AN: Hi everyone, sorry for the slight delay, I had a hard time writing this chapter. :/
Rey pokes her head up from underneath the panelling, "Grab me a Harris wrench, check in there!" She points to the larger toolbox.
"How bad is it?" Finn asks, rushing over to get the wrench.
"If we want to live, not good!"
"Their hunting for us now! We gotta get out of this system!" Finn fumbles around as he looks for the wrench. But he doesn't really know what it looks likes.
"Uuhh...Kylo can you give me a hand here?" He asks.
Ben stands up and walks over to him, "What're you looking for?"
"Harris wrench."
Ben kneels down and looks for the wrench, "Here it is." he says, picking it up and tossing it to Rey.
When he tosses Rey the wrench, Finn notices his hand. "What happened to your hand?"
"Huh?...Oh." Ben looks at his hands; they're cut, bruised, and calloused.
"I was a scavenger on Jakku, I had to deal with a lot of metal, wires—ya know, scrap, stuff like that," he shrugs.
"Okay, enough socializing! Pilex driver, hurry!"
Finn and Ben search through the tool box until they find the Pilex driver and hand it to Rey.
"Kylo, you seem to be an amazing pilot, why stay on that rock?" Finn asks keeping a sharp ear out in case Rey needed anything else.
"BB-8 asked me that question a few times, the answer is because I'm dead broke!" It takes Ben a moment to realize his voice had gotten a little harsher, "Sorry..." He says quickly.
Finn doesn't seem to hear the change in Ben's voice, because Rey's head pops back up, "I need the bonding tape!"
Finn looks behind him, there are several rolls of tape lying around, he picks one up, "It's not that one," He picks up another one, "No, no, the one I'm pointing to," Finn holds up a few more rolls, "No, no, no! If we don't patch this up the propulsion tank will overflow and flood the ship with poisonous gas!" Rey yells.
Ben easily looks over, grabs the bright yellow tape and hands it to Rey, "Thank you!" Rey says, exasperatedly.
Finn looks over at Ben and gives him a sheepish smile, "I've never done stuff like this before."
Ben rolls his eyes, 'Obviously.' He wants to say, but instead, he says, "I've had practice."
Just then, the lights and power go out, they all look around.
"That can't be good." Finn says.
"No it can't be." Rey climbs out of the service compartment and rushes into the cockpit, Finn following.
Ben looks down at BB-8 and bites his lip nervously before they follow Finn and Rey, "What's going on?" He asks as he arrives.
"Someone's locked onto us. All controls are overridden." Rey explains, Ben's eyes widen behind his goggles.
There's suddenly a loud sound, kind of like metal clanking, or a giant door opening. All of them look up through the window.
Then Finn stands up and climbs onto the dead console, using Rey's head as some sort of grip, "Get off," She pushes him off, "Get off!"
"See anything?" Ben asks.
Finn looks through the window, he sees what looks like the roof of a giant ship, "Oh no." he sits back down, "It's the First Order."
"What do we do?" Ben asks.
Finn turns to Rey, "You said poisonous gas."
"I fixed that."
"Can you unfix it?"
Rey looks at Finn for a second before standing up and walking out of the cockpit, Finn and Ben follow. They all rush back into the Hold.
"Oxygen masks!" Rey says, grabbing one, Finn grabs one also, but Ben doesn't, instead, he pulls out his breather mask and puts it on.
"You sure that'll be enough?" Rey asks, helping Finn lower BB-8 into the service compartment.
"Yeah, this thing filters out everything except oxygen."
"I got him." Finn says, and Rey lets him go, the minute she does, Finn falls over backward with BB-8 on top of him. Ben jumps down to help BB-8 off of Finn, "I'm okay." Finn says.
Rey grabs the panelling just as the lights come back on and pulls it over the service compartment.
"Do you think this will work on the Stormtroopers?" Ben asks as Rey begins to undo the work she just did. "Yeah. Their masks filter out smoke, not toxins." Finn says, before he lifts the panelling up slightly.
