AN: Hey guys, sorry for the slight delay, I've had a lot of homework, Midterms are coming up AND I had a bit of a writer's block -_- but here it is, enjoy :).
A white and orange X-wing flies through the skies of Jakku, over the miles of endless sand. Inside, a young woman searches for any signs of Poe Dameron, 'He would have looked for some sort of settlement.' She thinks.
The Resistance sent Poe to Jakku for an important mission, but got suspicious when he didn't come back. The young woman was sent in order to look for him. But when she found the destroyed village and Poe's blown up X-wing, she quickly took to the skies, searching for him.
She looks at her scanner before looking through her window at the small settlement that was Niima Outpost.
She checks her monitor, "Niima Outpost." She raises an eyebrow, "Sounds familiar..." She blows it off and begins to fly toward the settlement, looking for a place to land.
Ben and BB-8 make their way through Niima Outpost, Ben's goggles are back on due to the fact that he was nearly blinded by the sun reflecting off the sand again.
"Yeah, Jakku doesn't have an axial tilt. So the sun rises and sets in the exact same places everyday. So I'm blinded pretty much every morning." Ben explains to BB-8. The small droid chirps out another question.
"Curtains? That'd be nice, but like I said, I'm dead broke, so it's either curtains or I don't eat for a week." Ben shrugs and rolls his eyes, "And I don't really think of it until morning, but by that time it's over."
As they keep walking, Ben sees someone running through Niima, 'Wonder what he's doing.' Ben thinks.
"Water. Water." Finn runs through Niima, searching frantically for water. "No water."
He rushes past people, grabs containers, and gets snapped at in several different languages, but he doesn't care. "Is there water?"
He all but collapses against a pole, he's about to give out. But then he hears something; a splash.
He turns around and sees a large creature standing next to a tank full of-
"Water!" Finn breathes, running over to the tank.
The woman that had been in the X-wing walks toward Niima Outpost. She had taken off her flight suit and helmet, because not only was two layers of clothing excruciating in the heat, but she wouldn't look as suspicious.
Keeping a sharp eye out for Poe and/or BB-8, she heads into Niima
Ben's kneeling down next to BB-8, when he hears from behind him-
"Plutt wants droid. We take droid."
"Wait what?!" Ben stands up quickly and looks at one of the thugs while the other one puts a bag over BB-8.
"Hey!" Ben kicks the other thug away from BB-8, "Get off him!" The other thug then grabs Ben from behind and lifts him off the ground. "AH! Put me down!" Ben yells, kicking and punching, trying to make the thug put him down.
It takes him a minute, but Ben is able to bite the thug that's holding him, he pushes him back and almost dives toward BB-8. "BB- Ouch!" The other thug had gotten up and smacked Ben in the face.
Nearby, Finn is knocked over by the large creature, and he hears the commotion nearby. He looks over just in time to see Ben get knocked over.
Finn stands up and begins to make his way over, 'He can't be over sixteen. They're picking on a kid!' Finn thinks to himself. "Hey!" He yells.
His yell isn't heard, because at that moment, "Leave him alone!"
Finn looks over to see who intervened. There stands a woman who appears to be about his age, maybe a little younger, she has her hair tied back into three buns. But despite her cute looks, she has a hardened glare and a blaster pointed at the thugs.
"I'll say it one more time. Leave. Him. Alone." And with that, she aims the blaster and shoots at the thugs' feet.
One of the thugs runs off, but the other one rushes toward the woman. Big mistake.
The woman reaches back and pistol whips the thug in the head, that gets rid of him.
Ben, who is still on the ground, crawls over to BB-8 and lifts the bag off him. BB-8 looks at him and gives several beeps of gratitude before he sees the woman.
He lets out louder beeps and rolls over to the woman quickly, he then proceeds to roll around her in circles multiple times. Rey puts her blaster back on her belt under her vest and smiles down at BB-8.
"Guessing she's the one you were looking for?" Ben asks, standing up and brushing the sand off of him.
"Probably not," Rey says, looking at him with a small smile, "But I was looking for him." She nods her head over to BB-8. "So, who were those men that attacked you?"
"Oh, those were some of Unkar's thugs," Ben looks down at BB-8, who looks back, "The guy that wanted you. He must've really wanted you."
Just then BB-8 looks over and lets out an alarmed sound then turns to Rey, beeping and chirping furiously, meaning "Poe's jacket! He has Poe's jacket!" Ben raises an eyebrow, 'Poe's jacket?' he ponders.
"Who?" Rey asks, looking where BB-8 is looking, "Him?"
"Who's Poe- Hey come back!" Rey and BB-8 take off in a high speed chase, he follows them.
Ben runs after them, following every twist and turn they make until Rey stops, pulls out her blaster and pistol whips a main wearing a tan jacket, the man falls to the ground.
Rey points her blaster at the man, "What's your hurry, thief?"
Finn groans and clutches his shoulder, "What? Thief?!"
