman followed after her mother. Most people said that Kira looked like her mother, but from the old holograms she dug up, she knew she looked more like Padmé Amidale, former Queen and Senator of Naboo and her maternal grandmother. Unlike her mother, she preferred to wear her dusty brown hair down or in a plain braid. She wore dark green leggings with a tight cream colored shirt. She had an X crossed brown belt with duel blasters on each side. Her vibro blade was strapped to her left thigh. She had brown hiker like boats for every type of environmental situation. She wore an old vintage rebel issued jacket to top off her ensamble. Ironically Poe Dameron was wearing a similar vintage rebel jacket.
Poe closed the door behind him when he entered the room that the two women were in.
"What do you need, General?" he asked the older woman.
"For you two to stop fighting," Leia mumbled under her breath.
Kira looked at her for the next orders.
"Commander Dameron, I have a special mission for you. It is of the utmost importance and secrecy," Leia said before turning to her daughter, "Lieutenant, I need you to go as ground forces after him should something go wrong."
"What is it?" Poe asked suspiciously. He'd just gotten back from a mission yesterday, and he hadn't been alerted to any immediate threats.
"I got a message from an old friend. He says he has a clue to Jedi Master Luke Skywalker, and he might be our only hope," Leia revealed.
"Uncle Luke? Why do we need him? He ditched us," Kira scoffed.
"Don't underestimate the power of the Jedi," Leia tried to tell her again.
No matter how much they talked about it. Kira just wasn't buying into the whole Force thing. Sure, she believed that it was real and that people could manipulate with it. She just thought people put too much stock into it. The war between Sith and Jedi was the cause of all this to begin with even from the very beginning.
"Fine. we'll go find Uncle Luke under some rock somewhere, and you can tell him 'Help us Obi Wan Kenobi. You're our only hope' and he'll quit whatever he's doing to come save us. Flying in like some white knight," Kira mocked.
"Kira, please. He really might be our only hope right now," Leia said. Her voice strained for a moment.
"Just tell us the mission, ma'am," Poe piped in.
He also didn't want to be in between the two quarreling family members, so he was gonna step in before they started fighting.
"You're flying to Jakku to meet an old friend named Lor San Tekka. He'll give you the clue or whatever it is, and you are to come straight back here. Nobody else is to know that you're gone," Leia said.
"Of course, General," Poe dutifully replied.
"And you," Leia turned to her daughter, "Take one of smaller ships and fly down after him. Make sure that nothing interferes with this plan. I sense that the Sith are also after this clue as well."
"Right, General."
Leaving the private room, all three of them heard alarm sounds from the main navigation hull. Kira ran past them to see what was going on.
"We're hearing you, Blue Leader. The enemy's right on your tail," Captain Morgs, Blue Leader's Lead Captain, said on his com.
Apparently Blue Leader come back from a scouting mission with some First Order Tie Fighter on their tail, and it was coming in hot.
"I can't shake them," Blue Leader worriedly said.
Kira ran over and pushed Captain Morgs out of the way.
"Blue Leader, this is Kira. Are you hearing me?" she said through the com.
"Kira! Yes, I'm hearing you!" Blue Leader replied.
"Do as I say. Make a straight nose dive then turn back up into a 360 turn. That'll shake the gun off your tail," she ordered.
Kaydel turned on a screen so that they could see what was happening.
"Kaydel, get me a gun online and pointed outward. Route it back here in the nav room," she ordered.
"Yes, ma'am."
They all watched as Blue Leader dived his X-wing to avoid some gunner hits before coming back up around to the Tie Fighter's back, which rolled out of the way. Blue Leader swooped around again as well to get out of it's firing range.
"Gun online, Kira!" Kaydel alerted her, "Button's next to you!"
"Now Blue Leader... Full thrusters at our ship! Left downward gun. It's the only one lit. You can't miss it," Kira told him.
"But-," Blue Leader tried.
"Don't you trust your allies? Full thrusters at our ship!"
They all watched as Blue Leader gunned towards them at full speed. Luckily for her the Tie Fighter took the bait and was following their X-wing.
"Solo! Tell him to pull up!" Poe shouted at her as the X-wing got closer. He knew he could make the jump, but Blue Leader?
The X-wing got so much closer to them. Kira closed her eyes and could almost feel the heat of the engines as it barreled to towards the larger Resistance ship.
"Solo!"
Kira opened her eyes.
"Pull up! Blue! Now! Full 90!" she ordered.
Blue Leader pulled up at the last minute. It was so close that the edge of his X-wing touched the gun.
Kira pushed the button and blasted straight through the Tie Fighter who had slowed down in front of the gun.
The whole let out a sigh of relief.
"You doing okay, Blue?" she cockily asked.
"Too close, Kira!" he shouted through the com.
"You're still in one piece. You're fine," Kira snapped her finger, "You're cleared for landing."
