His eyes opened the next morning to the sound of things moving and the beeping of a droid. He was now sitting up at tied to a post, he looked up to see the girl, Rey. She was talking to the BB unit,
"Wait, where's Bomber."
"Who's Bomber?"
"My droid, an astromech."
"I can go check if you X-Wing is still there later today, but if you want to eat I have to work."
"What do you even do?"
"It's Jakku, what do you think." and that was the last thing she said before walking out the BB unit following after. She looked back around the corner,
"I'll be at the Niima outpost later today if you need anything or you know escape." she turned the corner, he looked down at his belt. His lightsaber was gone,
"Hey! Where's my lightsaber!" she poked her head around the corner and held out his lightsaber,
"Is it this funky device?"
"Yes! Give it to me!" he demanded,
"Nope, this is mine now." she said walking out the door.
"Hey! Give that back! I need that! That's mine!" he sat their annoyed, he looked up at the chains around his wrists. One last time he would use the force and that was it. He closed his eyes and pulled at the chains, he heard the chains clink as they hit the ground. He got up and he felt his whole body yell out in pain. He grimaced as he grabbed a ledge catching his breath. He kept walking trying to find the Niima outpost, he didn't know where the Niima outpost was. This was one the last time, for real this time. He followed the force all the way to the outpost, apparently it had taken him a long time because Rey was already cleaning her stuff. He looked at her, and then next to her to see a familiar red droid.
"Bomber!" he moved as quickly as his sore body would allow him. He sat down next to the droid. She looked at him,
"I'm going to get food." she got up heaving the sack of stuff over to the counter the small BB unit following her. He sat with the droid waiting for her to come back. She finally came back with a few packets in hand of what didn't look like food.
"Can I eat that?"
"Just wait until we get back to my shelter and I'll show you that it's food."
"What about my ship, can we salvage it?"
"Oh, your ship. Yeah I salvaged parts from it and just traded them for food."
"What! I needed that ship, I gotta get out of here!"
"Too bad. I'll be back in a minute, I have to grab something." he watched her walk off. What was he supposed to do know, he had no ship to get off the bucket of sand. He had to get out of here before Ben would come looking for him. He stood up putting his weight on top of Bomber's head. He looked around, nothing, just sand, sand, and more sand. He looked a man stumbling into the outposts, he runs straight over to a well of water. That a disgusting creature is drinking out of as well, but the man was too thirsty to care. He looked down at the mans feet, boots, special boots, stormtrooper boots.
She walked through the tents trying to find a net that she had left behind. She found it and picked it up, she looked up to see two of Unkar's thugs. They threw a bag over BB-8 and he started to squeal, she threw down the net and jammed her quarterstaff into the first thug's stomach and smacked the other one over the head. She swept her feet under the first one's legs knocking him to his feet. She smacked him over the head knocking him out, she turned back to the second one and growled lunging towards him. She jammed her staff into the ground and jumped kicking both feet into his chest knocking him over into the sand, she whapped him over the head knocking him unconscious. She took the bag off of BB-8,
"Are you OK?" BB-8 beeped his appreciation, before looking over. He started to beep angrily,
"Him?" she pointed to a man standing over wearing a pilot's jacket. She stood up and glared at him and ran towards him. The man started to run, she chased after him. She watched his pattern through the tents, she turned a different one and ran down it fast skidding around a corner and sat and waited. She saw the man running still looking behind him, she held out her staff aiming for his chest, he ran straight into it and crashed down into the sand. He tried to scramble away but she stabbed her staff in to his jacket,
"Going somewhere thief?"
"Hey, what? Thief?" BB-8 held out a welding weapon shocking the man,
"Ow!"
"The jacket, the droid says you stole it."
"I've had a pretty messed up day alright! So I'd appreciate it if you stopped accusing me- OW!" BB-8 shocked him again as if to say he was lying,
"Stop it!" the man yelled,
"Where did you get it?" the man paused, his face scrunched trying to put everything together,
"Poe Dameron, that was his name right?" Rey looked to BB-8 and then back to the man, "He was captured by the first order, and I helped him escape but our ship crashed. Poe didn't make it." BB-8 let out a long, sad cry for his master.
"Look, I tried to help him. I'm sorry…" BB-8 rolled off upset and Rey looked back to the man,
"So your with Resistance?"
"Obviously. Yes. I am. I'm with the Resistance yeah," he stood up,
"I've never met a Resistance fighter before." Rey said getting excited,
"Well, this is what we look like. Some of us. Others look different."
"BB-8 says he's on a secret mission and needs to get back to your base."
