Chapter 2
Flashback
Elsi slowly came back to consciousness at the sound of an engine roaring and people arguing a short distance away. She couldn't make out who the voices belonged to but she could tell she was on a ship in the medical bay.
She looked around and spotted Hennix on the bed next to her.
She rose to her feet only to gasp at the pain in her head. She swayed on her feet and quickly sat down.
"Hennix?" Elsi reached her hand towards his shoulder she leaned over him to check his wound.
Hennix was alive but hurt; he was barely breathing.
The ship was just ordinary, one that they would often use to travel to different worlds on missions. She guessed that it was Voe's.
She couldn't figure out how she got there. The last thing she remembered was Ben. BEN!
Where was he?
Elsi walked out of the medical part of the ship and towards the front.
"He killed our master. We need to bring him to justice." Voe, why was she saying these things?
"Ben doesn't need to be hunted, he needs our help."
Tai mentioned Ben, did he kill Luke? Is that what they were trying to tell me before I was knocked out?
Elsi couldn't believe it. She wouldn't. Not after Ben had been so sweet to her just the day before.
"Ben wouldn't do that." Elsi walked into the room and both Voe and Tai looked back at her from their seats up front. "He wouldn't."
"He told us himself Elsi. I'm sorry but master Skywalker is dead and we think Ben killed him."
Elsi shook her head in disbelief "What happens when you catch up to him, what will you do?"
"Well that's up to Ben." Voe steered her ship to the right with Ben's ship coming in view.
Suddenly Ben's ship turns around and starts heading straight towards them.
"What is he doing?"
"He's attacking!" Voe grabs the controls and immediately moves the ship to avoid Ben as he flies towards them.
"Bens father is one of the galaxy's greatest pilots, AND his uncle blew up the death star. We can't evade him."
Elsi couldn't believe it, she could sense that Ben was about to fire at them, but what was his intention? To blow them up? Or to merely disable their ship. "Pull up. He's- He's about to fire."
"What?" Tai and Voe looked shocked at Elsi.
"He's charging up the canons, pull up NOW!"
Voe did just as Elsi said, but not quite quick enough. A shot hit the main engine. The ship was disabled. They weren't going anywhere for a while. But Bens ship had already taken off.
"I – I don't believe it." Voe was shocked that Ben could have easily killed them with that shot. Who knew if it would have if Elsi hadn't sensed it and warned them.
"Ben wouldn't hurt us. He merely disabled our engine so that we couldn't follow him. Right Elsi? – Elsi?"
Elsi wasn't too sure anymore. She could sense Ben but the force around him had changed. Whilst he was still in the light, he was starting to cast a big shadow. Who knew how long it may take him to turn to the dark side, especially if someone was influencing him. But who? There were no Sith left were there?
"Once I get the engines fixed I can track him."
They all looked back as Hennix entered. "Hennix!"
"I can use the transponder signal on his ship and find him."
"Maybe we should tell his family what is happening?"
"No!" Elsi cut Tai off. "The last thing we should do is worry his parents. We send a message that we are safe and that we will contact more when we can. Once we learn the truth from Ben we bring him back and -"
"And what Elsi? What happens if he really did kill our master and we return only to tell his mother that her son killed her brother. Cause I sure am not gonna be the one to tell her."
"I will." Elsi said determined. "I will tell her."
Present Day
After 10 minutes of travelling towards the location of the droid she had tracked down, Elsi landed her ship at a nearby trading post.
That's all that Jakku was. Not much on the planet other than sand deserts, wreckage and small colonies of people, mostly just other thieves and bandits looking to make some credits.
Elsi barely went to anywhere populated, preferring to isolate herself and be alone and left in peace. That is, unless she was doing a mission. Then she would merely blend in with the crowds.
She hadn't been on this planet for long, and certainly had never visited this part before. It looked pretty much the same as the other parts of the planet.
Some commotion nearby caught her attention as she exited her ship. It was not abnormal for there to be a fight or argument between the planet's occupants. However, this commotion caught her eye not because of the woman who attacked the man but because of the droid that was beeping and following after them.
She was sure that this was the BB-8 unit that Leia meant.
She could simply steal the droid away whilst the two people were distracted, but Elsi could sense something in the woman, a connection she refrained from using as much as possible. A connection to the force.
