"Woooooo! This is AWESOMEEEE!" Neji cheers, making her ship go in swirls and extraordinary pathways. She made her ship make a heart, star and cloud as she rides in it. She soon stops though, once she was out of hyperspace. "Okay, according to the coordinates I took, Mars should be around...here. Gotcha." She sets the ship on landing mode and pushes the lever down. But then, she grimaces. "Maybe a bit too early, I'm not even at good landing range for Mars; let me see if I can-woah, WHAT?!" All of a sudden, the power shuts off! Neji curses under her breath and starts to panic. "What did I do? What did I do? What did I doooo?" She looks around and finally sees the source of her problem.
The ship is out of fuel, she forgot to fuel it before she left.
The backup fuel source is not enough for getting close to Mars and making a good landing.
Shit.
Neji shrugs and lays back in her seat when she feels the ship falling down at a recklessly fast rate, closing her eyes. "Well, at least I had some good moments in my miserable life. Especially in my much younger years when my family was alive and well. I only wish that I could've talked to Kairo one last time." She closes her eyes and relaxes, letting her body eventually fall into a deep sleep.
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Neji suddenly sits up, alarmed at a semi-cool breeze brushing her body. She looks down and sees that she is in a light pink gown, and her hair has been tied up and braided all the way down her body. Probably meant that her weapons and armor are gone. But where the hell is she? It looks like a bigger ship. Neji sees some slippers nearby and decides to borrow them for a while, slipping them onto her feet.
She slowly plants her feet firmly on the ground and stands up. She turns to walk towards the door of the cockpit, but before she could do so, a voice calls out to her. "Hello there, I see you're awake. You're Neji Ashanti, right? I believe we met before." Neji turns around and her eyes widen. They indeed have met before, this is the young man who is called Luke! "Hello, I definitely remember you. Not sure what happened since I was obviously out of it, but thank you so much for taking me in!" Luke smiles and waves it off, "The person you should actually thank is the guy in that cockpit room you were about to go in. His name is Han Solo. Warning, he is sometimes a bit rough on the edges. But he's overall a pretty cool guy. The Wookiee usually next to him is the lovable Chewbacca." Neji nods her head.
She turns to face the door again and knocks. She immediately hears a grumbling voice coming towards the door, yelling for 'Chewie' to monitor the ship for a sec. The door opens and a slightly older male with brown hair pops his head out with a glare, until his eyes spots Neji. "Oh, welcome back to the world of the living, kid. You lucky that blondie over there has the Force with him. He sensed your presence and directed me to where you were in your ship. He's the real hero. Don't let him tell ya otherwise. He is too humble for his own good." He awkwardly waves goodbye and goes back into the cockpit, door closing shit behind him.
Luke chuckles and shakes his head, "He's the one who is too humble for his own good." He mumbles under his breath. Leia emerges from the back of the ship and smiles when she spots Neji. "Why, hello there. I'm glad you're awake and well. Apologies for the clothes, me and Luke wanted you to be comfortable. Don't worry though, I'm the one who did the wardrobe change." She ends with a light chuckle.
Neji thanks her, and Leia walks a bit closer, holding her hand. "Of course, dear. Do you have any family to go back to? We can take you there." Neji thinks about Kairo and her dead blood relatives. She then looks at Leia and shakes her head 'no.' "I support myself as a bounty hunter and assassin." Neji explains. Luke chimes in with a question, "What were you doing in your ship? Well, more like, where are you going?" Neji mentally curses herself. She is not that good at lying, but she doesn't want to immediately tell them the real reason why she was in her ship. So she chooses her next best option.
"I rather...not say, if that's fine with you two."
Luke and Leia look at each other with a slightly puzzled expression before shrugging and looking back at Neji.
Luke holds Neji's free hand in his, "That's fine. For now, you can stay with us. Cool?"
Neji smiles and nods her head, "Cool. Thank you."