"Those speeders," Poe pointed toward the forms of transportation around the corner of the sandstone. The noise of the festival couldn't snuff out the whizzing of the TIE fighters causing goosebumps to rise on the back of Rey's neck. She'd been in a situation like this too many times.
"I hate desert planets," Finn mumbled, panting almost aggressively as they all began to slow down, coming to a halt. Poe took the lead, sliding under the speeder and onto the sand. Reaching up he began fiddling with the compartmentalised chambers. Rose lurched forward, prepared to help but realised that he had it all sorted out.
"We better go," Rey stressed as she focused on the oncoming natives wailing about the speeders they were currently stealing. They piled on to both of the speeders with Rose lagging behind as she was out of breath.
"Rose!" Rey exclaimed, holding out her hand to her friend to grab. Doing so, she used her body weight to haul her onto the speeder that's engine began to roar, picking up speed.
The green blasts that shot through the air startled the group, causing Rey to throw her head over her shoulder squinting in an effort to see who was shooting at them. More troopers, great.
Unclipping Hans blaster from her belt in a hurry she turned back, shooting aimlessly at the following enemies. Scrunching her nose up and baring her teeth in an effort to calm her anger she kept relentlessly shooting.
The vehicles the troopers were operating flew upward for a split second, sending them flying through the air with jetpacks attached allowing them to stay afloat.
"Are you kidding?" Rey rhetorically asked, annoyance shown visibly on her features as Rose's mouth opened in surprise. She'd forgotten that her friend had never been out in the field before.
"They fly now?" Threepio exclaimed, panicking slightly as he turned to face the other members on board.
"Of course they do," Poe shot back, keeping his eyes trained on the landscape Infront of him. He verged the speeder off between the canyon mountains as Rey struggled to turn theirs. She ducked for a split second as the rockets launched landed in the sand exploding on contact which threw it into their vision.
"Did we lose them?" Finn exclaimed, moving around the speeder to try and see if they had. His shoulders relaxed once he couldn't see them in his line of sight.
"Looks like it," Poe smugly replied, lips quirked up into a triumphant smirk as he kept his gaze set ahead.
"Excellent job sir," Threepio remarked a split second before a noise rumbled behind them, proving the previous statements to be wrong.
"Terrible job sir," Poe rolled his eyes at the comment, trying to focus on their getaway instead.
The troopers were beginning to gain on the speeder and BB8 beeped frantically to whoever was listening. Chewie held his bowcaster up in defence, awaiting the perfect shot.
"Go ahead," Rose reassured in response to the droid. Picking at the chalk bomb like canister, the droid sent it flying into the air causing an explosion of yellow dust, momentarily stunning the troopers.
"Good job!" Rey called out, keeping one of her hands on the shift stick she turned to awkwardly high-five Rose, blaster in hand.
"Never underestimate a droid," Rose yelled to Rey which caused her to nod, a widespread smile on her lips. Turning the speeder jarringly to the side, she sent blasts into the air and the vehicle and trooper were decimated in seconds.
A green blast caused Finn to fall to the ground, trying to dodge it. A lightbulb went off in his head as his eyes found the rope stored in the back of the speeder. Thinking quickly, he grabbed it throwing it as far as he could into the vehicle behind them.