There's a lot of clanking from outside, "Hurry."
"I'm hurrying." Rey says.
The door begins to open and Finn drops the panelling. "Masks on!" He whispers.
The door opens. And Han Solo and Chewbacca come through. They point their weapons and walk into the hallway. Han half smiles "Chewie...We're home." Han says.
Chewie lets out a growl.
Han and Chewie carefully make their way deeper into the Falcon; looking around and checking scanners and pipes.
They hear a clang from the service compartment, they both turn around and look down.
Rey's almost done undoing her work when the panelling is lifted. All of their heads shoot up.
It takes her a moment, but Rey realizes who it is.
"Han?" she asks.
Han looks right at her, he looks closer, "...Rey?"
She smiles behind her oxygen mask and climbs out of the service compartment. They embrace for a moment before Chewie walks up and gives her a bear hug.
Ben stares up at them, Deja Vu has once again smacked him in the face.
"Hey who are these guys?" Han asks, pointing to Ben and Finn. "Oh, sorry, This is Finn," she points to him, "And this is Kylo." she points to him.
"Come on outta there." Han says. Finn takes off his oxygen mask and climbs out, Ben just climbs out, not removing his mask. But they both leave BB-8.
"Where'd you find it?" Han asks Rey.
"Niima Outpost."
"...On Jakku?" Han suddenly looks a little forlorn.
"Uh...yes." Rey looks down slightly.
Han snaps out of his sad trance, "Who had it? Ducain?"
"We stole it," Ben begins to explain, "From Unkar Plutt. He stole it from the Irving Boys, who stole it from Ducain."
"Who stole it from me! Well you tell him that Han Solo just stole back the Millennium Falcon, for good!" Han begins to walk down a hallway.
Ben walks forward eyes wide behind his goggles, "This is the Millennium Falcon?! You're Han Solo?!"
Han turns back, "I used to be!"
When Ben was on Jakku, he didn't really experience much, he heard stories about historical figures like Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, but he always thought they were just myths.
"Han Solo the Rebellion General?" Finn asks.
"I thought he was a smuggler." Ben pipes in.
Finn turns to Chewie, "Wasn't he a war hero?" Chewie just shrugs and let's out another growl, ("Dunno")
"This is the ship that made the Kessel run in 14 parsecs?" Ben calls after Han.
"12!"
Ben's eyes get even wider, "12! That's incredible!" he says to Rey. "Hard to believe, I know." she says with a slight smile.
"Hey!" They turn back to the hallway where Han was coming back, "Some moof-milker put a compressor on the ignition line."
"Unkar Plutt did," Ben says, "I thought it was a mistake too, puts too much stress on the hyperdrive."
Ben and Han look at each other, they had said the last part simultaneously.
"Chewie throw them in a pod, we'll drop them at the nearest inhabited planet."
"Wait, no!" Rey and they boys begin to follow Han, "We need your help!"
"My help?"
"This droid has to get to the Resistance Base as soon as possible! My ship was blown up and I lost my communicator on Jakku!"
"He's carrying a map to Luke Skywalker."
Han and Ben stop at the exact same time, "Luke Skywalker?" Ben asks, "I thought he was a myth."
"No, no Luke wasn't a myth, I knew him, I knew Luke."
Just then there was a bang outside the Falcon.
"Don't tell me a Rathtar's gotten loose." Han says, beginning to make his was outside, Chewie running after him. "Rathtars?!" Finn and Rey exclaim while Ben just gets a confused look beneath his mask 'What the hell is a Rathtar?' he thinks as he begins to follow the others out of the ship.
BB-8 uses his grappling hooks to climb out of the service compartment, then follows everyone else.
"You're not hauling Rathtars on this freighter are you?!" Finn asks, as they rush outside.
"I'm hauling Rathtars." Han says, checking multiple screens, "Oh great. It's the Guavian Death Gang. Must've tracked us from Nantoon." Han begins to lead them down another corridor.
"What's a Rathtar?" Ben asks.
