The next morning, BB-8 was startled 'awake' when Ben lets out a yell; he looks over at Ben, who's clutching his face.
Ben brings his face out from his hands and looks at BB-8 sheepishly, "Um…sorry, I looked out my window and was blinded, not only is the sun bright, it reflects off the sand and makes things worse." Ben explains, throwing his legs off the side of his 'bed'.
After Ben gets dressed and cleans his teeth with a dry toothbrush and paste, he grabs his bag and face coverings and the two go outside.
Ben walks over to his bike and takes his sled from behind the seat, before he grabs a small gray handle and pulls out a small tray-like extension "I added this to my bike in case I ever had a heavy load…or a passenger!" He said.
He lifts BB-8 onto the small extension and ties him on using sturdy wires. "You're not too uncomfortable are you?" Ben asks, BB lets out a small beep that means 'no'.
"Okay, good." Ben says, pulling his goggles on, and mounting his bike, "Hang on!" He calls over his shoulder before pushing down on the handles and the vehicle began to move.
Darth Caedus storms up to the cell where Poe Dameron was being held, General Hux is standing outside the door, apparently waiting for Caedus to arrive.
"You called, Hux?" Caedus asks, practically spitting out Hux's name. Hux's face stays emotionless.
"The prisoner has resisted all of our strategies, I figured it was time to inform you and allow you to search his mind." Hux says, his tone not changing.
Caedus smirked behind his mask, "Running to me as usual." he says before walking into the cell. Hux's face flushed furiously.
Caedus walks over and stands next to the IT-O interrogation droid, Poe begins to wake up.
Poe groaned lightly as he regained consciousness, he slowly opened his eyes and came face to face with the silver and black masked face of Darth Caedus.
They stare at each other for the longest time.
The IT-O turns to Caedus and begins to murmur out an explanation but Caedus lifts his hand, makes a fist, and crushes it with the Force in a split second.
"You didn't have to do that, it was only a droid." Poe says as the droid hits the floor.
"Yes, but it failed me for the first," Caedus kicks the droid with his foot, "And last time."
Caedus turns and walks closer to Poe, "But enough of that. I have to say, I'm impressed, no one's been able to get out of you," He stops in front of Poe and his voice gets more threatening, "What you did with the map!"
"You may wanna rethink your technique."
And Caedus did just that.
He lifts his hand and brings it toward Poe's face. Poe feels as if something sharp stuck into his head. It's excruciating. And if that wasn't painful enough, he felt Caedus use the Force and suddenly his head slams against the backrest.
"Now where is it?" Caedus asks almost casually.
Poe seems to be having trouble breathing, "The Resistance...will not be intimidated by you." He looks like he's going to be sick. Caedus pushes into his mind harder, "Come on now, where is it?"
Eventually, Poe lets out a scream and all but gives out, Caedus is able to search his mind and find out what he did with the map. When he has his information, he pulls out of Poe's mind and the other man passes out.
With that, Caedus turns and walks outside, "It's in a droid, a BB unit." He says to Hux.
"Well then, if it's on Jakku we'll soon have it." Hux says.
"I leave that to you." Caedus says, walking off.
Once at Niima, Ben unties BB-8 and lowers him onto the ground before putting the wires back into his bag. "Don't give up hope, he might show up…whoever you're looking for."
BB-8 chirps at him. "Classified? okay. But anyway, don't worry, you'll find him, just wait, trust me, no one knows more about waiting than I do." Ben says, BB tilts his head and asks him what he was waiting for.
"For an opportunity to get off this scrapheap! I've been waiting pretty much my whole life!" Ben calms down a bit before continuing, "But it's alright, I'll get off this scrapheap," Ben looks down at BB and gives him a sad smile and nods, "Someday..."
BB beeps out a question. "Why don't I leave now? 'Cause I'm dead broke and I can't make components out of thin air." Ben rolls his eyes and tosses his bag over his shoulder.
Ben begins to walk into Niima and he gestures BB-8 to follow him, to which he happily obliges.
As they walk and/or rolled into Niima, Ben pulled another spare part from his bag; "I forgot to trade these yesterday, so I'm gonna trade them now." Ben explains, pulling out a few more parts.
"These five pieces are worth, let me see here, one half portion."
Ben just stares as Unkar gets him his ration packet, he takes it and is about to walk away, when he hears Unkar behind him.
"What about the droid?" Ben turns to face him, then he looks down at BB-8, who looks back. "What about him?" He turns back to Unkar.
"I'll pay for him," Unkar reaches down and brings out a mound of ration packs, then he reaches down and brings out more. "Sixty portions."
Ben's eyes are wide as he walks forward and grabs some of the ration packs, but then he snaps out of his little awe-trance and looks at BB-8, who is still staring at him.
