【 HOPE 】 ✓

CHAPTER TEN

Octavia never left that one chair for the duration of the ride to Eadu. Once they arrived though, she was thrown out of the seat from impact. Before that, Bodhi was trying to tell Cassian and K2 where to land the ship, but the large amount of rain was making it fairly hard to see anything past ten feet in front of them. K2 was making calculations on how to stay away from the deadly rocks, but Bodhi kept insisting on bringing the ship farther down.

"There! Dock it there!" Bodhi yelled, causing Cassian and K2 to bring the ship down towards the landing bay quickly. Though, nobody noticed the gigantic rock sitting  in the path of where the right wing was flying. Cassian did however see it when it was too late.

"Pull up, pull up!" He yelled, pulling the levers back with as much force as he could muster. K2 copied his actions, but there was no use. The wing smashed into the big boulder and it went flying towards the ground. "Bumpy landing, everybody grab something!" Cassian called out to everyone, but Octavia didn't react in time. The ship slammed into the dirt and she went tumbling backwards, until Baze caught her with his free hand.

Nobody moved for a couple seconds. Octavia brought her hand up to the back of her head and turned to face Baze. "Thank you." She said, gratefully. He nodded his head at her, a small smile on his lips.

"Is everyone okay?" Jyn called out to everyone. A chorus of "yes" came from everybody. Cassian sighed as he stepped from his seat and rushed to the back to get his jacket from the coat hanger. After throwing it on, he was opening the door and rushing outside with anger radiating off of him.

Everyone turned to face Octavia, knowing that she was one of the only people that could get Cassian to calm down. "Don't look at me." She defended, holding her hands up.

Everyone slowly stood up from their sitting positions and walked around, looking for anything of theirs that could have broke in the crash. Nothing of Octavia's broke, which she was very thankful for.

Cassian stomped back into the ship a few minutes after, anger still radiating off of him. "K2, try to get into contact with the base. Bodhi, are there any ships that we could hijack and take?" He asked, looking over at him. Bodhi nodded his head frantically. "Great, come with me and we'll have a look. Hopefully the storm keeps us hidden."

Bodhi slowly walked over to Cassian and followed him outside of the ship. Octavia sighed. "Does he look like a good guy?" Chirrut suddenly asked, out of the blue.

Baze nodded his head. "He has a face of a friend."

"Who are you talking about?" Octavia asked, looking over at them with furrowed eyebrows.

"Captain Andor." Baze replied, matching her gaze.

"The force courses through someone differently than normal, when they are about to kill." Chirrut clarified.

"His gun was in the holster." K2 piped up from the driver seat.

Octavia sighed loudly. She stood from her seat and grabbed her thick jacket and threw the hood on. "I'm going to go make sure he stays out of trouble." She stated before slipping outside of the ship.

Rain poured down on her hooded head as she blindly walked forward. "Bodhi?" She called out when seeing a figure walking towards her. Sure enough, it was Bodhi. He was rushing towards the ship, almost not noticing her. "Bodhi!" She tried again. This time, he stopped in his tracks and looked at her. "Where's Cassian?"

He pointed up the mountain in response. "We went up. He said he was just looking, but I don't believe any word of that."

Octavia nodded her head and sent him a smile before rushing off in the direction that Bodhi pointed at. It wasn't good directions, but she followed them nevertheless.

Sure enough, after a couple minutes of walking, she noticed Cassian lay in between two large rocks. His gun was aiming at something on the large platform in front of them. Octavia rushed to his side and took a seat right beside him. "Cassian." She tried, looking at him with concerned eyes.

"Octavia." He replied back, not even looking up at her.

"I know what you're about to do. Please think over the consequences of your actions."

"I did my thinking. The rebellion comes before anything else." He snapped back, this time looking at her. She let out a loud sigh before looking at the platform. Many people were standing there, talking away. Due to distance, Octavia could barely make out any faces. Cassian glanced up at her, "I can not do it." He said, more to himself than her.

"I know the rebellion wanted you to kill Galen Erso. You did the right thing, Cas." She said, not glancing down at him. Though, he was looking up at her. "Where is he, anyway?" Octavia, asked.

Cassian then handed her the small binoculars, to which she pressed against her face. "He's in gray." Cassian muttered, using his gun to get a look himself. Sure enough, Octavia located him fairly quickly. He was talking with Krennic, obviously annoyed with something. A large number of bodies littered the floor directly behind the two men and some guards. Octavia concluding that that was the reason for the dilemma.

Suddenly, something caught her eye. A small figure crouched behind some boxes began moving frantically. Octavia focused the binoculars onto them and gasped when she did. "Jyn's on the platform."

Cassian furrowed his eyebrows before taking the binoculars from her and zooming them in on the small figure. Sure enough, he saw Jyn as well. This made him let out a curse word and take a  small microphone out of his pocket. "K2! Tell the rebels to hold off! Jyn is on that platform!" He yelled into it. K2 and him had a small conversation before he was standing and pulling Octavia to her feet.

"Go back to the ship. They will more than likely need your help."

"I'm not leaving you, Cassian."

"Octavia, please go back to the ship."

"No, I'm coming with you whether you like it or not." She stated before taking off in front of him, towards the platform.

"I do not like it! Not one bit!" He yelled out, running off in her direction.

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The two of them slowly made it to the platform. Though, it was already too late. Rebel ships were constantly flying over head, shooting at any other aircrafts coming at them. The whole platform was up in flames by the time they arrived. Cassian and Octavia searched the platform, shooting any storm trooper in their path. Octavia enjoyed that part the most.

"She's over there!" Cassian yelled, pointing at a small figure crouching over something on the floor. Octavia took off running, dodging any laser beams coming at her. Though, one hit her directly into the shoulder, causing her to cry out in pain and slowed her run down.

"Jyn!" She called, rushing to the small girl. "Hey, listen, we have to go." She said, grabbing Jyn's shoulders and pulling her in the direction of the ship. "We have to go!"

Jyn reluctantly let go of her, now dead, father that laid on the burning platform. Octavia pulled the crying girl off the platform and onto the ship. Cassian met up with both of them and they rushed to where K2 and Bodhi had the stolen ship come flying down.

Octavia helped Jyn up before climbing up onto the ship herself. Cassian later climbed in, followed by Chirrut and Baze. Octavia sat down on the floor of the ship, breathing heavily.

"Almost a mission accomplish." She said.

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this needs to be heavily edited ah

also, sorry the ending came to an abrupt stop. it's like 12am and i have to wake up in a couple hours, so i wanted to just get a new chapter out there.