Tight on Finn's face, his eyes start to open after the terrible crash, and goes from unconscious to terrified. Taking a moment to sit himself up from the crash, he looks around and finds himself in the middle of an epic desert. He was back on Jakku, the place where the First Order had launched an attack on one of the planet's settlements and never showed mercy to the defenseless villagers. Finn never wanted to go back to Jakku for this, but since Poe wanted to, he had to deal with it. He turns around and sees a back chute that was blowing in the wind. Seeing a scattered debris, Finn runs over to the spot and see if Poe was alright.
"Poe! Poe!" Finn called out to him as he scrambles over the massive dune to the TIE Fighter that was smoking and on fire. He thinks he sees Poe's arm's arm, as if he's trying to wave out for someone to find him. Finn quickly pulls on it, but he finds out that it is just Poe's jacket. He throws that off and tries to find a way in - even a way to look inside, but since smoke and heat was all around, it was just impossible. He continues to call out for him. "Poe! POE!"
Suddenly, the TIE started to sink to the groundy sand, and Finn found himself surrounded in quick sand.
"POE! POE!" Finn called out to him again, but there was no response.
It becomes clear that if Finn doesn't get away, he will soon be next to be consumed by the quick sand. Believing that Poe was dead, Finn had to scamper away from the TIE Fighter as it continues to sink into the sand, and a moments, it was gone. Finn was out of breath, horrified, disoriented, scared, exhausted and defeated. Now he was all alone in the middle of the desert, and without something to keep him alive, he would soon die from the heat.
As he made his move across the endless dunes behind him, Finn removed pieces of his stormtrooper gear, and used Poe's flight jacket to cover him from the heat. Although, he was very exhausted from all the walking, but he continued his trek across the endless, sandy nothingness.
Parched and losing hope, he walks to the edge of a massive dune and looks out into the epic valley below. Miles ahead, his luck began to turn from bad to good when he saw Niima Outpost.
Outside Niima Outpost, Rey and Amelia arrive with BB-8.
"So this droid belongs to a man?" Amelia asked her. "Who would that be?"
"I don't know." Rey replied. "He says he's classified."
"Well, I know all about waiting, but if he's classified, then maybe he is worth something." Amelia stated.
"Don't even think of it, he's not for sale." Rey responded sharply.
"Sale or not, I just want to leave this planet and start a new career of some sort." Amelia said unhappily and walked away from her and BB-8, but then she makes a stop and rather then turning, she sighed in response. "Look, I don't want to leave you. The thing is... when I first met you, you were alone, just like I was when I came here." She turns around to look at her with a sad expression on her face. "We were like sisters. We looked out for one another, we cared for each other, and shared everything."
"Yes we were, but... I can't leave." Rey said. "I know my family will come back for me... one day." She tries to force a smile, but can't, really.
"Then where are they?" Amelia asked and looked at her for seconds. "Rey, it has been over ten years since your family had left you on this planet. Even if someone is accidentally left behind from a family, it takes more than a week or a month for them to come back. This was something that my mother told me before she died." She shakes her head a bit, and didn't want to upset her. "Rey, I don't think they're coming back."
"Don't you dare say that!" Rey exclaimed with a few tears in her eyes. "My family loved me, and they will always do so when they return."
"Then why do you want to waste your life here when you can start a new one with me?" Amelia asked her that. "Why?"
"It doesn't matter." Rey responded. "I'm staying."
"Fine." Amelia nodded her head. "Have it your way then. If you want to stay, then so be it. I won't stop you. As a matter-of-fact, I won't because I'm leaving."
Elsewhere, Rey stands with BB-8 in front of Unkar Plutt, at his window. He reviews her goods, but then he glances quickly at BB-8.
"These five pieces are worth... let me see here... one half portion." Unkar replied.
Rey was displeased by this and objects. "Last week they were a half portion each."
Unkar leans forward and asked. "What about the droid?"
"What about him?" Rey asked, awkward, but curious.
"I'll pay for him." Unkar offered to buy the droid from her and placed a few dozen bags filled with portions. "Sixty portions."
Stunned by this, Rey takes a moment and turns to BB-8, who didn't quite like the idea at all. She looks at Unkar and replied. "Actually... the droid's not for sale." She turns to BB-8. "Let's go."
Watching her go with the droid, Unkar was furious with his with dark eyes and picks up a communicator as he slams the service window door shut. "Follow the girl and get that droid."