"They're big and they're dangerous." Han says.
"Ever heard of the Trillia Massacre?" Finn asks.
"No."
"Good."
"I got three of them going to King Prana."
"Three?!" Rey exclaims, "How did you get them on board?"
"Used to have a bigger crew." Han says, Chewie nods.
They get to a hatch in the floor and Chewie opens it, "Get below and stay there until I say so, and don't even think about taking the Falcon."
"The thought didn't even cross my mind." Rey assures him.
"What about BB-8?" Ben asks.
"He stays with me until I get rid of the gang, then you can have him back and be on your way."
"What about the Rathtars? Where are you keeping them?" Finn asks.
There was a loud bang right behind them, Ben and Finn yell and Rey jumps before they turn around to see a large eye. "There's one." Han says, pointing at the door.
"What're you gonna do?" Rey asks as Ben and Finn make their way into the hatch, "Same thing I always do, talk my way out of it."
Chewie growls inn disagreement, "Yes I do. Every time."
Rey rolls her eyes and closes the hatch behind her.
Ben looks up at the paneling above them, listening to Han and the Guavian Death Gang have their 'conversation'.
"Han Solo. You're a dead man."
"Bala-Tik. What's the problem?"
"The problem is we loaned you 50,000 for this job."
Ben hears Rey from beside him, "Can you see them?"
"No." Finn replies.
Ben feels a tap on his shoulder, he looks at Rey and she gestures him to follow, he quickly crawls after them.
"I heard you also borrowed 50,000 from Kanjiklub."
"You know you can't trust those little freaks. How long have we known each other?"
Ben sends Han a look through the paneling, "Is this how he usually talks his way out of things?" he whispers to Rey.
"I'm afraid so."
'Oh boy.' Ben thinks before they reach what looks like a grate. He, Rey and Finn all look through it. "They have blasters." he whispers.
"A lot of them." Finn says.
"We want our money back now." Bala-Tik says to Han.
"You think hunting Rathtars is cheap? I spent that money."
"Kanjiklub wants their money back too."
"I never made a deal with Kanjiklub!"
"Tell that to Kanjiklub."
Ben, Rey, and Finn's eyes all widen as they hear another door open from the other side of the corridor.
"Here we go again." Rey mutters.
"Tasu-Leech. Good to see you."
The man, Tasu-Leech says something in another language, in his mind, Ben translates it to, "Wrong again Solo, it's over for you."
Ben, Rey and Finn begin to crawl quickly to the other side of the corridor.
"Boys, you're both gonna get what I promised. Have I ever not delivered for you before?"
"Yeah." Bala-Tik says.
"Twice" Tasu-Leech says.
Chewie nods in agreement to both.
Han thinks it over in his head, "What was the second time?" he asks.
"The game is old!" Bala-Tik snaps, "There's no one in the galaxy left for you to swindle."
"Nowhere left to hide!" Tasu-Leech follows.
"That BB unit," Bala-Tik starts, "First Order is looking for one just like it."
BB-8 hides behind Han's legs and peaks at Bala-Tik from around them.
"And three fugitives."
The 'three fugitives' stop when they hear him say that and they look at each other, eyes wide.
"First I've heard of it." Han says.
"Search the freighter." Tasu-Leech orders.
Below them, Rey, Finn and Ben are all but scrambling through the paneling, "Wait, wait, wait!" Rey says suddenly, crawling up to what looks like a bunch of fuses.
"If we shut the blast door in that corner, we can trap both gangs!" Rey whispers.
"We'll close the blast doors from here?" Finn asks.
"Resetting the fuses should do it." Rey says, and with that, she begins to press the fuse buttons.
From somewhere else in the ship, screeches begin to sound.
Everyone looks around, "I've got a bad feeling about this." Han says.
"Oh no." Rey says.
Ben's head snaps over, "What do you mean 'oh no'? What did you do?!"
Rey's eyes shift nervously, "Wrong fuses."
"Kill them! And take the droid!" Bala-Tik yells. But at that moment, on both sides of the corridor, Rathtars smash through the walls.