Whilst Elsi no longer carried her lightsaber she was very much still connected to the force. Though the extent to which she used it would merely be to lift an object from one room to another when she couldn't be bothered to walk over to get it, or even to turn on her holoprojection messages with a wave of her hand.
Jedi mind tricks were pretty difficult as well, but it was not often that she did that anymore either, it required a lot of focus and consistent practice in the force that Elsi had done less of over the years.
Elsi watched as the woman tripped over the man and surprisingly BB-8 went over and shocked the man afterwards.
Elsi continued to watch from the shadows.
"Where did you get it, it belongs to his master?" The woman questioned.
"It belonged to Poe Dameron, that's his name right. He was captured by the first order, but I helped him escape." The droid belonged to Poe? Why did Leia not tell her?
"You know Poe?" Elsi interrupted stepping around the cloth hiding her position and moving closer to the pair.
"Who are you?" The woman questioned eyeing Elsi's cowl and mask with caution.
"I'm asking the questions not you." Elsi needed to know if Poe was safe, they were both friends for the short time that Elsi spent with the resistance attempting to train under Leia after losing everything. Training that only lasted a short time before it became too much and Elsi decided to leave.
"Well? Is he okay?"
"The ship crashed. Poe didn't make it."
Elsi's stood staring at the man in shock. Though she and Poe were only friends for a short while he was still someone she would never want to lose.
All she could think about was how she had just lost someone else from her life.
BB-8 bowed his head sad for the loss of his owner.
"I tried to help him I'm sorry." Poe said to both Elsi and the droid. "Did you know him well?"
Elsi shook her head and tried to evaluate what to do next.
"That's not important now. I need that droid." Best to be upfront about it Elsi supposed. She could not fail Leia again, if she had to fight both of them for the droid then she would.
"Not happening." The woman stepped seemingly threatening towards Elsi. Meanwhile no one noticed the droid slide away in sadness for his loss.
"I'm taking it either way so it would probably be best if you just step aside and let me do my job."
"Your job? BB-8 says that Poe worked for the resistance. If you both know him then does that make both of you resistance as well?" The woman turned to Elsi. "You don't look like you're part of the resistance."
"Well now if I looked like part of the resistance then I would probably be captured by now then wouldn't I?" Elsi smirked under her mask.
"Fair enough. And you?"
"Yes, obviously I am also with the resistance. I am with the resistance." The man whispered the last part which made Elsi quirk her eyebrow and cross her arms.
Elsi didn't recognise him but guessed he must be part of the resistance if he knew Poe. Besides there were many resistance fighters across the galaxy. Just because he wasn't from the main base didn't mean he didn't work for them, just like her. Elsi was just a little confused why Leia didn't mention him or Poe in the hologram. Maybe because Leia knew they were captured and Elsi needed to stay focussed on the droid? Or maybe they were the resistance fighters that were nearby and tracked her position before Poe got captured?
"I've never met a resistance fighter before. Now two in one day. Do you two know each other?"
"No and before we go ahead with any more pleasantries, I would like to know each of your names so that I don't keep having to call you man and woman in my head."
They both looked at Elsi weirdly.
"I'm Rey."
"And I'm Finn."
"Elsi."
"BB-8 says he's on a secret mission. He has to get back to your base."
"Which is why I am here, so if you will excuse me, I will be delivering him back to the general."
Elsi turned to leave but stopped still when Finn Blurted out. "Apparently he has a map that leads to Luke Skywalker and everyone's after it."
"Luke Skywalker? I thought he was a myth."
Elsi interrupted before they could be overheard. "No, he is very much real and if you guys don't stop talking soon then everyone will be after that droid. Besides this is top secret resistance information, you should not share it with her, you only just met her."
BB-8 interrupted them by beeping that there was trouble nearby.
Elsi looked around and saw stormtroopers in the distance.
"Looks like it's time to go."
Finn grabbed Rey's hand and dragged her along, they had seen her with the droid, she was in danger now as well. Just someone else for Elsi to protect.
"Common BB-8!"
And off they went. Time to run.
Authors Note:
Hi everyone. Thanks again for reading this story. It would be great if you could leave a review to let me know what you think of the story so far. I have added in a 'Flashback' and 'Present Day' title for each section so that it is not too confusing about the timeline. I have used parts of the story from the scenes in the comics, but I will probably be changing things a little bit. Don't worry if you haven't read them, I will be setting out the backstory in these flashbacks. I might add a timeline in future chapters if it gets a little confusing. Thanks again, ZV.