Sun-scorched and exhausted, Finn arrived at Niima Outpost and stumbled out of from the desert and went into the Outpost in search for water and food to gain his energy. In a heatstroke daze, he moves past enormous old ship parts, merchants, scavengers, and tented stalls.
"Water... water... water." Finn murmured to himself until he turns his head to the left and spots a water trough where a slobbering Happabore was drinking. Finn moves to it, uses his hands to desperately drink the clean water.
Across the large marketplace, Rey was in search to buy some food for tonight, but she didn't want to leave BB-8 behind since she cared for him and wanted to wait patiently for his master to pick him up.
Just then, two of Unkar's thugs approach and stop her. One clearly tells her that they're taking the droid. BB-8 reacts nervously as Rey tries to resist him, but that was when the other one pulls a sack over BB-8 - one pulls a SACK over BB-8 while the other grabs Rey's arm in the tussle.
Finn, while still drinking, was pushed over by the happabore and fell to the ground, but that was when he turns to look when he heard the sound of crashing. He sees, through the tents, saw Rey been held by one of Unkar's thugs. He moves up closer to help the young woman being accosted, but then he stops suddenly when he watches her fight back against Unkar's thugs. Back, scrappy, and feral, Rey kicks, bites, and hits the thug very hard with her staff. Finn is taken aback as she defeats the attackers, who hit the sand, hard.
After defeating the thugs, Rey moves to the covered BB-8 and pulls the sack off of him. Finn was stunned and couldn't believe his eyes. It was Poe's droid, the one he mentioned to him. Rey talks to BB-8, who suddenly reacts crazily when he sees Finn.
"Who? Him?" Rey replied and turned her eyes directly at him.
Finn was confused when she stared at him with defiant face. Feeling that trouble was about to come to him, Rey begins to charge straight towards him with her quarterstaff in her hand. Realizing he's the target, Finn begins to run away from her through a large marketplace. As he turns a corner and another, he didn't realize that Rey got ahead of him and slams him to the ground with her staff. Finn was on his back, out of breath, and freaked out after Rey struck him with her staff.
"What's your hurry, thief?" Rey asked threateningly as she held her staff on him.
"What-? Thief?" Finn exclaimed.
That was when BB-8 rolls up fast to Finn, and used a welding arm telescope from his body and shocks him.
"OW!" Finn cried in pain from the shock. "HEY!"
"The jacket! This droid says you stole it!" Rey claimed furiously.
"Look, I've had a pretty messed up day." Finn said. "So I'd appreciate it you stop accusing me for..." His sentence was cut off when BB-8 zapped him again, causing him to snap even louder. "OW! STOP IT!"
"Where'd you get it?" Rey demanded. "It belongs to his master."
Finn looks at her and then the agitated droid. His mind was racing and tried to put it all together. The only this was he was heavily frustrated from the running he did and sighed heavily once he was ready to respond. Making a hard decision, he had no choice but to tell her the truth.
"It belonged to Poe Dameron." Finn finally answered and turned to BB-8. "That was his name, right?
BB-8 was surprised by that Finn knew the droid's master and turned to look at Rey by making a beeping sound.
"Are you sure?" Rey asked BB-8 and nodded until she focuses her attention on Finn. "Tell us more."
"He was captured... by the First Order." Finn went on. "I helped him escape but our ship crashed." He turns to BB-8 with bad news. "Poe didn't make it."
BB-8 was very sad to hear the terrible news of his master's death and rolled off to be alone.
"Look, I tried to help him, and I'm really sorry." Finn apologized to the droid as he continued to roll away.
"So you're with the Confederation?" Rey asked, wanting to know if he was part of the resistance movement that fought against the First Order.
Finn's mind raced again, but he made an easy decision to lie.
"Obviously." Finn replied immediately and kept his secret hidden from her. "Yes, I am. I'm with the Confederation, yeah." Then he whispers to her as if he didn't want anyone to hear what he said. "I'm with the Confederation."
Rey lowers her staff, allowing Finn to stand himself up. She studies him and said. "Well I've never met a Confederation fighter before."
"Well, this is what we look like." Finn said shyly. "Some of us. Others look different."
"BB-8 says he's on a secret mission, he has to get back to your base."
"Apparently he's carrying two navigational maps." Finn explained. "One leads to the Jedi, and the other to Luke Skywalker. The First Order is after these fragments and I can't let them have either of them. My job is to make sure he's brought back to his base."