"On my way," Blue Leader sighed as he flew back in.
"You were way out of line, Solo!" Captain Morgs shouted at her, "That was too risky of a move!"
"Blue's fine. Tie Fighter's dead. We're good to go," she replied as she tried to walk away.
"You're not talking your way out of this one, Solo. If I was the General, I'd have you grounded for two weeks," Captain Morgs said.
"I haven't been in the sky for weeks, Capt. I think you don't know what you're talking about," she mocked.
"Lieutenant Solo, you're grounded, and Commander Dameron will be escorting you to your room," General Leia ordered.
Kira gave an eye roll. Sure they were going on a secret mission, but did her mom really have to humiliate her too. She was 22 for Jedi's sake. She didn't have to ground her.
"Right away, General," Poe said a bit too gleefully as he escorted Kira out of the room.
Poe led her away to a far wing of the ship where they kept the extra X-wings. It was full of the oldest models from the previous war. Some of them worked, and some were just there for the parts.
"You really did it this time, Solo."
"Of course I did. That's the number one phrase of my life," she groaned.
"Here. This one works," Poe directed her to an older X-wing.
"Thanks Dameron," Kira said as she climbed in.
"See you on the other side Solo," Poe said with a cocky wink.
Kira started up her X-wing and took off. Once she was far enough in the air, she heard some small beeping sounds.
"Woh! What's that? Who's there?" she asked.
"Beep! Beep!" A small droid peeked out from under the seat.
"Oh! Who are you?"
"Beep! D4!" it beeped out.
Kira looked down for a moment to see a small gray and blue cone headed droid with a dark gray wheel like body.
"Why hadn't you come out before D4? We would have welcomed you," Kira told it warmly.
She loved droids... well most droids. C-3PO was annoying, but somehow she loved him as well. He'd been in her family since forever. He was sorta grandfathered in from her perspective. He was like some strange over talking uncle.
"Come on up," she told him.
D4 climbed onto her lap. He was quite heavy.
"Maybe to the next seat," she suggested.
D4 somehow climbed up and plopped himself in the seat behind her.
"Beep! Beep!" D4 said excitedly.
"Now to light speed!" Kira said with a laugh as she pushed on to Jakku.
A few hours later, Kira had landed on Jakku. She got out and overlooked her new surrounds. There was nothing but sand. This was worse than Tattoine she surmised because at least Tattoine had the Sand People and Sarlacc Pitts to worry about. This was nothing but sand and more sand. Oh how she hated sand. It got in her boots and made her eyes water. Living out here must be hell. No wonder Lor San Tekka came out here.
Kira took her new droid out to see whatever there must have been out here. Poe was supposed to be here first, but since she gave a fabulous reason to be kicked off the nav floor, she made it first.
"Come on D4. Let's go," she ushered.
D4 climbed out of the X-wing and rolled out after her. He even let out a few cheerful beeps as he did so.
Kira had hidden the X-wing behind some rocks as best as she could. Since it was an older model, it wasn't as at risk of being called out for a Resistance ship, but she wasn't taking the risk. See mom, I can be cautious when I need to.
Kira and D4 made their way to the closest town, er village. She found a seat and watched the locals do their thing. She figured it would be best to figure out how the locals acted to blend in.
Hearing some rattling, she looked over to see a human figure carrying some objects around. Must be a scavenger she figured. That was a pretty common profession among these parts. Planets like these were on the fringes of society. Even with two, er three wars happening they somehow remained untouched and unchanged.
She wondered if Commander Dameron had made it to Jakku yet. The main members of the Resistance were traveling back to their ground base from a recon mission to some of their allies. Kira had been able to tag along thanks to her mother being the General otherwise she probably would have been grounded there too.
She wasn't that high up on the command chain even though she was one of their best recruits. Her mom wasn't so quick to promote her in case of someone accusing them of favoritism which would have been a joke of course. She didn't need her parents' statuses to get her to the top of the command chain of the Resistance. She had grown up in this war. She was more than accustomed to what it took to get around.
She was 22 and already a Lieutenant in the Resistance. A position that she did in fact earn to the discouragement of her mother. General Leia had actually argued against promoting her. Yeah that had been the best meeting she had ever been in. If it wasn't for Admiral Ackbar, she would still be running in ground ops as a foot soldier.
That was another thing. She should be a pilot. She'd certainly be a better one than Poe *cough* arrogant *cough* Dameron. He was one cocky hot shot flyboy. He was the "poster child" of the Resistance. She had first gone into the Resistance as a pilot, but was soon grounded due to her inability to take orders or was it her reckless and callus flying. She couldn't tell you now.
