AN: Hello everyone, sorry for the delay, I was having a hard time writing this chapter :/. I hope you enjoy! :D
Rey, Finn, Ben, and BB-8 all scramble to get into the ship, "Gunner position's down there!" Rey says, pointing to a ladder, leading lower into the ship. Finn watches after her for a second before climbing down the ladder, while Ben follows Rey.
"You ever fly this thing?" Finn calls as Ben and Rey reach the piloting seats. "Well...Not this one, but I've flown others like it!" Rey says, sitting in the piloting seat.
"Has this ship ever flown?" Rey asks Ben. "No! This ship hasn't flown in years!"
Rey bites her lip while Finn mutters "Great." sarcastically.
Finn tries to aim the gun, but lets out surprised sound as the entire seat moves suddenly. He moves it back, "I can do this. I can do this." He says to himself
As Rey presses a few buttons, an alarm begins to sound. Rey looks around frantically, "No, no, no, no!"
"What is it?" Ben asks, panic in his voice.
"It's the Motivator! We're not gonna get very far if it breaks anymore." Rey looks at Ben, "Do you think you'll be able you fly this thing?"
"I'm a little rusty but I think I can."
"Okay, I'm going to get us into the air, then you take the controls, I've got to fix the Motivator or we're done for!"
Rey begins to tap a few buttons, making small comments like "I think this is it." and "If I remember correctly..." here and there.
Finally, the ship rises shakily, Rey pulls up the landing gear and allows the ship to hover, "Okay, now it's your turn!" Rey says to Ben.
Ben nods and quickly grabs the controls, in the split second Rey gives the controls to Ben, the ship shakes and almost falls. Ben is fast though, and he quickly brings the ship up.
After Rey leaves to go patch up the Motivator, Ben begins to mutter "I can do this. I can do this."
Ben brings the ship higher...then TIE fighters shoot at them and it falls a bit, everyone in the ship jolts. "Sorry!" Ben calls over his shoulder.
Ben grips the steering controls tightly and carefully begins to move forward, unfortunately, the ship wasn't as high as he thought it was. He smashes into the red 'archway' that leads into Niima. "Whoops." Ben mutters.
"What was that?" Rey asks, she was currently under the panelling and couldn't really see what was happening.
"Nothing important!" Ben calls back.
"Hey!" Unkar yells at the ship, running out of his shop, waving his arms.
The low flying Millennium Falcon zooms over him.
"THAT'S MIIIINE!"
The Falcon flies out of Niima. Luckily, Ben has now gotten more or less used to the controls, he quickly takes them upward.
"Hey wait! Stay low! Stay low!" Finn yells, pulling on a headset.
"What?!" Ben calls, looking over his shoulder for a split second.
"Stay low! It confuses their tracking!"
Ben looks over his shoulder again, "Hold on back there!" he yells.
BB-8 leans into the doorway, making two, "Uh oh" sounding beeps.
"I'm going low!"
And with that, Ben does an air summersault, then he straightens out the ship as they get lower to the ground. Then he turns the ship diagonally to avoid two TIE fighters that were shooting at them.
BB-8 rolls off the wall and lands on the floor with a loud clang.
The two TIE fighters circle around and shoot at the ship, successfully hitting them. Finn jolts forward, making a surprised sound.
Rey pokes her head up from beneath the panelling, "What are you doing back there?! Are you ever gonna fire back?!"
"I'm working on it! Are the shields up?"
Ben leans over in his seat, straining his arm, trying to flip the switch. "This isn't easy without a co-pilot!" he calls.
"Try sitting in this thing." Finn says to himself.
After they nearly crash into the ground, Ben finally gets the shields up, and Finn begins to aim at the TIE fighters.
He watches the little arrows and begins to fire at the TIE fighters. He misses, but the TIE fighters shoot at hit them again.
"We need cover, quick!" Finn yells.
"We're about to get some!" Ben yells, "I hope." he adds in a whisper.
Ben flies around a sand dune and finds the Star Destroyer wrecks. He flies toward the broken ships and tries to maneuver between them.
BB-8, who has been rolling around on the walls, finally tethers himself on the wall using three grappling hooks.
Ben has to turn the ship vertically in order to get through two huge pieces of broken metal and Finn begins to shoot again.
Ben flies over another ship and then flies lower to get closer to the ground, but as he pulls back up, they're shot again.
"If you aren't going to fire back!..." Rey yells.
"I'm not used to these controls!" Finn yells back.
Ben bites his lip as The Falcon kind of scrapes against the ground. He pulls up and at the last minute makes a sharp turn to avoid hitting the wrecks, now they only have one TIE behind them.
They fly underneath one of the ships, "Come on, come on!" Finn says, he watches the arrows on the monitor then begins to fire once again. But this time he hits the TIE.
"Nice shot!" Ben yells.
"I'm getting pretty good at this."
Rey hears this, however, "Don't get cocky on us now!" she calls.
Nearby, the TIE fighter crashes, and a group of scavengers run toward it.
However, the second TIE fighter found them and was firing.
It hits the gun. Finn struggles to move it, "The cannons stuck in forward position! I can't move it!"
Rey sticks her head up from the panelling again, "There's a second gun, just climb back up the ladder!"
"But make it quick!" Ben adds.
Finn rips off the headset and scrambles up the ladder into the other gun, it's similar to the other one, so it isn't as hard to learn, he pulls on another headset.
