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Our group runs opposite the direction of the TIE fighters

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Our group runs opposite the direction of the TIE fighters. Even still, they must spot us, because they're gaining quickly.

"There." Poe says, pointing to a pair of speeders. "Those speeders."

Poe slides under one speeder and I slide under the other. I open up a hatch and pull out wires before reconnecting them somewhere else.

"How do the two of you know how to do that?" Finn asks, looking between Poe and I.

"I'm Han Solo's daughter. He passed on some skills besides piloting." I say with a smirk. I close the hatch just as the speeder powers up.

"No need to worry. I made it!" C3PO says. There's a ruckus behind us as Aki-Aki realize we're stealing their speeders.

"We gotta go." Poe says quickly, closing the hatch of his speeder. Rey, BB-8, BB-12, and Chewie pile into one speeder while C3PO, Finn, Poe, and I climb into the other.

Poe presses the pedal down and we go flying forwards, leaving the Aki-Aki in our wake. They're still yelling angrily.

We haven't even been driving for two minutes when there's sudden shots of green blasts. Everybody ducks and I reach for my blaster.

I turn around and see two stormtrooper speeders carrying two passengers each. Rey and I both turn around and shoot. Our blasts don't hit seeing as Poe is swerving and Rey is the one who's supposed to be driving.

Chewie also pulls out his crossbow blaster, but his shots bounce right off the speeders. I let out a yell in frustration and turn around.

"They're speeders have shields." I yell over the wind. Poe glances back at me.

"How's that even possible?"

I shrug and reload my blaster. "Who knows. It's just more of an inconvenience-" I'm cut off my the speeders launching their back troopers into the air.

The troopers each press a button and they stay elevated in the air. Thin streams of smoke emanate from their backpacks.

"Oh! They fly now!" 3PO says in surprise.

Finn turns around. "They fly now?" He yells at Poe.

Poe glances back before focusing his attention of driving. His hair is whipping everywhere in the wind. "They fly now." He says angrily.

I tie my hair back in a ponytail, and ready another shot at the now flying stormtroopers.

Up ahead of us is a quarry. It splits into two different directions. Rey takes the right and we take the left.

Our passage is narrow, causing only one speeder to follow us. No flying troopers anymore.

"We lose 'em?" Poe asks.

"Looks like it!" I yell back.

"Excellent job sir!" 3PO says excitedly.

The speeder, obviously fed up with us, fires it's blasters at us. The blast ricochets through the whole quarry walls.

"Terrible job sir!" C3PO says. I roll my eyes and head to the back of the speeder, firing at the trooper.

"Careful Wren!" Poe yells over his shoulder. I ignore him and focus on shooting. I feel Finn walk up beside me. In his hands he holds a rope with a hook on the end.

He throws it with all his might and the rope goes soaring to the ground.

"Well that worked." I say sarcastically. Finn taps my shoulder and I watch as the rope and hook get caught in the troopers speeder wheel.

Finn and I both take the rope and wrap it around the center pole of our speeder.

"Poe." I say. He glances back and sees what we're doing. He pulls a lever and we begin to spin, causing the trooper speeder to slam into the quarry wall and explode.

Everyone on our speeder lets out a whoop.

"Right ho!" 3PO says.

We speed past the burning wreckage and out of our small quarry passage. We meet up with Rey.

She glances over and points at a small hunk of rock. On it sits an old ship.

"Ochi's ship!" She yells excitedly. Then, she mutters something to herself.

"Rey?" Poe yells. "Did you get all of them?"

In response, a green blast shoots down and Rey's speeder blows up. This throws her, Chewie, and both BB units into the air.

"BB-12!" I scream. The next thing I know, our speeder is blown up and I'm soaring forward.

I land in what feels like pebbles. They're small, hard, and bite into my skin uncomfortably.

I sit up, my blaster still in my hand. The trooper flies over us, as if he's taunting us. I let out a growl and raise my blaster.

I shoot at him once, twice, three times. The rest of our group follows. The third time, I shoot, I hit his jet pack.

The trooper flies backward, upside down, left, right, and eventually he slams into the quarry wall with a boom. He explodes into a fiery mess.

The blast throws everyone backwards. I try to sit up, only to find myself sinking.

"The hell is this?" Poe asks, kicking his boots against the pebbles. BB-8 and BB-12 both try to roll through the pebbles. BB-12 lets our a nervous beep.

"Sinking fields." Rey yells. "Try to grab onto something."

"Will this agony ever end?" C3PO says sadly.

"Poe!" I yell out. I reach for his hand.

"Wren!" He says, reaching for my hand. We're too far apart. "Come on!" He yells, right as he sinks into the ground.

I let out a cry and hear BB-8 beeping nervously.

"BB-8!" Rey yells. "No!"

The last thing I hear is- "Rey! Rey, I never told you-"

And then both Finn and I are sucked underneath.

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Poe's little kicking while he tries to get away is the cutest, idk why🤧

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