Both Finn and Rey darted for the cockpit, where they looked out the window of the ship to see a large Baleen-class heavy freighter looming over them.
"It's the First Order. . ." Finn murmured to himself. "What can we do?" He turned to Rey.
Rey took a moment to think, and immediately had an idea.
"There are secret compartments under the floor in the hall!" Rey remembered.
"Lead the way!"
Rey quickly got up from her seat and escorted Finn towards the cross hall. With Finn's help, she lifted the false floor, revealing a space full of pipes and wiring. Finn then climbed inside the small space and held his hands out to catch BB-8. Rey was about to hand the droid over but noticed BB-8 looking at her then back at Finn.
"It's okay. He's going to get you home." Rey assured the droid.
BB-8 chirped suspiciously, before falling into Finn's arms. The droid's weight made Finn fall onto his back; he groaned in pain.
Rey then crawled into the secret compartment then closed the opening behind her. The three were now in semi darkness, save for the light coming from the grated floor above them.
"Oh no!" Rey exclaimed. "I left all my stuff out in the open!" She realized. "With any luck they'll think we took an escape pod. . ."
The sound of the entry ramp opening could be heard, followed by what sounded like two pairs of feet entering the lounge area. If the First Order had sent only two stormtroopers to board the freighter, dealing with them wouldn't be much of an issue.
"Chewie. . . we're home." Said with a rough voice.
The sound of a wookie roaring could be heard after the man finished speaking, agreeing to what the soldier said.
While these clearly weren't stormtroopers, they could still be trouble for the three, so they remained silent underneath the two's feet. BB-8 spotted a kleek crawling beside the three and rolled back in obvious fear. Finn and Rey both grabbed at the droid to keep him still, then looking up from their hiding space in fear.
The compartment's floorboard was opened, revealing an older man holding a blaster at Finn and Rey. This unknown man had gray hair, a wrinkled face, and wore a dark brown leather jacket with a white shirt underneath. In the pocket of this man's jacket, were three blaster bolts, while hanging from his belt was a silver and bronze lightsaber. Next to this man was a tall blue-eyed wookie wearing a bandolier and holding a bowcaster.
"Where are the others?" The old man asked. "Where's the pilot?"
"I'm the pilot!" Finn said, raising his hands in a surrendering gesture.
"You?" The man said.
The wookie mocked Finn's statement.
"It's true! We're the only ones on board!" Finn protested.
"You can understand that thing?" Rey asked Finn, terrified.
"We're taught Wookieespeak at the academy." Finn lied.
"And that thing can understand you too, so watch it! Come on out of there!" The man ordered, cocking his head to the right.
Finn and Rey crawled out of the compartment, while the wookie reached in and picked up BB-8.
"Where'd you get this ship?"
"Niima Outpost." Rey answered.
"Jakku? That junkyard?" The man said, sounding repulsed. "Told you we should have checked the Western Reaches." He said to his wookie companion. "Who had it? Ducain?"
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Revamped
Science FictionThirty-four years have passed since the conclusion of the Galactic Civil War. During that time, thousands of systems once ruled by the dreaded Empire have joined the New Republic, instilling in trillions a new age of peace. However, a threat from th...
