Awakening

I catch up to the droid who is next to the woman he was following and the man they were chasing, the man is on the floor and BB8 gives him an electric shock.

"Ow! Hey! What?" The man says in pain and confused.

"BB8?" I say causing the three of them to look at me as I walk into the tent, the woman has her staff raised at the man. BB8 beeps happy to see me. "What's going on here?" I ask looking at the man and the woman. BB8 beeps.

"The jacket, this droid says you stole it" The woman says to the man. I look at him not sure what is going on, yet I recognise the jacket.

"I've had a pretty messed up day alright, so I would appreciate it if you would stop accusing me-" he says annoyed but seemingly trying to be polite.

"Ow! Stop it!" the man shouts at the droid who shocks him again.

"Where did you get it? It belongs to his master" she states.

He looks at the droid and sighs. "It belonged to Poe Dameron, that was his name right?"

BB8's head looked between the woman and I and the man. Who is he? How does he know Poe?

"He was captured, by The First Order, I helped him to escape, but our ship crashed" He looks at the droid before continuing "Poe didn't make it"

BB8 whines and his head droops slightly.

A wave of unease washes over me, Poe, dead? He can't be. I shake my head.

"He can't be dead..." I say not believing it

"I tried to help him I'm sorry" he says regretfully.

BB8 rolls away. To make sure he doesn't go very far I follow him.

"He's not dead BB8, I refuse to believe it" I say simply, it's the only thing keeping me together at this point, not believing it. If he is dead... I don't want to think about it. BB8 starts beeping erratically shouting about the First Order and
racing back to the woman and the man. I look straight ahead and see what he saw, Stormtroopers have just landed I turn to run to join The civilians but I'm joined by BB8 followed by the man and woman.

A few locals point at us and the stormtroopers start shooting while running towards us.

"Run" I say at the same time the man says "Come on"

"What are you doing?" I turn to see the man has grabbed the woman's hand

"Run, go!" I say and start shooting back at the troopers as the two civilians start running.

"Come on BB8" the woman shouts. The troopers take cover and I turn and run after the droid. Explosions go off behind us as we are narrowly missed by the bolts. I get hit in the arm by a blast and fall, my momentum causes me to roll and I quickly get
up and keep running.

"Come on we've gotta' move" The man says not looking back

"I know how to run without you holding my hand" She says and yanks her hand from his grip.

"BB8 stay close" She shouts "This way"

We take cover in a tent, I stay close to the door flap keeping an eye out for the troopers.

"They're shooting at all of us" I feel my head throbbing painfully and I can't focus on anything other than my head and my wounds. I close my eyes hissing a little.

"Doesn't anyone have blasters around here?!" I hear the man yell, as I refocus. "They're not following us" I say looking outside wondering what they're up to since it seems like they've stopped following us.

"We've got to get away from here" I state

"Are you okay?" I hear her ask, I turn around and notice she's talking to BB8, he shakes his head beeping and then the man moves over to them.

"Shh" he says listening.

There's a slight whirring sound getting closer.

"Move!" I shout

"Stop taking my hand" the woman complains as the man again grabs her hand and drags her out of the tent. We get blown forward as the tent we were in explodes as TIE Fighters swoop overhead

I watch as they circle back around and I grumble painfully

"Everyone okay?" I ask as I lie on my back for a moment I'm almost sure this is some sort of payback for disobeying orders, first crashing then finding out Poe is dead and about to end up that way also it seems. My ears are ringing from the explosion
as I start to get up they pop and I can hear what's going on

"Follow me" I hear the woman say as she helps up the man before starting to run, he then helps me up and we rush after the woman, BB8 close behind us.

Sand explodes covering us in hot showers of dust, I wince as the hot grains touch my already sand covered wound.

"Come on BB8" I call looking back at the droid as we run to where the ships and speeders are parked.

"we can't outrun them!" the man says

"We might, in that quad jumper" she says pointing to a small ship

"We need a pilot!"

"We've got one" she says meaning herself

"You" he says surprised

"What about that ship?" He says pointing to a much larger ship off to the side

"That one's garbage" she replies

We stop as the ship we were heading for gets blown up

"We don't have a choice!" I say stating the obvious

"The Garbage will do" We turn and run to an old ship that looks badly aged and not very well looked after We run aboard and she tells us where the guns are, once on-board this seems oddly familiar. The man goes down and I climb up to the upper gun
controls.

"You ever fly this thing?" He asks

"No, this ship hasn't flown in years" I get in the seat for the cannon just as she makes the ship take off.

We slide along the ground on the ships side.

"How much pilot training have you had?" I ask just as we break through the arch "None" She shouts back

"What?!"I say concerned for our lives "We're going to die..." I mumble to myself as we start to fly into the atmosphere.

"Wait, hold on, stay low" I hear him shout

"What?" She shouts back

"Stay low, It confuses their tracking"

"BB8 Hold on, I'm going low" she calls to the droid.

"Great..." I mumble as I try to get the gun working but it doesn't seem to be powered "My controls aren't working" I say trying to get it started up. I curse under my breath "I'm coming to the cockpit" I say and get out of my seat, I can be more use
there than in a broken if this woman who has had no flying experience is in control of the ship.

I slide down the ladders and start making my way to the cockpit. We spin around causing me to loose my footing and then slide around the hallway bashing against the walls, now levelled out I get back to my feet just to get knocked off them again as
we're shot

"What are you doing back there? Are you ever going to fight back?"

"I'm working on it, are the shields up?"

"Not so easy without a co pilot"

I get up and quickly get to the cockpit and put the shields up before sitting in the seat.

"Shields up" I say as we're hit again, this time the impact is not as bad thanks to the shields, but it still shakes us around a bit.

I press several buttons, re routing power to shields from all un-essential sources.

"We need cover, quick"

"We're about to get some" She replies to the gunner "I hope" I give her a look and she glances at me.

"You're not serious are you?" I ask as I look straight ahead to the wreckage of a star destroyer She manoeuvres through the debris, hitting the occasional bit of rubble.

"Turn, turn, turn, TURN!" I say seeing us heading straight for a wall of scrap metal "Nice shot" she shouts to the gunner who's just taken down one of the TIE's.

We keep weaving in and out of the debris, making it harder for the remaining fighter to get a lock on us. We get hit again causing a few sparks from one of the panels.

"The cannon is stuck in forward position I can't move it you're gonna' have to loose them"

"Get ready"

"You're not seriously considering-"

"Okay. For what?" The gunner asks unable to see what she's planning.

We go inside one of the engines of the downed star ship

"Are we really doing this?" He asks as we go down a narrow tunnel with little room to move.

"They've almost got a lock" I state trying not to look out of the window so I can't see how narrow the passage is getting. We bump around on the sides a little bit, today has turned out to be one hell of a day, if we survive this I am never getting
in a ship this large again unless I'm piloting it.

I look up as I hear her say "Oh no" I can't help but stare at the small gap we're flying directly towards. There's some light shining in from the side of the wreck and she pulls out, but so does the fighter who keeps shooting at us. Suddenly she cuts
all power, the ship teeters forward giving the gunner a good angle to shoot from, taking the opportunity he shoots down the TIE.

The pilot pushes the throttle to full and we pull up almost hitting the ground

"Woah!" The gunner shouts in joyful surprise. Now that the two fighters have been taken out we leave the planet.