Despite the First Order's failure to find the lost segments, BB-8 is still on the run and tries to figure out a way to get off the planet. Somewhere in the desert world and twenty-four miles away from Tuanul, two scavengers had entered a junked vessel corridor. The Scavengers were wearing goggles, face masks, and gloves. One was carrying a backpack with a staff strapped to it and other was carried a metal object which was hardly seen.
Using their tools to remove various mechanisms from inside the wall, they found valuable pieces, and drop them in their own satchels. The two climb down on their own cables, between treacherous walls of machinery. Alone in this massive sideways wreck, the scavengers descend down their two-hundred foot long cable. Landing hard onto the rusty metal, the two carry their satchels and head through the dust toward a distant slit of sunlight.
The Scavengers emerge from the darkness and pull off their goggles and gear to reveal their faces. They were revealed to be two beautiful young women, whose names were Rey and Allana Solo. Allana, however, calls herself Amelia and had lived on Jakku with her friend Rey for the last ten years. After her mother was assassinated by an unknown killer on Hapes, Allana was only nine years old when she disappeared and fled to Jakku, blaming herself for her mother's death and living in exile. No longer following the Jedi path, Allana turned her life around by becoming a scavenger.
Due to all the hard days work, Amelia and Rey open their canteens and drink as much water as possible.
"How much is left?" Amelia asked her.
"I don't know," Rey breathed deeply from all the heat that surrounded her.
"Let's head back to Niima Outpost before we're missed," Amelia suggested.
"And make a lot of portions as possible," Rey added.
Amelia and Rey were rendered minuscule, standing at the bottom of an epic engine of a decaying, crashed Star Destroyer. They hit their things on a piece of sheet metals, and slide down the sand dune. They ride down the mountain of sand and hold for a long time while looking down. Upon slowing down toward the sale flats below, Amelia and Rey board their own speeders and drive off from the scattered debris. Together, the two race along the desert floor which was known to be a graveyard of crashed starships that were destroyed long ago during the First Galactic Civil War between the Galactic Empire and the New Galactic Republic.
Upon arriving at Niima Outpost, Amelia and Rey carry their objects like tough seamen, and hauled their sacks from their own speeders toward the Niima Trading Structure. Amelia was busy scrubbing one of her structures between a Rodian and a Jawa while Rey glanced up and stared at an old woman, who was also cleaning some salvage that she claimed as well. Rey watches her, gets lost in the simple moment until a small passing alien underling barks something to her in another language. Rey snapped out of her moment and returned to work.
Eventually, Amelia and Rey walk up to the Niima Trading Structure which was runned by Unkar Plutt, a Crolute who was banished from his home planet Crul and established himself on Jakku during the First Galactic Civil War. Following the war's end, Unkar was the one who found and raised Rey after her family had left her by accident during the Second Galactic Civil War. For the last fourteen years, Unkar had finally bought out or driven out his competition in Niima Outpost, creating a monopoly for his business.
Amelia was the first to approach after Tugorn, a Yuuzhan Vong Warrior who served Supreme Commander Nas Choka during the Yuuzhan Vong War. After the war, Tugorn ventured across the Western Reaches of space and ended up on Jakku. Starting a new life on the planet, he became a scavenger and enjoyed to find a lot of things around the planet and deliver them to his employers in Cratertown. After Tugorn left with a handful of ten portions that he received from Unkar, Amelia approached the service window to meet Unkar face-to-face.
"Ah, my dear Amelia... hmm, hmm, hmm." Unkar chuckled. "What have you brought here today?"
"Harris wrench." Amelia answered and placed it on the booth for him to see. "How many portions would go for?"
"Well, I suppose..." Unkar paused as he examined the reactor. "Hmm... five quarter portions."
Rey heard it and felt jealous that her friend was lucky to earn higher portions than her. Although, she remained on good terms with her friend since she and Amelia work closely and combine their portions. She then watched Unkar pass a sack filled with five portions. Once Amelia was finished, she took a step away to allow her friend to meet him too.
"And what have you brought today?" Unkar asked her.
Rey didn't say anything, and instead she passes her item that she found in the ruined Star Destroyer. Unkar examined it for a moment and saw that it was priceless.
