RESISTANCE ━━ k. ren ✓

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You are only 9 when you first find Rey. She's not much younger than you, maybe a couple months or so.

You both were on the verge of losing your sanity. Jakku is a desolate, sandy, good-for-nothing planet. There's no people and there's certainly no food.

You both were good at tinkering. You both were good at finding small places to hide. You both were good at finding valuable pieces of metal to trade to Unkar Plutt, but he never gave you anything over two or three days worth of rations.

Rey took you under her wing. Though she was younger than you, she had lived on the planet longer. When you first met, you saw her as a child, but as you grew up, she became a surrogate mother to you.

Your days were filled with climbing up old starship destroyers, only to slip back down once again. You would try again, just to reach the top, just to stand and watch the horizon stretch on forever and ever.

The two of you grew up together, stayed up with the other during the painful hunger pangs. You scavenged together, told stories of the ferocious war that tore apart the galaxy and then knit it back together. You two, if not sisters, are closer than that. The two of you are almost the same person.

time skip~

As soon as your hands come in contact with the piece of metal, you pull with all your might. Usually things this small are stuck.

As you pull, you feel the rod begin to loosen. You keep pulling until the rod is completely unstuck.

You examine to piece of metal closely. It's pretty thick and has metal engravings all around it, and a red button near the top. There's a hole at the top as well. You peer into it. Empty.

You push the red button and hear the rod make no sound and nothing pops out. You shrug. Could be worth something.

You slide down the rope you threw up early and look around at your surroundings.

There's no sign of Rey.

Maybe she found a good area. You think to yourself.

As you climb out of the starships turbine, you swing the metal rod around pretending it's a lightsaber from all the war stories Rey has told you about. You imagine what color it would be.

"Where did you get that?" A voice behind you asks.

You turn to see Rey.

"In there."

You point at the starships turbine.

"I threw up my grappler until it caught on something. I climbed up the rope and found it stuck underneath some old floorboards."

Rey takes the rod from your hands, frowning.

You watch her face change and she turns and runs back up the sandy dune to the turbine.

"Hey what're you-" you decide to save your breath.

Rey is in one of her spells where she listens and stops for nothing.

You run after her and find Rey already halfway up her rope. You sigh.

You shimmy up after her and reach the top to find Rey kneeling on the old floorboards.

"Rey what are you doing?" You hiss between your teeth.

She ignores you and continues digging in the floorboard you already pulled up.

At last, she straightens up with something clutched in her hand. By the looks of it, it's a blue diamond/crystal thingy. You're not quite sure what it is you're looking at.

"What is that?" You ask in amazement, as Rey holds it up to the broken window and lets the last bit of dying light catch the crystal. It makes blue spots dance all over the floor.

"This-" Rey says, holding out the crystal. "Is a Kyber crystal. Which makes this a lightsaber handle." Rey says, now holding out the metal rod.

You stare in amazement.

"You mean?"

"This thing could give us enough portions to be set for life!"

You can't imagine it. A life without scavenging? It sounds like bliss.

Rey holds out both the crystal and the rod.

"You should do the honors." She says wistfully.

You take both objects from Rey.

"What am I supposed to do?" You're not very into the whole lightsaber thing.

Rey rolls her eyes.

"Put the Kyber crystal inside the lightsaber."

It takes you a couple of minutes, but eventually, you manage to push the blue crystal into the lightsaber. All the while, Rey is standing there impatiently.

"Now ignite it!" Rey says excitedly. She knows she doesn't have to teach you how to do that.

Holding the lightsaber a good six inches from your face, you hesitantly push the red button.

All at once, the saber zaps into life.

It's a dazzling blue color, and you swing it around a couple times.

"I can't believe you found a lightsaber Astrid." Rey says in shock.

She smiles at you and you grin back.

You push the red button again and hear the blue light extinguish.

"We'll turn it in tomorrow." You say.

"Do we have to?" Rey whines.

"I mean, do you want to eat?" You ask her.

"But it's a light. Saber. Astrid, what don't you get?"

"It's dangerous Rey. We'll turn it in tomorrow."

As the two of you trudge home, you feel a sort of happiness settle in your heart.

A lightsaber. You think to yourself. A real lightsaber.

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Somewhere, on a distant jungle planet, a mans bright blue eyes open.

A lightsaber. It has been found! A voice whispers into his ear.

There are two girls. They are both very strong in the force. Go, retrieve them.

The man stands up. His eyes rove mindlessly over his room.

"The girls." He says to himself. "Where are they?"

They are on Jakku. Retrieve them. Retrieve them for me Master Skywalker.

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Authors Note: Omg hi guys! If you have taken the time out of your day to read this story, thank you so so so much. It literally means the world to me. Anyways, i was hoping y'all could give me feedback? Whether you like the direction the story's going in, your opinions, literally anything. This would mean so much to me! Thank you guys :)

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