Rey turns to him, concerned, curious, and asked quietly. "Did you just say Luke Skywalker? I thought he was a myth."
"Well it turns out he's not." Finn said. "He's real."
"Have you met him before?" Rey asked curiously and excited.
"No." Finn answered by shaking his head.
Just then BB-8 beeps madly at something that he just spotted outside the tent.
"What is it?" Rey asked as she moves to where he is and peeks around a tent corner. Now Finn moves
to see.
At a distance, a squad of FO Stormtroopers led by Salle Serpa were talking to two of Unkar's thugs, who were beaten by Rey for trying to snatch BB-8 and bring it back to Unkar. One of them points to where the droid was. When Salle and his squad spot the droid, Finn urgently grabs her hand and heads for the tents.
"What are you doing?" Rey exclaimed.
"Come on!" Finn yelled.
"Stop them!" Salle shouted.
The stormtroopers open fire, sending numerous laser blasts that were ripping past Finn, Rey, and BB-8.
Finn continues to hold Rey's hand while the three were zigzagging through a maze of tents during the firefight.
"Come on, BB-8!" Finn shouted to the droid who was rolling behind him and Rey.
"Let go of me!" Rey yelled.
"No, we gotta move!" Finn exclaimed.
Rey pulls her hand back from him as she growls angrily. "I know how to run without you holding my hand!" She turns to BB-8. "BB-8 stay close! This way!
Now Finn and BB-8 follow Rey just when another blast missed them. As they emerge out of the tent, they suddenly stop when Salle and his four his troops block them from escaping.
"There you are, traitor." Salle said, raising his weapon and taking aim on him. "You and that droid are coming with us."
Before Salle and his troops made their attempt, two of Salle's troopers were suddenly lifted upwards into the air.
"What the...?" One of the stormtroopers cried.
The two stormtroopers crash into each other and land on the sandy ground, knocked out. Salle and the two stormtroopers turn around and saw that the person who did was Amelia.
"Hello, boys." Amelia grinned, and that moment, she takes out her lightsaber and ignites it.
"I don't believe it." Rey breathed in awe.
Before the two stormtroopers were about to open fire at her, Salle raised his sign as an order for them to stand down, but that gave Rey, Finn, and BB-8 a chance to flee in time.
"Stand down!" Salle ordered in a rough tone and slowly walked towards her. "I'll take care of this Jedi myself!"
"Make your move." Amelia said.
"You think your that tough to take me down little girl!" Salle roared at her as he takes off his helmet to reveal his naked face towards her. "I've trained myself to combat Jedi for a long time."
From behind his back was a Electrostaff. Electrostaffs were electronic melee weapons that were resistant to the energy outpourings of a lightsaber and were fully equipped with electromagnetic pulse-generating tips. Once he activated his electrostaff, he was fully ready to engage her.
"YEAAHHHHH!" Salle roared in fury as he charged towards her.
Amelia made a high leap and somersault to avoid his first strike, and openly finally fights him.
Inside the bridge of the Finalizer, Admiral Themion approaches General Hux and Maber Yeff.
"Sir, one of our squads reported that there is a Jedi on the planet." Themion reported to them.
"A Jedi?" Hux responded suddenly. "Here on Jakku? Why would a Jedi be so far from its people in the Inner Rim?"
"What is the Jedi look like?" Maber asked the admiral.
"Human." Themion replied hastily. "She is located at Niima Outpost where the droid has been spotted."
"The Confederation must've sent that Jedi to retrieve the droid." Hux believed. "We can't let her get her hands on it."
"Admiral, ready my ship." Maber ordered him. "I'll take care of this personally, and send the report to my apprentice."
"I suppose you'll kill her?" Hux wondered about that.
"No." Maber answered. "I want to bring her in alive. She might prove to be useful in knowing the whereabouts of the Jedi's secret base."
Back at Niima Outpost, Amelia continues to fight Salle with her lightsaber while the sadistic major used his electrostaff.
"I'm gonna enjoy ripping you to pieces, Jedi scum." Salle growled fiercely.
"Well I hate to disappoint you." Amelia replied.
Salle laughed wickedly, and swung his electrostaff to strike her down, but everytime, Amelia avoids his strikes.
"Hold still you little rat!" Salle roared in fury.
