Ask Jakku Wrong Place, Wrong Time

Song Wren

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With the rev of the engine and a sputter of smoke, Song launched forward. The swoop bike, while built with parts a century old, functioned like it should. Didn’t mean it was any good, though. She would have traded her own speeder for the bucket of bolts any day, but she didn’t complain. She was content with what she had. Only problem was that it wasn’t going fast enough, and the last thing she wanted was a whole scavenger crew up on her ass for killing a chunk of their men.

Then it hit her.

Not the cloud of sand she was trailing through, but the same realization which struck Jeyten. Armed, organized scavengers with a wide presence on Jakku? It was the perfect opportunity. She could find enough parts to fix her own ship, and Jeyten’s, and stock on weapons or credits to boot. What got her thinking more, however, was the chance that this gang might be in league with the smuggler, Jer Katan.

Everything seemed to line up at once, and at the Jedi’s call, the Mandalorian nodded and said back to him, “Got it!

She slammed her boot to the accelerator. The engine hissed a second time. Although she couldn’t go fast enough to close the gap between her and the escaping scavenger, it didn’t matter as long as she could follow his trail.

Unfortunately, that was about to change soon. Ahead of them, the wreckage of the Star Destroyer loomed. There was a wide hole in it and the scavenger had aimed right for it, and Song suspected the old ship was either their base of operations, or a maze of ruins meant to throw them off. Maybe both. Either way, she couldn’t let him go so easy, and rocketed into the Star Destroyer behind him.

Song plunged into wreckage, through the back of the Destroyer’s main thruster, and found herself in a wide, makeshift passageway. A space between exhaust pipes and power generators, already gutted. While she pursued, the scavenger turned back to see her, and she half-expected him to pull out a blaster and start firing.

Which he did, but not in the way she anticipated.

He was shooting in front of him, at a weak-looking pipe overhead. By the time she figured out what he was doing, it was too late. The pipe gave way and soot and debris crashed down in front of her. Song cursed in Mando’a. The scavenger had cut them off. Fortunately, she had one or two tricks up her sleeve too.

Before the debris, there were two more open halls, one left and another right. Narrow corridors where Imperial soldiers had no doubt walked about in the generations before. Song didn’t know which to pick, so she swerved left and hoped she might find her way back to the scavenger before he escaped for good.

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From his peripheral, Jey could see that River was picking up the pace slightly - maybe he had a plan, slowing down his swoop slightly, Jey allowed River to overtake him and proceeded to follow closely behind him and began accelerating again. As the chase progressed, the scavenger began making their way to the Jakku landmark that was the downed Star Destroyer, the teen queried what the scavenger was planning to do but regardless, it wasn't good.

Without hesitation, Jey followed River and the scavenger into the Destroyer's main thruster - Jey expected to use the Force to help him navigate the Star Destroyer's interior but, there was a large makeshift passageway which must have been created by the scavengers as a way to use this downed Star Destroyer as some sort of shortcut or hideout maybe. With his focus mainly on the fleeing scavenger, he wasn't surprised to see that they had shot at a pipe to cut the two off from chasing them but the teen's instincts took over as he banked right into a narrow corridor, while River took the left turn. If they played their cards right, the two would have a better chance of catching up to the scavenger.

As Jey zoomed through the corridors, evading all the scattered debris and clutter, while the swoop's engine echoed in the barren, ghostly halls - Jey couldn't help but wonder to himself if the legends were true that the legendary Jedi Master Luke Skywalker used the Force to crash the Star Destroyer's that filled the Ship Graveyard, for a moment, he envied the legendary Skywalker and wondered what it would be like to have been that powerful in the Force... if the legends were true of course.

Honestly, he had no idea where he was going or if he was going the right way but at this point in his life, Jey knew to trust the Force and let it guide him. Finally, the separate corridors that Jey and River had passed through converged into a large and barren area that must have been completely wiped out by the crash and had been stripped for parts. Jey slowed down his swoop to a halt and would wait for River to get here, taking a moment to level himself he sensed the presence of others nearby through the Force... which meant that this was some sort of base for the scavengers...

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Song Wren

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Swerving left was perhaps one of the worst mistakes she had made that day, and it went without saying a lot of mistakes had been made. She expected to swerve into a nice, open chamber, a shortcut of sorts, to take a break from the heat of the chase. Instead, she entered something much worse. Narrow hallways and winding corridors. Sharp turns and low-hanging pipes and wires, a few of which smacked her across the face as she went.

One pipe nearly took off her head, but she was lucky enough to duck last second and manage only a scratch on her helmet’s top.

She had ventured deeper into the Star Destroyer too, and there were very little sources of light she could use or follow. Twice she almost smashed into a wall, and three times she scraped against them whenever she turned. It was astonishing that she was still alive, but an even greater miracle that the swoop bike hadn’t just exploded from the sheer weight and exertion of her wild maneuvers. It was like pod-racing but without the reward and way more fatal.

It came with great relief to her when she finally emerged from that shadowy hell and back to Jeyten’s side, who had since slowed down to inspect the massive chamber they were now inside. Song did the same. Her speeder’s engine huffed though, and smoke began to billow out. A groan escaped her lips.

Can’t be surprised,” she said. “Goddamn scaveng…

She was cut off when a blaster bolt hit her speeder square in the hood. The blast, and the crash, sent the Mandalorian flying out of her seat and into the sand. As she struggled to rise, she glanced up to see the escaped scavenger resting on his swoop bike ahead. Beside him were two more armed scavengers. As for the rest, or the other seven? Situated across the chamber. A circle of death.

She and Jeyten had fallen right into a trap. Of course.

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