Back on the Star Destroyer, Poe is asleep in his cell until he is awakened by the opening of his door and a stormtrooper shaking him awake
"Listen carefully, if you do exactly as I say, I can get you out of here." JA-8721 explained
"What are you talking about?" Poe says hazelly
"This is a rescue, I'm helping you escape. Can you fly a Tie fighter?" JA-8721
"You with the Resistance?" Poe said excitedly
"What? No no no! I'm breaking you out. Can you fly a TIE fighter?" JA-8721
"I can fly anything. Why, why are you helping me?" Poe said
"Because it's the right thing to do." JA-8721 said
"You need a pilot." Poe said smirking
"I need a pilot." JA-8721 said
Poe smiles at JA-8271 "We're gonna do this." Poe said
JA-8721 smiles as she puts her helmet back on, walking with Poe. They marched with their pace picking up little by little
"Okay, stay calm, stay calm." JA-8721 said "I am calm." Poe said "I was talking to myself." JA-8721 retorted
When they finally got to the hangar they quickly headed over to the empty tie fighters. JA-8721 and Poe dropped into the back-to-back cockpit. JA-8721 pulls off her helmet as Poe removes his cuffs and jacket, firing up the ship with excitement
"I always wanted to fly one of these things. Can ya shoot?" Poe asked
"Blasters, I can" JA-8721 said
"Okay, same principle! Use the toggle on the left to switch between missiles,cannons, and mag pulses; use the site on the right to aim, triggering to fire" Poe said as he hit the thrusters, flying out of the hangar with other tie fighters following.
"Up ahead! Up ahead! You see it? I've got us dead centered. It's a clean shot." Poe said
"Okay, got it". JA-8721 quickly lines up the shot and fires, destroying the tie fighter. "YES! You see that?! Did you see that!"
"I saw it! Hey, what's your name?" Poe asked
"JA-8721"
"JA-whaa?" Poe said
"That's the only name they ever gave me!" JA-8271 said
"Well I ain't using it! JA, huh? Jade. I'm gonna call you Jade! That's all right?" Poe said
Even in the madness, She can't suppress her smile. "Jade. Yeah. Jade, I like that." Jade yelled happily
"I'm Poe. Poe Dameron." Poe said
"Nice to meet you Poe." Jade said
"Nice to meet you Jade." Poe said
"Alright time to take this baby back to Jakku." Poe said directing the ship
"What! No no we can't go back to Jakku. The First Order has probably covered the entire planet by now." Jade argued
"Well there's an important BB-8 droid on there with very important information." Poe explained
"How important can one droid be?" Jade asked
"The one with the location of Luke Skywalker." Poe said
"Oh you've got to be kidding me!" Jade said
"Hold on we——." Poe is interrupted by one of the pursuing tie fighter's missiles making a direct hit to Poe and Jade's thrusters. They quickly begin to crash down on the planet's surface with almost a certainty they will die.
Inside the deck of the Star Destroyer, General Hux and Darth Crause walk the length of the bridge. "Supreme Leader Snoke was explicit. Capture the droid if we can, but destroy it if we must." Hux said. Darth Crause gives a look of disapproval. "I need that droid unharmed, or else the map may be damaged. Crause said. "Careful Crause, that your 'personal interests' do not interfere with orders from Leader Snoke." Hux said, warning him. "I want that map. For your sake, I suggest you get it." Crause threatened. Crause walked away and Hux looked at him with anger.
Back on Jakku with the heat of the sun beaming on Jade's face. Jade slowly starts to awaken and when she has finally come to and realizes the seriousness of her situation. She hastily looks around trying to find out how she is out of the tie fighter, she then looks down to see her seat had a parachute and must have been activated when they were crashing. Then Jade finally realizes that she's missing someone.
"Poe!" Jade yelled trying to get a response "Poe where are you?" Jade yelled again
Just as she was taking her plastoid armor off, suddenly the sound of a ship rings in the air as a tie fighter comes crashing down into the desert planet.
"Poe!" Jade yells as she immediately starts running to the crashed tie fighter. When Jade finally reaches the tie fighter and begins to look inside the fighter, it suddenly begins to sink into the desert; only managing to grab Poe's jacket, the fighter is completely sunken by the planet. Jade stood defeated as her only friend and possibly way off the planet is dead. However, she knows that if she just stands there in the middle of the desert then she will most certainly die, she puts on Poe's jacket and begins to traverse over the desert ocean.
After hours upon hours of sluggishly walking across the desert with Jade thinking that she will never get out of this hell; she finally spots a shipyard and her smile grew from ear to ear as she sprinted to the shipyard. She finds a trough of dirty water and almost submerges herself drinking from it. Satisfied even from this nasty water she looks up and from a distance she sees a BB-8 droid rolling around. "Wait, didn't Poe say that he was looking for that kind of droid. Then that means that droid is also my best chance out of here." Jade thought to herself as she got up and started to run towards it. She finally reaches the droid only to be swept under her feet and met with a green bladed lightsaber. "Who are and why are you after this droid?" Jaycen asked her. "My name is Jade and I have to get this droid to the Resistance." Jade quickly replied. But before things could escalate. "Jaycen, stop! She's defenseless and I don't sense ill intent from her!" Ben says while helping Jade up to her feet. Ben then realizes that she is wearing Poe's jacket. "Hey where did you get this jacket?" Ben asked. "I helped rescue Poe Dameron from the First Order star destroyer that's above the planet but we were shot down and crashed." Jade said. "Then where is Poe?" Jaycen asked. Jade looked down, for barely knowing the guy Poe is still the closest thing she had for a friend. "Poe didn't make it."