Amelia didn't have time for this, so she immediately Force pushed the nasty Stormtrooper major into a tent. The two stormtroopers open fire on her, but Amelia deflected each shot with her lightsaber and struck down the two stormtroopers.
Several stormtroopers had been searching around and found no sign of Finn, Rey, and BB-8.
"Call in the air strike!" One of the stormtroopers ordered.
Rey, Finn, and BB-8 manage to duck into another tent and keep themselves hidden. The three move through rusty ware and take cover.
"They're shooting at both of us." Rey said.
"Yeah, they saw you with me!" Finn yelled. "You're marked!"
"Well, thanks for that." Rey replied sarcastically.
"I'm not the one who chased you down with a stick!" Finn exclaimed and tried to search for weapons in this tent. "Does anyone have blasters around here?"
Rey turns to BB-8 and asked the little droid. "Are you okay?"
Finn quiets her with a gesture when he heard something from outside. It was the sound of TIE fighters that were flying towards the outpost. Alarmed, Finn quickly grabs her hand again and pulls her away.
"Stop taking my hand!" Rey exclaimed in anger as she was been pulled out from the tent as BB-8 follows them.
As they race from the tent a TIE fighter screams into view from behind the tents, and a second follows close behind it. The second TIE fires at them, sending Rey and Finn flying and BB-8 rolling.
While the two TIE fighters continue to scream over the town, the explosion throws sand and debris fifty feet into the air.
Rey was thrown hard to the ground, feeling rattled and afraid. Then she turns to see Finn lying unconscious. She scrambles to him, rolls him over.
"Hey." Rey whispered as he shook him.
Finn gasped when he awoke suddenly and turns to face Rey with a frightful expression on his face. "Are you okay?"
And that very question touched her, having never in her life been asked it.
"Yeah." Rey answered and extends her hand. "Follow me."
Feeling grateful in relief, Finn takes her hand and pulls himself up.
Elsewhere in the town, many townspeople were running away in fear as Amelia was running and jumping on crates and roofs to avoid blaster fire from several stormtroopers. Still having her lightsaber ignited, she continued to deflect each and every shot.
"Don't let her escape!" One of the stormtroopers shouted.
Locals continue to run amok as TIE fighters dive downwards to shoot Rey, Finn and BB-8, who were sprinting as fast as they could just as the blaster explosions were getting closer and closer. Rey, with her staff strapped to her back, leads the way as she, Finn and BB-8 race into the spaceport.
Finn glances back at the two TIE fighters that were shooting them and yelled. "We can't outrun them!
Rey points to a parked, four-engine SHIP ahead. "We might in that quad-jumper!"
"We need a pilot!" Finn yelled back.
"We've got one!" Rey replied loudly.
"You?" Finn exclaimed in surprise and turned his head quick to face a large starship and indicated loudly. "What about that ship?"
"That one's garbage." Rey said.
The three quickly run for the jumper, but one of the passing TIE fighters fire at it, causing the Quadjumper to blow up and preventing them from escaping the planet.
Rey, coming to a quick stop and replied. "The garbage'll do!"
She turns and runs back as Finn and BB-8 follow as they all run toward the piece of junk. The junk ship was a YT-1300 light freighter that was designed by the Corellian Engineering Corporation. As the two TIE fighters continue to bank around again, Finn, Rey and BB-8 run up the ramp of the semi-tarped freighter. Once they were inside the ship, she hits a control and the door descends closed as she races to the cockpit.
"Gunner position's down there." Rey pointed.
"Y'ever fly this thing?" Finn asked as he climbs down.
Rey tosses her staff aside, jumps into the pilot's seat, and frantically flips switches just as BB-8 rolls in behind her as the
engines whine to life.
"No! This ship hasn't been flown in years!" Rey replied as loud as she could.
Finn buckles into the gunner seat, and to his shock, the seat whips to the left which startled him. He grabs the controls to
steady himself and muttered. "I can do this, I can do this..."
Rey bucks herself up and pulls the yoke as she mutters too. "I can do this, I can do this-
The freighter's engines manage to light up bright and rises wildly, however, it tarps fly off, spins and tilts, and slams into and crumbles the town's archway.
From the tents, Unkar Plutt saw what was going on and runs out to find that his ship was been stolen.
"HEY!" Unkar yelled. "THAT'S MIIIIIIINE!"