BB-8 rolls up and shocks him in the leg. "Ow! Hey!"
"The jacket! This droid says you stole it!" Rey demands, continuing to point the blaster at Finn.
Finn returns her glare, "I've had a pretty rough day all right, so I'd appreciate if you stop accusing me of-" BB-8 shocks him again, "Ow! Stop it!"
"Where'd you get it? It belongs to his master!" Rey says.
Finn's head falls back and he groans, "It belonged to Poe Dameron. That was his name right?" Rey nods.
"He was captured, by the First Order, I helped him escape but our ship crashed...Poe didn't make it."
Rey cringes and her face falls slightly, BB-8's head kind of slumps down and he let's out a sad whine, "Look I tried to help him, I'm sorry." Finn says. BB-8 doesn't make a sound, he just rolls away.
Ben, who had been standing a few feet away, goes after him, "BB! Wait!"
Rey looks down at Finn, "So you're with the Resistance?"
Finn looks up into Rey's face, "...Obviously." He stands up, "Yes I am. I'm with the Resistance, yeah. I'm with the Resistance."
Rey looks at him, "...How come I haven't seen you around base?"
Finn thinks for a moment, "...I'm a spy, I was sent to investigate the First Order a while back."
Rey kind of smiles, "Well then, I guess we should get BB-8 back to the base."
"Yeah, apparently he has map that leads to Luke Skywalker and-"
"He found it?!" Rey interrupts, excitement in her eyes, she quickly regains herself, "That's why he and Poe were sent here, to find the map!"
"Uh guys," It's Ben, "I think we might have a slight problem."
Rey and Finn look at each other before walking over to where Ben and BB-8 are.
In the distance, the two thugs are talking to two...Stormtroopers. The thugs turn and point right at them! The Stormtroopers turn and begin to run toward them.
Finn's hands shoot out, one grabbing Rey's hand, the other grabbing Ben's.
"What are you doing?" Rey asks.
"Come on!" and with that, Finn runs off, pulling Rey and Ben behind them. They hear blasters beginning to shoot.
Ben looks over his shoulder, "Come on BB!" he calls. BB-8 quickly rolls after them.
Finn drags Rey and Ben through Niima, all of them dodging blaster bolts.
"Let go of us!" Rey yells.
Finn overlooks this, "Come on we gotta move!"
"I know how to run, thank you!" Rey jerks her hand out of Finn's, "Yeah...this is awkward." then Ben too, pulls his hand from Finn's.
"BB! Stay close!" Ben calls, running in front of Rey and Finn, "This way!"
They run as fast as they can into a tent, Ben hands on his knees and begins to pant, "They're shooting at all of us!" he says.
Finn, who is looking for a blaster, scavenges a table, "They saw you with me. You're marked."
"Oh thanks a lot!"
Finn blows this off, "Does anyone have blasters around here."
Rey looks around, "I think I left my ship over there somewhere, but the question is, how am I going to get all of us into-"
"SSHH! SSSHH" Finn says, running over to Rey and Ben. They're quiet, and then they hear them.
TIE fighters.
Finn's hands immediately find Rey and Ben's. "Stop taking our hands!" Rey and Ben say simultaneously.
They rush out of the tent and look behind them, the TIE fighters are advancing on them, "So where's this ship of yours?" Ben asks Rey.
"It's-" as if on cue, there's an explosion nearby. They stop running.
"What was that?" Ben asks.
"My ship."
They don't have long to dwell on this, because the TIE fighters come back and shoot, they just miss them, but they're still sent flying, they all land in the sand.
Rey is the first one up, she looks around, she sees Ben struggle onto his arms and crawl over to BB-8. She crawls over to Finn, "Hey." She says, shaking him gently, he sits up as Ben and BB-8 slink over.
"Are you okay?" Finn asks Rey. Rey gives an 'are you kidding?' look, "Yeah." She says. She holds out her hand, Finn takes it, then she turns to Ben and offers him her other hand, which he gladly accepts, "Follow me." She says.
They're once again running through Niima as fast as they could go, dodging the blasts from the TIE fighters.
They rush past multiple old ships.
"We can't outrun them!" Finn yells.
"We might! In that Quad-Jumper!"
"Hey, we need a pilot!"
"We've got one!" Rey holds out her arms as if gesturing to herself.
As another blasters almost hits them, Finn sees another ship that's closer, "What about that ship?"
Rey has her sights set on the Quad-Jumper, but Ben looks over at the ship Finn is talking about. "That one's garbage!" he shouts.
However, like the timing earlier, a TIE fighter swoops down and blows up the quad jumper. Without missing a beat, Rey alters her course, "The garbage will do!" She yells.
AN: Wow this chapter was hard to write, but anyway, we meet Rey, paths are crossed, and we get a cliffhanger! XD. Sorry about that, but find out how they get off of Jakku in the next chapter, for now...I gotta do more research.