He couldn't sell him. Not only was he someone else's, but he's the only friend Ben's had in years. "Actually," he lets go of the sixty portions, "The droid's not for sale."
He takes his half portion and turns around, "Come on." He says to BB, before walking off. BB-8 glances back at Unkar as he follows Ben.
Furious about not getting the droid, Unkar throws the Sixty portions on the ground and pulls out a communicator. "Follow the boy and get that droid!"
FN-2187 walks down the corridor and turns to the cell where Poe is being held. He walks inside and turns to the guard that's standing next to Poe. "Caedus wants the prisoner." he says.
The guard releases Poe, but then puts handcuffs on him and FN-2187 grabs Poe by the arm and escorts him down the hallway.
They make a few turns, but the second they're in an empty hallway, "Turn here." and FN-2187 pushes Poe into a small sub-hallway.
"Listen carefully, if you do exactly as I say I can get you out of here."
Poe looks confused, "What?"
FN-2187 reaches up and takes off his helmet, "This is a rescue. I'm helping you escape. Can you fly a TIE fighter?"
"You're with the Resistance?"
FN-2187 gets a quizzical look for a second, "What? No, no, no I'm breaking you out can you fly a TIE fighter?"
"I can fly anything."
FN-2187 lets out a quiet-excited laugh.
"Why," Poe starts, "Why are you helping me?" he asks.
"Because it's the right thing to do."
"...You need a pilot."
"I need a pilot."
Poe grins, "We're gonna do this."
"Yeah?"
A few minutes later, the two walk into the hangar. FN-2187 making it look like he was taking the Poe somewhere.
"Okay, stay calm, stay calm." He FN-2187 says quietly.
"I am calm." FN-2187 kind of looks at Poe, "I'm talking to myself." Poe turns around to give him a "seriously?" look before they pass a group of troopers.
"Not yet." the minute they're away from the troopers, FN-2187 kind of pushes Poe toward some TIE fighters. "Okay, go. This way."
After Poe gets his restrains off, he and FN-2187 climb into one of the TIE fighters. Poe takes his jacket off and looks around the interior of the TIE fighter, "I've always wanted to fly one of these things." He turns around to FN-2187, "Can you shoot?"
FN-2187 takes his helmet off, "Blasters, I can."
"Okay same principle. Use the toggle on the left to switch between missiles, cannons, and mag pulse. Use the sight on the right to aim. Triggers to fire."
FN-2187 looks around, slightly confused, "This is very complicated."
They both jolt forward as the TIE fighter ascends.
All of the troopers stare as the rouge TIE fighter is caught by its tether.
"I can fix this!" Poe says.
"We have an unsanctioned departure from bay two."
"Alert General Hux, and stop that fighter!"
Stormtroopers poured into the hangar, placing down cannon and pulling out their blasters in order to shoot down the rouge TIE fighter down.
FN-2187 begins to practice with the TIE fighter's blasters. He shoots at the troopers on the ground, sending them flying.
He shot at the troopers, he shot a few TIE fighters, and then he switched to the cannons and took out the flight control balcony before he heard Poe, "Okay I got it."
With another tug, they break the tether and speed out into space.
"OOH, this thing really moves!" Poe exclaims.
Poe turns the TIE fighter around and they fly back to the Finalizer, "Okay, we gotta take out as many of these cannons as we can, or we're not gonna make it very far!" Poe explains.
"Alright."
"I'm gonna get us in position, just stay sharp."
Poe maneuvers the TIE fighter through some shooting and gets into position. "Up ahead! Up ahead! You see it? I got us dead center it's a clean shot."
"Alright." FN-2187 remembers what Poe said to him about aiming and using the toggle. He takes aim and when the target is over the cannon, he shoots.
He hits both cannons easily.
"YEAH!" FN-2187 exclaims.
"YES!" Poe counters
"DID YOU SEE THAT? DID YOU SEE THAT?" FN-2187 is overwhelmed with excitement.
"I saw it." Poe says, ginning.
As they fly around the Finalizer, Poe kind of turns around in his seat, "Hey what's your name?"
"FN-2187"
"F...what?" Poe doesn't know what to make of this.
"That's the only name they over gave me." FN-2187 explains.
"...Well I ain't usin' it...FN huh?...Finn. I'm gonna call you Finn, is that alright?" Poe asks, turning around in his seat again.
"Finn. Yeah, Finn I like that!" Finn says, turning around in his seat, grinning.
"I'm Poe, Poe Dameron."
"Good you meet you, Poe."
"Good to meet you too, Finn."
AN: I won't be finishing the scene with Poe and Finn because this point of the story parallels the movie.