The freighter blasts away, but the two TIE fighters start chase it fast.
As Rey pilots the freighter and headed for the sky, Finn swings into frame and tried to work on the guns quickly.
"Whoa! Hey! Oh! Stay low! Stay low!" Finn called to her.
"WHAT?" Rey exclaimed.
"Stay low! It confuses their tracking!" Finn called back.
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Rey asked nervously.
That was when Amelia stood behind her.
"Of course that's a good idea." Amelia said.
"Amelia!" Rey gasped in surprise. "How did you get in?"
"Just before you two did." Amelia answered and sat down next to her. "Look, let's just focus in avoiding these nasty little buggers and get off this blasted planet while we still can. Now let go of the yoke."
For a crazy instant, Rey let's go of the yoke, allowing it to stretch to the co-pilot controls.
"BB-8, hold on!" Amelia said to the droid.
Amelia and Rey work together to get the switches on. Amelia quickly returns to the yoke, stabilizing the ship, and didn't seem afraid of this next move.
"Okay, we're going low!" Amelia called.
Behind the Falcon, the freighter dramatically banks at an upward arc, upside-down, and then swoopre perilously low across the sand while the two TIE fighters scream past the ship. In the cylindrical corridor, BB-8 rolls to the ceiling, and Amelia looks back for a flash as the TIE Fighters pass.
"Finn, what are you doing back there?" Rey called to him. "Are you ever gonna fire back?
Finn flicks the switches and once they were on, the gun targeting lights up.
"I'm working on it!" Finn called back to her. "Are the shields up?"
"Well its not so easy without a co-pilot." Amelia said.
Finn struggles with the gun controls and sweeps his chair. "Try sitting in this thing!" He yelled until he finally fires back at the two incoming TIE fighters, but his shots miss, and the TIE fighters arc back in pursuit and scream towards the freighter and fired once again.
"We need cover, quick!" Amelia shouted and hits the switches.
"Good, because we're about to get some." Rey said to her.
"Let's hope." Amelia murmured to herself.
The freighter speeds through a rock formation and took out a chunk and the two TIE fighters were still in pursuit as they fired at the ship. The freighter banks so hard, causing the edge of the ship to rip a line in the sand as it turns towards the Graveyard.
BB-8 was not having as much fun during the pursuit and quickly extends magnetic cables to brace himself in a corridor. Finn was busy firing at the TIE fighters, but narrowly missing them.
"Damn it!" Finn exclaimed.
Amelia and Rey work together to maneuver the ship deeper into the graveyard.
Finn swoops into frame and fires as he mutters to himself. "Come on... come on..."
At last, he finally hits and shatters the first TIE fighter which crashes into the debris. Three scavengers witnessed what had happened and they run over to the debris to consume a new bounty.
"Nice shot!" Amelia called to him in remark.
"I'm getting pretty good at this!" Finn laughed gratefully.
"We still got one more to avoid." Amelia informed.
The freighter was still been pursued by the last TIE fighter, and slaloms through the massive wreckage of a grazing old ship that fought for the Rebel Alliance. The TIE fighter keeps on firing and managed to hit the freighter's lower turret, causing the ship to spin and jam into a forward position.
"Rey, the cannon's stuck in forward position, I can't move it!" Finn called to her. "You gotta lose 'em!"
"Right!" Rey and Amelia replied together.
"Get ready!" Rey shouted.
"Okay! For what?" Finn asked, confused.
Rey pilots the ship up and into the rear of a crashed Super Star Destroyer. The TIE fighter follows the freighter inside and kept on firing. Inside the ship, Finn peers out the window and realizing where they were.
"ARE WE REALLY DOING THIS?" Finn yelled deeply in shock.
Once the two ships slalom through the debris of the giant ship, the Corellian freighter grazed on one side and then the other. Rey, scared, girds herself as she quickly runs out of space in the wreck.
"Oh no." Rey breathed.
Just as the TIE pilot gets a lock, Amelia yanks the yoke and the freighter makes a hard right turn out of the Super Star Destroyer. Eventually, Rey cuts down the power and flips the ship so back, it faces the front. Finn can see the pursuing TIE fighter and fires. The TIE fighter was too late to move away from the blaster fire and was finally destroyed.
"Whooo!" Finn cheered. "YEAH!"
With both the TIE fighters destroyed, Amelia and Rey move the freighter away from the ship graveyard and disappears into the clouds.