Just an Ordinary Day

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April adjusted her grip on the compressor.

"OK, you got this! One more time!"

She yanked extra hard, yelling "APRIL O'NEIL!"

The compressor came loose in her hand, and her shout reverberated along the metal walls of the fallen Star Destroyer.

She waited until the last syllable had died away before climbing out. It made her feel less alone.

Scavenging wasn't the best job, she reflected, stuffing her finds in a bag which she tied on her speeder, but it was better than nothing. It was the only thing she couldn't be fired from.

The ride into what could be termed a town, if you were willing to be vague, was uneventful, as usual. April haggled with the trader (one of her old bosses) and got the same lousy price, as usual. She got home and scratched another mark on the wall, as usual. She ate the same tasteless food, wore the same Jupiter Jim helmet, and watched the same sunset, as usual.

April supposed she should be glad her life was calm. Ordinary. Normal. But the only adjective she could think to describe it with was boring. And sad.

It hadn't always been like this. There had been a time, a very brief time, when her world had been green, and her parents (vague, indistinct figures) had been there. And there had been friends, also green, with three fingers and shells, with a rat for a father. (They were never indistinct. They were always crystal clear and sharp.)

But it never did any good thinking about that. April took off the helmet with a sigh. Maybe someday, if she waited long enough, they'd come back. Those were the only things she remembered her parents saying. Just wait, just for a little while, April, and then they'd come back.

But April had been waiting for nine years.

She was startled out of her reverie by sounds of mingled hissing/growling and shouting.

She grabbed her bat and set out to look.

Deego, a scummy scavenger, was trying to drag away just about the cutest yokai April had ever seen.

"HEY!" She yelled. "YOU! Yeah, Deego! Let it go!" Luckily Deego was a coward, and all it required was a threatening shake of her bat for him to leave, muttering.

April untangled the net from the yokai, who leaped into her arms and snuggled into her chest.

"Ahh! What a cute little boy, or girl, or whatever you are!"

It meowed at her. " 'Mayhem'? That's such a cute name! Hey, wait, slow down!" April listened carefully, nodding as Mayhem meowed/barked rapidly.

" 'Leo'? No one around here is called that, but tomorrow we can go look around in town for him!"

As she carried Mayhem back in her arms, April wondered where she had heard that name before. She could almost place it.

Elsewhere

Dale awoke with a snap in the gunner's seat. Trying not to hyperventilate, he unlatched the buckles and tumbled out onto the sands.

He coughed, and remembered Leo.

"LEO!" He yelled.

He scrambled around to the other side fo the fighter, and thrust his arm in through a large hole.

Dale had grabbed Leo's jacket when the fighter began to sink into the sands. He scrambled out of the way and watched, open mouthed, as it sank. And then exploded.

So…that was it, then. Leo was gone. And he was stuck, alone, miles from any life at all.

Dale, still clutching Leo's jacket, (brown, with white fur trimming around the v-neck), set off, in what he hoped was the general direction of an outpost.

Hours passed. Dale discarded his armor, piece by piece, as he walked. Somehow Leo's jacket found it's way onto his back. And just when he thought he was dead, salvation. An outpost! Just up ahead! Maybe-Maybe they would have water! And they did. Even though a large (very large) beast way drinking out of it, Dale didn't care. Even though it tasted like sludge, to Dale it was the best drink in the world.

Dale looked up at the sound of a young, female voice yelling "Let us GO!" He staggered over to go help, but instead found himself watching as a girl with three buns in a row down her head (very unusual) beat up the two guys who'd been grabbing her.

The yokai she was with was staring at him weird, especially at the jacket he was wearing.

The yokai meowed/barked.

"Him?" The girl asked.

The yokai meowed/barked again.

And then the girl charged.

Dale ran.

But the girl was faster. Swinging her bat, she yelled "APRIL O'NEIL!"

She knocked him over.

She pointed the bat at him. "Where'd you get that jacket, huh? Mayhem says it belongs to a friend!"

"I-I…". Dale stuttered. Mayhem bit his arm. "OW!"

"Come on," the girl yelled, "TALK!"

"OK,OK!" Dale rubbed his arm. "Look, the guy who's jacket this is, Leo, right? He was captured by the first order, but I helped him escape, but then we were shot down and Leo…didn't make it."

Mayhem drooped and meowed/barked sadly.

The girl was staring at him. "You're…with the Resistance?"

Dale blinked and made a snap decision. "Yeah! I'm with the Resistance!" He scrambled up and whispered, "I'm with the Resistance."

April said to Mayhem, "He's in the Resistance!"

Mayhem gave Dale a dubious look, and Dale nodded enthusiastically.

Just then they heard someone yell. "Hey! Isn't that the yokai the First Order is looking for?"

The whole market seemed to yell, "GET IT!"

"We gotta run." April said.

Dale had no idea what made him do it, but he grabbed her hand and took off.

"HEY!" April yelled. "Leggo of my hand, you-you…"

"DALE!" Dale yelled. "My name is Dale!"

April yanked her hadn't away. "Well let go Dale!"

They ducked into a tent. While Dale was frantically searching for a blaster, April and Mayhem had a quiet conversation.

"Mayhem says that the First Order is looking for a map to Raphael Hamato, which he has! We've got to get off this planet!"

Dale grabbed her hand again and ran out.

"LET GO!" April yelled.

Mayhem teleported onto Dale's arm and sank his teeth in. "OW! OK OK!"

They made it out of the market and into the landing area, where a couple of ships were parked.

"How about that one?" Dale pointed to a ship, half covered in a tarp.

"That's garbage!" April yelled.

The only other ship was then blown to pieces.

"Actually, the garbage is fine!"

April, Dale, and Mayhem hurriedly boarded the ship under the tarp. It was, upon closer inspection, shaped rather like a shell. A turtle shell.

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