Ben looks around, "Are you there yet?" he calls.
"Yeah!"
Ben nods and then sees the giant engines of a Star Destroyer, "I'm gonna try and loose him!" he yells, beginning to push some buttons, "Get ready!"
"Okay...For what?" Finn asks.
Ben flies toward the wreck, the ship scrapes against the ground for a second before Ben takes them higher. He makes a sharp turn and then takes off toward the engine of the large ship.
Finn looks up as the place gets darker, "Are we really doing this?" He yells.
As they fly deeper into the engine, Ben rethinks his decision, 'Maybe this wasn't such a good idea after all!' He has to dodge beams in the cramped space and an explosion.
He jolts to the side as they fly through another explosion, caused by the TIE fighter shooting something, "GAH!" He exclaims.
He looks back to see that they're heading toward an even tighter area, "Oh no." he mutters, leveling out the ship so it can squeeze through the tight space.
The TIE fighter locks onto them and prepares to shoot just as Ben turns and they're back outside. He flies the Falcon up and down in a zig-zag-like pattern, trying to shake the TIE fighter off their tail.
Finn looks at the monitor and waits for the arrows to line up with the TIE fighter. The arrows line up dead center, and he shoots, hitting it. The fighter loses its right wing and crashes into a large chunk of Star Destroyer. "WOO!" Finn yells.
As they fly back toward the ground, Ben shoves a lever forward and they fly up a dune in a ramp-like style, past the Star Destroyers, and into outer space, away from Jakku.
BB-8 untethers himself as Ben and Finn meet up in the hallway.
"Nice shooting!"
"That was some flying!"
"Thanks!"
"How did you do that?"
"I don't know!"
"No one trained you?"
"No! I've flown some ships but I've never left the planet!
"That was amazing!"
"You're last shot was dead-on! You got him with one blast!"
There's suddenly a loud whistle. The two look over at Rey, who lowers her hands, she was smiling slightly.
"As exciting as that was, we still have business." She nods to BB-8, who's looking at all of them, thinking they're crazy. "Anyway, I think introductions are in order." She looks at Finn.
"Finn. You?"
"I'm Rey."
The both turn and look at Ben. At first he was going to tell them his name, but he barely knew them, instead, he comes out with "Kylo."
"It's nice to meet you bo-"
There's suddenly a clank and gas begins to come from beneath the panelling, the alarm goes off again.
Rey rushes over and jumps back inside, "Hand me the smaller toolbox! Quick!" She says.
Lieutenant Mitaka gulps before walking through the sliding doors that lead to the bridge, or more like: The doors that lead to his certain death. His heart is racing and he's starting to sweat.
He takes a deep breath before taking his hat off and saying "Sir..." to the towering figure. Darth Caedus turns his head slightly to look at him. "We were unable to acquire the droid on Jakku. It escaped capture aboard a stolen Corellian YT-model freighter..." He finishes, holding his breath. Caedus is silent before asking, "The droid...stole a freighter?"
"N-not exactly sir...it had help." When Caedus doesn't respond, he continues, "We have no confirmation but we believe FN2187 may have helped in the escape-" Mitaka never finished his sentence, for Caedus ignited his lightsaber and began to strike at the control panel furiously, sending sparks and pieces of the control panel everywhere.
Mitaka stands in shock and horror, flinching away a few times due to the sparks that shot everywhere from where the lightsaber hit. After one last swing at the control panel, the red light vanishes and the angry Caedus asks, "Anything else?"
Mitaka really didn't want to continue, but if he didn't tell him, the consequences would be worse.
"The two were accompanied by a girl."
Caedus clenches his hands into fists, and Mitaka feels as if he was just sucker punched in the stomach. He looses his breath and falls to his knees, coughing.
"Is that all?" Caedus asks. "No sir…they were also accompanied by a boy-" The minute the word 'boy' left Mitaka's lips, he feels himself being pulled in by some invisible force, Caedus's hand reaches out and grabs him by the neck, and the lightsaber is ignited again. "A boy?" He asks, tightening his grip on the man's windpipe, behind the mask, Caedus's teeth grit tightly, "What boy?!" he demands.
Ben sits on a nearby lounge as Rey and Finn struggle to fix the Motivator. "I thought you fixed this!" He hears Finn say.
"It was supposed to be a temporary fix, then I would help Kylo fly the ship!" Rey kind of snaps back.
Ben rolls his eyes slightly as BB-8 comes up to him, "Hey BB." He says, "How're you holding up?"
BB-8 beeps out that he's fine, before asking Ben a question.
Ben bites his lip and leans closer to BB-8, "I didn't use my real name because I barely know these people, and after what we just went through, I'm not telling anyone my real name."
Ben looks over at Rey and Finn to see if they're listening, "Could you please keep my name a secret, at least for now?"
BB-8 looks back at Rey and Finn, then back to Ben, who mouths 'please'. BB-8 beeps out his agreement.
"Thank you." Ben says, relieved. He gives BB-8 a thumbs up, BB-8 brings out a little arm and a small fire comes on, BB-8's version of a thumbs up.
Ben chuckles and leans back in the seat.
"Y'know BB, now that we're not being chased by TIE fighters, I've got a strong feeling of Deja Vu...I don't know why."
AN: Yay! Ben got his wish, he's off of Jakku! However, Caedus isn't happy about the news, and Mitaka...that guy needs a vacation. I hope you enjoyed! :)