As the planet got darker, she figured it was time to make her move. She made her way to where Lor San Tekka's hut was. When she got there, it was fully dark outside. She hid behind some rocks in the distance before taking out some special binocular like objects. She put them to her eyes and saw two figures talking in the hut. One of them was Commander Dameron, so the other one must be Lor San Tekka. She saw the older man give Poe a sack which she figured was the object in question that her mother wanted them to retrieve.
"Beep! Beep! Beep!" D4 beeped frantically.
"What is it D4?"
Kira turned head around and tried to see what her new droid was beeping about now. Then she heard the roar of a familiar sounding engine. She looked up to see a First Order ship coming in hot in the distance. It was still farther out, but it was so much closer than for her comfort which meant it was definitely landing now.
"Oh no... That's so not good," she muttered.
She looked down to see if Poe was still talking to Lor San, and of course he was. Boys could be such gossips sometimes.
"D4, go down there and alert a BB-8 droid that the enemy's coming."
D4 rolled his tiny body down to where the old man's hut was. By this time however the Stormtroopers were already invading nearby villages.
Kira was itching to take her blaster out and go help those people, but even she knew that there was a bigger prize at stake. She may be her father's daughter, but she was also her mother's daughter too. She wouldn't let this go. Those monsters would pay for this, and by pay, she meant obliterated by the Resistance.
D4 had alerted BB-8, and Kira could see that Poe and his droid were making their way to his X-wing. Suddenly Poe's X-wing takes some fire. Apparently the enemy was here now, and her poor droid was rolling around in the middle of that trying to get back to her.
Kira takes out a rifle shaped blaster and aims towards her fellow Resistance fighters. She shoots a few troopers down that were getting a little to close to her comrades. By this time, Poe's got the X-wing's blaster running, and he's shooting down troopers as well.
From her position, she can see that this is not going at all well. Poe's X-wing is taking some serious damage. If he can get a clear spot, he could meet up with her and take her X-wing instead. Kira slowly moves downward to try and see if she can reach them.
Poor D4 is rolling around back and forth around all those Stormtroopers. He's trying to get back to his new master, but he has to avoid all these strange and terrible people. Eventually he makes it to where BB-8 is located for now.
"You take this. It's safer with you
than it is with me. You get as far away from here as you can. Find Kira. Do you hear me?" Poe orders BB-8 as he sticks a chip into its holder.
"Beep! Beep!" BB-8 protests.
"I'll come back for you! It will be alright," Poe tries to convince his droid.
Kira makes her way down the area where the fighting is mainly taking place. She hides behind one of the damaged huts and fires away. She has to give her boys a clear way to get out of there.
Poe's run back to the fray. Now he's trying to give BB-8 an opening to get out. It's so strange how two minds can think so much alike.
Kira can feel her whole body stiffen up when she feels a figure come out of the First Order ship. She doesn't have to wonder who it is. There's only one person in the whole galaxy who gives off this kind aura. She inwardly groans. Of course he would be here.
She can hear Lor San and Kylo Ren, the newest Sith, talking.
"Look how old you've become," Kylo Ren speaks.
"Something far worse has happened to you," Lor San replies knowingly.
Kira turns her head to see, to her surprise, that Poe has edged even closer to the fray. That must mean he send BB-8 out of the way. Something must be seriously wrong with his ship then.
"You know what I've come for," Kylo Ren says knowingly as well.
"I know where you come from. Before you called yourself Kylo Ren," Lor San told him.
"The map to Skywalker. We know you've
found it, and now you're going to give it to the First Order," Kylo Ren ordered.
Kira watches Poe get even closer.
"The First Order rose from the dark
side... you did not," Lor San acknowledged.
"I'll show you the dark side," Kylo Ren ground out angrily.
"You may try, but you cannot deny the
truth that is your family," Lor San digged one last time.
Kira could hear the familiar buzz of a lightsaber before she heard the thump of the body below.
"You're so right," mocked the Sith.
Poe couldn't keep waiting anymore. He leveled his higher level blaster and fired at the Sith.
"Poe. No," Kira whispered as she knew that Kylo Ren had stopped the blaster bullet from hitting himself.
She peeked over to see Poe frozen by the Force. Some Stormtroopers grab him and drag him over to Kylo Ren. They force Poe to his knees in front of the masked Sith.
"So who talks first? You talk first? I talk first?" rambles Poe.
"The old man gave it to you," accused Kylo Ren.
"It's just very hard to understand you with all the apparatus," Poe continued to ramble.
The troopers continue to search Poe but come up short.
"Nothing, sir," one of the troopers report.
"Put him on board," Kylo Ren orders.
Kira watches as they start to drag her comrade aboard their ship. She debated whether it was better to go after him or not.
"All frick this, I'm going after the fool," she muttered.
"On my command! Fire!" Captain Phasma, leader of the Stormtroopers, ordered.
The wall she was hiding behind explodes and sends her careening into the sand behind her. The debris knocks her unconscious, and she blacks out.