The Gift That Keeps On Giving
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Rey awoke to Chewy frantically roaring and running past the bunks. Not missing a beat she jumped up and followed him into the cockpit. "Great, the First Order found us." Rey grumbled. From what her companion was trying to tell her those bounty hunters must have snuck a tracker on the falcon at some point during their brawl on Takodana.
"Looks like we won't be home in time for dinner Chewy!"
A string of growls is all the reply the young Jedi received. They still had a few hours until they were at the base, but the pair knew that they couldn't go any closer to their destination until they were able to lose the First Order. Taking another hit, Rey motions the wookie to take full control and runs to one of the gunners. Putting on a communication head set and aiming at the attacking space craft, she starts wishing that were more bodies on board to help out.
Leia was starting to worry about Rey and Chewbacca. They were supposed to be back at the base a week ago and now this. She had gotten a short transmission from the young girl saying that they had gotten into an altercation and had to wait a little while before coming back. The moment she saw the millennium falcon depart the hanger she had a wave of worry wash over her. The mission was too important to call them back in over a feeling, even though.
Letting out a sigh Leia turned towards the approaching footsteps of the two young men she had called for. They were talking about trivial things and laughing about something that she really wasn't interested in asking about. When they reached her their talking ceased and their features instantly became straight faced.
"I'm glad you two could finally make it. Poe, Finn, there has been a complication with the Millennium falcon's return."
Poe's body stilled. Finn was the first one to speak. "Are they okay? What is the complication?" Finn could feel the anticipation coming off of his friend. He knew that the pilot had feelings for their Jedi friend and he knew that she would return those feelings if Poe would just tell her how he felt.
Eyeing the two, the general responds with a small shake of her head. "I believe that they are fine but they won't be for long unless they get some help soon." She turns away, walking over to the table in the center of the room. "They had a little run in with the First Order. Rey and Chewy tried their best to fend them off but one of their engines blew and they had to make an emergency crash landing. If they had all the parts they need it will take them a while for them to fix it. Unfortunately they do not have all the parts they need. They are being hunted and I'm afraid that they won't make it off the planet unless we sent help."
Joining their general around the table Poe's brows furrowed. "What do you want us to do?" Finn leaned forward and clamped his hand together and rested his chin on them. "Yeah, you didn't call us here just to tell us that our friends are goners. What can we do to help?" Finn said following up Poe's question.
"I need you to find them and bring them the parts that they are going to need." Leia raises a thin eye brow. "Time is of the essence boys, you better hurry before I send someone else instead." With that warning the two jumped up and headed to the door before being stopped. "Please bring them home safe."
"Is that everything?" Poe asks his friend. Finn nods his head and jumps into the seat behind him. "Yup that's it; I just hope we get there before anyone else does. What planet did they land on anyway?"
Lifting the x-wing into the air and giving BB-8 a thumb up, he responds. "Hoth, Hope you brought your coat."
"I know Chewy, but you have to remember! Leia said that there is an old rebel alliance base somewhere near these coordinates. She said that you were there and that you would know where to go!" Rey was at her wits end. The millennium falcon just basically got shot out of the sky and crash landed on a planet that was so cold that she instantly wished she was back on Jakku.
Leia told her that help was on the way but she needed to find the old rebel alliance base to see if she could find anything that could help them in the meantime. The coordinates she gave them wasn't too far away but everything was buried in snow and Chewy, who had actually been there before, forgot where it was. His reasoning was that it happened so long ago that it was as if he was a different person.
That's how the two ended up in the middle of nowhere looking for any remains of life. So far there was nothing. No animals, no humans. She could see why. Even if someone tried and wanted to live on this ball of snow and ice there was no way that they would make it a week without freezing to death.
Chewy made a rolling roar and kicked a large mound, resulting in a wall of snow to fall down revealing a metal door. "Way to go Chewbacca! Now we just have to figure out how to get the doors open." Pressing her hands together to regain some warmth in her fingers, she searches for a keypad of some kind. The only coat she could find wasn't really suitable for this weather but it was better than nothing. She needed to get out of the cold and warm up before she starts to lose her digits.
Brushing away the snow around the edges of the doors some buttons appear. "I don't think these are going to work, they are completely frozen. Do you mind?" Rey backs away from her companion and let him shoot the panel with his blaster. It takes a minute but the doors start to crack the thick layer of ice that covers them and rumbles open with a low grinding sound. "You know they really should have invested a little more time into their security system. Not like it matters now but that was way too easy." With an agreeing nod the two start there scavenging of the remains of the old base.
They were able to find some parts but not enough to get everything fixed. Rey also discovered a small heater that, with a little tweaking, started up like new. Deeming that it was warm enough to take off her coat long enough to check out her side, she reached for some bandages that were left in the medical bay. It doesn't look like it will leave a permanent scar. She was getting really tired of it reopening. Once she got back to the resistance base the first thing that she is going to do is march her butt to the medical bay and insist that they fix her right up.
A tall figure walked slouched its way into the room. "Chewy are we ready to go? This place is starting to give me an unsettling feeling." Not looking up, Rey waited for a retort of some kind but it never came. "Chewy? Chewy since when are you at a loss for wor-." The rest of her sentence got stuck in her throat when she looked up and didn't see her favorite wookie. Instead she found a very tall wampa. "Chewy!"
Rey reached for her lightsaber but wasn't fast enough and got flung against a nearby wall. I can't catch a break, can I? She thought as she stood up gathering all her strength she could and launching herself at the white beast.
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