After retreating inside from the First Order star destroyer, I went over to the stolen supplies to look for some food rations. "Well, don't expect the First Order food rations to be any good."

"I don't," Poe said, smiling. "I would much rather have some food rations from the Resistance."

While we sat down and ate the tasteless rations, we talked a bit.

"So I wonder why the First Order came back," I pondered. "It's not like this planet has much for them."

"It has people to enslave and mines for resources," Poe explained. "It may look like a desolate rock, but it could be valuable to them. That's why the Resistance came, to free its people."

"And for the resources?"

"That too."

We ate in silence for a while. Eventually he said, "I guess the arrival of the First Order is lucky."

I pondered this thought for a bit. "We could steal a ship."

He nodded.

We planned our mission through the night and decided to do it the next evening. Dawn was breaking when we decided to get to sleep before our mission. Poe bunked on the couch and I went to my small, cozy bedroom. When I woke up it was evening, just as planned. Man I could sleep hard.

I went out to where Poe slept and found him cleaning his blaster rifle. He saw my come out and gave me a huge smile. "I assume you don't need a gun?" he asked.

"No," I responded. "I'll manage with my lightsaber."

We loaded up packs with supplies that we would possibly need and headed out. The First Order had set up their base in the center of the town, the place would be crawling with stormtroopers. BB-8 rolled along side Poe's ankles while we were walking into town, making a constant scraping noise to fill the silence. The town seemed to have retreating into their homes or fled in whatever way they could to escape the iron fist that was the First Order.

Poe and I set up the charges in an empty house next to the base and set them up to explode in ten minutes. We quietly made our way to the other side of the base, keeping our heads down and treading lightly. The plan wasn't unique in any sense, but it would probably work. Stormtroopers would be sent to the other side of the base to investigate the explosion while we work our way in through the other side. The other side probably wouldn't be completely deserted, but it would be easier to get past a few guards rather than many. Poe and I hunkered down behind a small building on the edge of the base while waiting for the charge to detonate.

"So how did you become a Jedi?" asked Poe, making conversation to pass the time.

I took a breath. "When I was eleven I was gifted this lightsaber by the force ghost of Mace Windu in a temple not too far from here. I used to have friends, most younger than me, nine of us in total. All of them were orphans due to the First Order. We were more or less a gang, but instead of pillaging the common folk we pillaged the First Order instead. As the oldest I protected them, I kept them fed and sheltered. I was forced to learn the ways of the Force to protect them. One by one they were picked off by the First Order, some were imprisoned and tortured and others were executed."

My eyes were starting to water as I told my story. Poe's face showed compassion. "They were the only family I ever had, as I never knew my blood family. We did everything together and it was our biggest goal to join the Resistance someday. But of course by the time I was old enough to take a job they were all dead."

Silence fell between us for a while. Then Poe spoke softly, "I've always believed in the force."

Suddenly the ground shook as the charges detonated and the shock wave passed over the building we were hiding behind. Some strong stuff those First Order explosives were. We emerged from our hiding spot and took off towards the gate at a run. The guards saw us and started firing their blasters at us. I deflected their blasts as Poe aimed two well-aimed blasts at their torsos. They both fell and the gate was clear.

We ran into the base and headed straight for the shuttles. The base did seem clear, our distraction must have worked. Idiots. Right as we were entering a shuttle of our choice, not like there was much as all the shuttle were the freaking same, blast fire started pelleting us.

Poe returned fire as we retreated into the ship. "Go!" I yelled at him. "Start the ship, I'll deflect what fire I can!" He nodded and ran into the ship with BB-8 with him, and almost immediately the ship's engines started to rumble. I kept deflecting blaster fire with my lightsaber as the ship took off. I reached into my pack and grabbed some thermal detonators and threw them down into the base just for good measure. Explosions riddled the base as I stepped into the ship as the door closed. We were home free. Hopefully.