"Apparently he's carrying a map to Luke Skywalker, and everyone's after it."
"Luke Skywalker? I thought he was a myth." BB-8 rolled back over beeping frantically,
"What is it?" Rey walked over to him and peeked her head around the tent corner. There were men is white armor standing talking to each other, they pointed in her direction and she felt someone grab her hand, the man dragged her behind a tent,
"What are you doing?"
"Come on!" laser blasts start ripping past them, she screamed, he grabbed her hand and they both started to sprint through the outpost BB-8 yelling unholy things as they ran.
"Come on BB-8!" the man yelled, still gripping her hand,
"Let go of me!"
"No, we gotta move!" she pulled her hand away,
"I know how to run without you holding my hand! BB-8 stay close! This way!" she cut a sharp corner through the tents losing the troopers for only a moment. She heard the men in white yell,
"Call in the air strike!" Rey moved through the tents before taking cover for a minute behind the rusty boxes,
"Their shooting at both of us!" she whisper yelled,
"They saw you with me, now your marked!" he shot,
"Well thanks for that!"
"I'm not the one who chased you down with a stick! Does anyone have a blaster around here?!" She didn't care, she looked to BB-8,
"Are you ok?" the man put his hand over her mouth because he heard something, she was too scared of dying to pull her face away, he grabbed her hand and pulled her away from their hiding spot,
"Stop taking my hand!" she shouted ripping it away, they run through the tents away from the troopers who are still firing, they make it out to open terrain. A green blast appeared from the sky shooting the ground, just missing them! The sand explodes in front of them in a tower, knocking her off her feet and rolling into the sand. She sees the man over by himself, looking to unconscious. She is rattled but scurries over to him,
"Hey!" she says shaking him, trying to get him to wake up. He finally comes to looking up at her,
"Are you ok?" he asks, she stops never having been asked that question before.
"Yeah," she helps him to his feet before extending her hand. "Follow me." he takes her hand, they run further as the TIE fighters scream through the sky continuing to dive bomb them. They duck and weave through the shots,
"We can't outrun them!" she heard a familiar voice yell, Toby is now running next to them, his droid following closely. She pointed to the red parked ship,
"We might in that quadjumper!" she yelled,
"We need a pilot!" the other man yelled,
"We've got one!" she yelled,
"You?!" he points to an old ship, "What about that one?"
"That one's garbage!" she yelled still bee lining the quadjumper. The TIE fighters scream overhead shooting the quadjumper and exploding it into a million pieces. The five of them skidded to a halt,
"The garbage will do!" she screamed, turning on a dime running for the old ship. They run towards the ramp of the ship while dodging laser beams, they dash up the ship's ramp and close the door.
"Gunners down there!"
"You ever fly this thing?" the man asked nervously, running down the hall, she tossed her staff aside jumping into the pilot's seat, with Toby jumping into the co pilot's seat. The engine whines to life,
"This ship hasn't been flown in years!" she yelled flipping a few switches,
"I can do this, I can do this." she murmurs pulling the yoke of the ship and it shakily gets into the air, the tarps fly off as the engine rumbles and roars. She yanked the yoke upward, heading for the sky,
"Hey! Oh! Stay low! Stay low!" she hears the man yell,
"What!"
"It'll confuse their track!" she let go of the yoke and the ship makes a lurch for the ground. She frantically grabbed the yoke pulling up,
"Hold on BB-8!" she yelled as the ship makes a plummet towards the sand, she hears the mechanical screams from the droid. She leveled out the ship sending sand flying in it's trial.
"I'm going low!" the TIE fighters scream past them, the TIE fighters cut their engines flying behind them. They began to shoot, she frantically increases speed flying across the sand.
"What are you doing back there! Are you going to shoot back or not?!" she screamed,
"I'm working on it! Are the shields up?" Toby flicked a switch,
"They are now!" she hears two shots fire from their ship but the TIE fighters are still on their tail, the TIE fighter aims and fires another shot rocking the ship.