"What you've brought me today is worth... hmmm... one quarter portion." Unkar offered.
Though disappointed, Rey barely shows it and nods thanks to her boss. Unkar pushes through his transfer drawer a sealed packet with a quarter portion. She swallows her resentment and heads off with Amelia.
"One quarter portion." Amelia scoffed in disappointment. "That's still unfair."
"Unfair or not, but he makes the rules and none of us should do anything to offend him." Rey said.
"Look, we only have about 100 Quarter portions left before we go." Amelia added.
Rey stopped and asked her. "Go where?"
"I'm just saying." Amelia said. "There's a transport that is expected to arrive in a month's time, and will take us to the planet Naboo. We could... probebly end our career as scavengers and work as Handmaidens to the Queen."
"I'm not going anywhere." Rey declined the idea.
"Why?" Amelia demanded to know what her problem was.
"Because I made a promise to myself that I wait for my family to come back for me." Rey said and walks forward while Amelia watches her and made a deep sigh.
As the sun began to set, Amelia and Rey returned to their house and started to make dinner for themselves. While Amelia was busy cooking her food, Rey scratches marks onto the rusty wall. Amelia opens two packs of powders and pours them into two tins filled with milky waters. About a minute, they start to grow into loafs as she puts the meat on an old plate. Rey takes her place and walks outside. She slowly turns around and sees Amelia lying herself on her bed. At that moment, she walks outside and sits down.
Staring at the view of the desert, Rey eats like a starving child, and every last drop, she licks the metal plate. After she finished her meal, Rey picks up an old Rebellion Helmet that belonged to a famous pilot who fought in the war against the Galactic Empire. That was when she heard an electronic squeal. That sound caused her to stand up and rips off her helmet. Continuing to hear the electronic squeal, she hurries to grab her Quarterstaff and runs up the dune sand. There she finds BB-8, who had been caught in a net by a small brutish desert tyrant named Teedo. Teedo had a strange sense of identity that led him to refer to himself as 'Teedo', and enjoyed to ride on his own Luggabeast. BB-8 beeped madly, struggling to free himself, and had been trying to fight back against Teedo.
"Tal'ama parqual!" Rey shouted in Teedo's language.
Teedo and BB-8 stop fighting and go silent when they heard her voice. At the same time, they turn around a half beat, but Teedo yells something back as sign of him threatening to harm her. BB-8's head swivels to him, then back to Rey, like watching a tennis match.
"Parqual zatana!" Rey yelled angrily as she runs to them, pulling a knife from her pouch. Rey starts CUTTING BB-8 out of the netting. Teedo freaks out and continues to yell until Rey suddenly stands, turns to the Teedo and responds fiecerly. "NOMA!"
Teedo barks at her, and then heads off on his beast. This prompts BB-8 to start beep-yelling at the departing bully, provocatively.
"Shhhh." Rey shushed.
BB-8 stays quiet, and the two watch Teedo head off. Finally, BB-8 beeps a question just as Rey kneels to him.
"That's just Teedo." Rey said about him. "Wants you for parts. He has no respect for anyone." She looks at BB-8's antenna. "Your antenna's bent." She then straightens the antenna and asked. "Where do you come from?"
BB-8 beeps as a sign of him speaking to her.
"Classified. Really? Me too. Big secret." Rey smiles and points to the horizon. "Niima Outpost is that way, stay off Kelvin Ridge. Keep away from the Sinking Fields in the north, you'll drown in the sand." She stands up to leave, but BB-8 starts to roll after her as he beeps. She turns sharply and stops. "Don't follow me. Town is that way."
BB-8 didn't want to go alone since he was too scared on who to trust, but since Rey saved him from Teedo, he saw that she was perfect inhabitant for him to trust. He beeps again as a sign that he wants to stay with her for the night.
"No!" Rey refused and heads off again.
Finally he beeps to her - something sweet this time. That he is alone, scared, has no one else. This makes her stop. She turns and looks at him. Not liking him, Rey decided not to abandon him and changed her mind by making a gesture of her head which says reluctantly, 'Come on'. BB-8 quickly moves to her, and two head off together.
"In the morning, you go." Rey said.
BB-8 beeps as a sign of saying 'thank you'.
"You're welcome." Rey sighed in ignorance.