Jaycen and Ben look at each other, saddened by the death of their dear friend. Then something pops up in Jaycen's mind. "Wait, how could you have rescued Poe from the First Order!?" Jaycen asked with his voice starting to rise.
Jade doesn't answer right away, knowing that they won't like her answer, but lying to them could bite her in the back later, she hesitantly answered "I'm a stormtrooper"
Jaycen quickly gets into defensive form "Ben she's a part of the First Order we can't just let her live knowing where BB-8 is now." Jade puts her arms up,defenseless, "I'm not a stormtrooper anymore." Jade said. "How can we know that for certain?" Jaycen questioned her. "I only have my word." Jade said?
"I believe her," Ben said, stepping back into the situation. "Well what do we do with her then? Leave her here." Jaycen asked
"No, we'll take her back to base and if we are lucky she might have good information on the First Order." Ben said
Jade looks at Ben in surprise, fully expecting that things was about to end badly. "Fine seems fair enough but if this ends up being a trap I'm killing you." Jaycen said to Ben. "I can live with that." Ben said,
chuckling. As the trio walk back to the Y-wing, Jade's mind is going crazy. She had to talk to him. Jade then proceeded to walk beside Ben. "Why did you help me back there? You don't know me, all you know is that I'm a stormtrooper." Jade said. "I don't know, something in the force is telling me to trust you." Ben said with a smile "I'm Ben Skywalker by the way." Ben said introducing himself. "And that pleasant fellow over there is my older cousin Jaycen." Ben said, introducing his cousin. "Well it's nice to meet you guys." Jade said.
Before Ben could reply, he and Jaycen then stopped moving as they felt something bad was about to happen. Suddenly the air is filled with the screaming of First Order tie fighters.
"We've gotta get to the ship now!" Ben yelled as the trio started running towards the Y-Wing
As they make a run for the Y-Wing Jaycen notice the tie fighters coming down to attack. "Get down!" Jaycen yelled as the First order tie fighters bomb half of the shipyard including their ship.
"Ok new plan." Ben said as they got up and continued running.
"What about that Quadjumper up ahead?" Jaycen asked
"That'll work." Ben said but just then the Quadjumper was shot and destroyed
"Oh come on." Ben said as the group continues to run. "There's no other ships around. What are we going to do?" Jaycen asked looking around for anything to help them get out of here.
"What about that garbage over there?" Jade suggested as she pointed to the legendary Millennium Falcon
"Oh that's no garbage. Come on, let's go." Ben said as they ran towards the Falcon
"Jay you man the gun, Jade you'll be my co-pilot, and BB-8 you just enjoy the show." Ben ordered. Jaycen nodded as Jade and Ben ran to the cockpit. "Have you ever flown this thing before?" Jade asked
"Once. When I was a youngling." Ben answered as he fired up the Falcon's engines. Soon the ship starts to hover as they blasted off from the shipyard, but as they are taking off one of the thrusters isn't firing up.
"Dammit, one of the thrusters is broken. The ship can't leave orbit, so I gotta fix it." Ben said. "Jade you pilot and when I tell you to hit the lightspeed you hit, fast!." Ben yelled as he ran towards the back of the Falcon
"What! I can't fly this thing." Jade yelled
"Of course you can I just hit autopilot and stay close to the ground until I get this thing fixed!" Ben yelled from the generators.
"We've got incoming! Jaycen yelled while firing at the incoming 5 tie fighters, successfully shooting one down. "We got have 4 on our tails, keep flying steady!'' Jaycen yelled. "What do you think I've been doing?" Jade said to herself
They continue speeding across the desert sea as Jaycen takes out another fighter, but one of the fighters lands a direct hit at the turret. "Damn the guns locked, I can't move it!" Jaycen yelled
Jade starts to stress out, with Ben at the hyperdrive and Jaycen not able to move the turret, it's up to her what to do. She tries to think of all the different scenarios but nothing is working, but out of nowhere a sense of calmness starts to ease her, she slowly closes her eyes and suddenly a feeling of ease. She then opens her eyes and sees that there's wreckage of an old imperial Star Destroyer. She then gets an idea. "Guys I've got an idea you might not like it." Jade says as she pilots the Falcon into an old Destroyer. "What are you doing trying to get us killed?!" Jaycen yelled. "Just shut up and be ready to fire!" Jade responded as they entered through the wreckage of the destroyer avoiding crashing into the shards of the ship while also manuving around at high speed. Two of the tie fighters followed the Falcon through wreckage while the last one went above to cut them off. With the tie fighters on their tail and the wall of the destroyer with only a slither of a crack, Jade had choice but to hopefully make it through. She turned the ship vertically and hit the booster barely escaping the destroyer with the two fighters crashing into the wall. Jade then quickly cut the engine, making them flip over with the turret facing the last fighter.
"Now Jaycen!" Jade screamed
"Got 'em!" Jaycen yelled as he blew up the last tie fighter "Ben are you done?" Jaycen yelled
"Almost." Ben answered. Ben putting the final touches on the generator. "Now Jade!" Ben yelled.
Jade pressed the lightspeed control and then they were off into Hyperspace leaving Jakku once and for all.