"We need cover quick!" he yelled, she sees rock formations ahead, she turns the ship aiming for the narrow canyon,
"We're about to get some!" she yelled turning the ship on it's side, flying through the narrow passage. "I hope." she whispered. The TIE fighters are still on their tail through the canyon as the ship bumps and scrapes against the rock face. She hits a side to hard and they plummet towards the sand just as the canyon is ending, the ship skidded against the sand as she turned to see the ship graveyard. The man continued to fire narrowly missing the fighters, he fired once more,
"Come on, come on!" he finally hits and shatters the first fighter,
"I'm getting pretty good at this!" she flew through the wrecked ships, the fighter fires again and hitting the ship's lower turret. She can hear alarms blaring in the ship,
"They're stuck in forward position! I can't move them, you have to lose them!" he yelled, she feels the ship shake as they are hit again. Her mind raced through the possible ideas, she looks up to see a down star destroyer,
"Get ready!" she yelled,
"Okay! For what?" she lurched the ship into the rear end of the star destroyer, the TIE fighter is still closing fast. The ship grazes corners of metal while she tries to evade the fighter sending sparks flying. She panicked and runs out of space in the wreck,
"Oh no!" she screamed yanking the yoke and the ship lurched to the right out of the destroyer. She cut the engines flipping to face the TIE fighter, flying backwards. The man shot, destroying the second fighter,
"WHOOO!" she heard him scream as she turned the engines back on before flying high into the sky. They cleared the Jakku atmosphere and there they were, in the vastness of space. She excitedly unbuckled her seatbelt and jumped over the seat and ran to the man, a flurry of excited compliments fills the air, BB-8 beeped urgently, she turned and kneeled down next to him,
"Don't worry he's with the Resistance, he'll get you home. We both will." she smiled at the droid who shot the man a look.
"I don't know your name." she said standing and turning to face the man.
"Finn, what about your's?"
"I'm Rey."
"Rey…" something snaps and steams is filling the ship from under the grates, she runs over tearing up the grates,
"Quick help me with this!" She saw Toby running in,
"Whoa, what's going on?" her head popped out from the grate.
"It's the motivator! Grab me a harris wrench! Check in there!" she pointed frantically to a tool box.
"How bad is it?!"
"If we want to live, not good!" she shouted popping back out of the grate,
"They're hunting for us now, we gotta get out of here. Is it this?" he threw the wrench, she stuck a hand up catching the wrench and it disappeared back into the technical madness.
"Pilex driver, hurry!" she shouted frantically, Toby butted in seeing that Finn didn't know what he was looking for and tossed it to her.
"Thanks," she said her head ducking back into the grate.
"So where's your base?" Finn asked BB-8, "Come on, tell her." he growled, the droid rolled over and gave a few beeps.
"The Ileenium system?"
"Yeah the Ileenium system, that's the one, get us there as fast as possible."
"I'll drop you two at Poneham Terminal. I need bonding tape, hurry!" Finn searched the box,
"What about you?"
"I gotta get back to Jakku."
"BACK TO JAK- Why does everyone want to go back to Jakku!" Finn keeps holding up different tools trying to find what he needs,
"No, not that one, no, no, the one I'm pointing at. NO. NO. NO. If we don't patch this up the propulsion tank will overflow and flood the ship with poisonous gas!" she shouted angrily, Toby jumped in grabbing the tape and throwing it to her.
"Yes!"
"Hey, Rey, you're a pilot! You can fly anywhere. Why go back?! You got a family, a boyfriend? Cute boyfriend." he asked still baffled at the idea that she wanted to go back to that dust bowl. The steam and alarms stop and she popped out of the grate annoyed,
"None of your business, that's why." All the ship's power surges to life, BB-8 lets out a nervous beep.
"That can't be good."
"No it can't be." Toby muttered, the three of them ran to the cockpit, Rey jumped over the seat again landing in it looking at screens and buttons across the dashboard.
"Someone's locked on to us, all controls are overridden." Finn quickly, and awkwardly climbed up onto the dashboard looking out the window.
"Get off, get off, see anything?" Finn shook his head climbing back down,
"Oh no."
"What!" she looked up to a huge freighter swallowing the ship whole,
"It's the first order."
"What do we do- there must be something." Finn paused, face twisted in concentration.
"You said poisonous gas?"
"Yeah, but I fixed that."
"Can you unfix it?" Rey stopped before realizing what he meant. The three of them ran back to the grate. Rey jumped in,
"Quick, Toby grab those gas masks." he snatches them off the hooks and he and jumps in. Finn helps BB-8 into the grate before jumping in after them, she pulled the grate back over them. She works on taking the motivator apart,
"Do you think this will work on stormtroopers?"
"Yeah, their masks filter out smoke, not toxins." they hear the clanking of the ramp lowering and the door opening,
"Hurry!" Finn whispered shouted,
"I am hurrying!" she shot back, the grate is lifted off by a huge furry creature, a man is standing there pointing a gun at them. They Finn and Rey put their hands up in surrender,
"Dad? Uncle Chewie?" she looked over at Toby,
"Dad?"
"Toby?" the man asked,
"It's me dad."