Ben, Finn and Rey all look up at they hear the commotion going on above them, "Rey," Ben starts, "Please tell me you didn't just release the Rathtars...did you?" he asks.
Rey bites her lip, "I released the Rathtars."
"Oh great!" Finn says sarcastically.
They weren't going to go back the way they came, so they began to scramble through the paneling.
"This was a mistake!" Finn yells.
"Huge!" Rey yells back.
After a while of crawling through the paneling, the three of them climb out of the paneling and run down the deserted corridor.
"What do they look like?" Ben asks.
Rey and Finn don't have to answer him, because when they round a corner, they see one. It's apparently struggling with a few of the gang members.
"They look like that." Finn says.
Ben's eyes widen and he feels heat rise in the back of his throat, it was atrocious!
He feels some one grab his arm, "Come on!" Rey says.
They race around a few more corners, "This way!" Finn says.
"You sure?" Ben asks.
As they run, Ben hears Finn scream, he whirls around to see that the Rathtar has him around the leg "Finn!" he calls, taking a step forward. Oh how he regrets that because the Rathtar apparently thinks "The more the merrier" because it grabs him around the waist, then began to quickly crawl away.
"No, no, no!" Finn yells.
Rey whirls around, "Finn! Kylo!" She yells as the Rathtar crawls away, with Ben and Finn screaming all along the corridor.
"Rey!" They call.
Rey is running after them, but after she runs through a few hallways, she looses them. "Finn! Kylo!" She calls.
She looks around for a moment before she hears, "Let go of us!" she turns around, it's the monitors that Han used earlier. She walks over and looks for Finn and Ben, she she finds them, she presses a few buttons then waits.
When the Rathtar crawls through a door, she presses the big button and the door closes and cut the tentacles.
Ben and Finn fall to the ground, then they stand up and struggle to get the tentacles off of them. "I think I'm gonna be sick!" Ben says, throwing a tentacle down.
"You and me both!"
"Finn! Kylo!"
They both turn as Rey runs up. "It had us!" Ben exclaims, "But the door-!"
"That was lucky!" Rey nods her head and they run back through the corridors, watching for Rathtars.
After running through maze-like hallways and dodging gang members and the Rathtars, they finally find the hangar.
"Han!" Rey says.
"You," He says to Ben, "Close the door behind us. You take care of Chewie! He's been shot!" He says to Finn, giving the injured Wookiee to Finn.
Ben rushes inside the Falcon and waits for everyone to get inside, "You alright BB?" He asks as the little droid passes him. BB-8 beeps out an "I've been better." and Ben chuckles, closing the door after Finn and Chewie come inside.
Ben and BB-8 rush back to the cockpit, "I'm having my mid-life crisis at 17!" he says to BB-8 just before they arrive.
"Watch the thrust we're going out of here at lightspeed!"
"From inside the hangar is that even possible?!" Ben asks, sitting down behind Rey.
"I never ask that question 'till after I've done it!"
Ben and Rey let out yells as a Rathtar jumps onto the window, "This is not how I thought this day was gonna go." Han says.
'You and me both!' Ben thinks.
"Angle the shields, hang on back there!" Han yells.
"No problem!" Finn yells back.
Outside, the Guavian Death Gang begins to shoot at the Falcon as it begins to hover and turn, "Come on Baby, don't let me down!" Han says.
They engine sounds like it's failing. Han looks at the console, confused.
From the corner of his eye, Han sees Ben point at something, "Compressor." Han shoots Ben a glance before he pressed the button and they all but slam into their seats as they take off.
The Rathtar then splits in half as they make the jump to lightspeed.
Back in the hangar, Bala-Tik speaks into a communicator, "Inform the First Order that Han Solo has the droid they want, and it's aboard the Millennium Falcon!"
AN: Yay! We meet Han and Chewie! I know the "reunion/meeting" between Han and Ben probably wasn't ideal, but it'll get better, I promise. Hope you enjoyed ;)
