#but that's not relevant to the plot

[elslittlestories]

Star Fighters

All it takes is one random interaction on a 4-years-old fanfiction and here I am side questing editing it to repost it on AO3... If anyone fancy some space adventure with Poe and Finn, I've got some for you!

Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Major Character Death

Characters: Poe Dameron, Finn, OFC

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Summary :

After the heavy loss they suffered in the events that led to the battle of Crait, the Resistance is slowly rebuilding. From their new base on Ajan Kloss, General Organa sends Poe Dameron and Finn on a mission to assist a partisan milicia and hopefully bring new recruits. But nothing ever goes as planned...

Chapter 1 : Crazy and the droids [extract]

1

  The old jumpspeeder splitted the air, slicing the wild vegetation growing along the pathway as it flew through the jungle of Yavin 4. Riding it, two teenagers were screaming at the top of their lungs.

Poe took a second to clear some loose strands of his messy dark hair off his driving goggles before gripping back at the handlebars, his pulse racing, adrenaline rushing through every fiber of his body. Oh, how he loved it!

"Faster Poe!", yelled the girl behind him, frantically hitting on his shoulder, " Faster!"

A cocky smirk spread on his lips and he pushed the engines a little more, bending over to try and protect himself from the violent wind the speed was creating. Behind him, he felt Deelio standing up, her hands firmly grasping at his jacket to keep her balance, and urging him to go faster again. 

Poe pushed the thrusters with an exalted whoop that instantly died in his throat as the speeder jerked and the engines started coughing.

" What the-" cursed Poe as he felt the handlebars shaking violently in his hands.

He hit the brakes and engaged the bike in a drift to lose more speed while Deelio wrapped her arms around his chest and squeezed her body on his back. They should have put their helmets on! Poe clenched his teeth as they hit a trunk and the bike was thrown in the thick jungle of their home world.

The jumpspeeder ended its course in a curtain of vines that tangled around the machine and its passengers as a black smoke escaped from the dying engines. Poe felt his friend shaking against his back and feared she'd hurt herself in the crash but he soon heard her chuckling in his neck. He spat a laugh, removed his goggles and ruffled his hair before saying : "Well, that was fun."

"Dad is going to kill me", replied Deelio.

Her father had brought that old Empire's jumpspeeder from one of his scouts a few month ago and allowed them to ride it out of exasperation at their constant asking. "Don't go too far", he had said. " Or too fast", he had added eyeing Poe whom had wisely nodded even though he knew he wouldn't obey.

"You mean me", he snorted.

She shook his shoulder, mildly at first but then with more force and Poe woke up with a start. His eyes took some time to adapt to the dim light of his surroundings and his brain even more to understand why Finn was staring at him urgently.

2

   "You need to see this", said the former stormtrooper, squeezing his shoulder.

Poe frowned, the nervousity in his friend's voice putting him out of his reverie and casting away the long lost memories of his childhood home. The time for reckless joyrides in the jungle was long gone—even though one could say flying the Millennium Falcon was close enough. 

Finn took a step back and motioned the pilot to follow him with a lift of his eyebrows. Poe scratched his hair and stood up from his bunk bed: back to the mission.

Leia had sent them off to an old mining asteroid in the Outer Rim to persuade a droid programmer that was already working for the Resistance to come work in the new base on Ajan Kloss. After the battle of Crait, the Resistance had been reduced to a few tens of people and they were in desperate need for any help.

Poe felt his gut twisting at the thought of all the lives they had lost on that dreadful day, the lesson had been hard to learn. Admiral Holdo's sacrifice, his own retreat order as he realized they were no match against First Order canons…

Poe shook the memories away and followed Finn in the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon. BB-8 greeted him with a tilt of his head and a whistle, asking him if he rested well.

"I'll sleep better after the mission, buddy", replied Poe as he sat on the pilot chair.

The Falcon was on autopilot as long as they were on light speed, which in theory should have offered a 2 hours nap for Poe. Judging by their position, he only had 40 minutes…

"The general sent us a message", said Finn sitting in the co-pilot seat.

His voice was tired and Poe put a supporting hand on his friend's shoulder. Before he could think of anything to say, Finn was already playing the message and he focused on it.

"Commander Dameron", was saying Leia in a formal tone - Poe cock his head and couldn't help but feel a little burst of pride at his newly recovered rank. "I am afraid the situation is evolving faster than our intels can follow and the coordinates you have are no longer valid. I'm sending you your new delivery point and I'm urging you to stay unnoticed there. You might need to use another ship for the drop out", she added grimly.

Poe checked the new coordinates and frowned. "Corellia, uh?"

"That's in the core center of the galaxy", growled Finn, "it's going to take us ages to go there from the Outer Rim."

Poe side glanced at his friend, amused. "You just want to be back to Rey and Rose".

It was sometimes hard to tell if Finn was blushing due to the dark tone of his skin, but his childish scowl was as eloquent. Behind them, BB-8 was already babbling everything he knew about Corellia in a concert of beeps and whistles, even though Poe was already aware of the most important part: The planet had never truly recovered economically from the fall of the Empire and most of the ship factories had turned into dumpsters. Now that he thought of it, this might be the perfect conditions for the First Order to take root in the core systems unnoticed… 

"I don't get it", said Finn, "who would need a reprogrammed droid on that planet?"

BB-8 turned his oculus to Poe, apparently agreeing with Finn, and Poe took a moment to think. Bringing back the droid programmer was one part of the mission, she was also handing them a reprogrammed First Order droid for them to deliver it to a Resistance friendly faction, led by some guy by the name of Von Bi'll, that was trying to infiltrate the First Order. But to their knowledge, that faction was supposedly stationed in the Unknown regions of the galaxy, which was where most of the First Order planets were. 

"Look," said Poe, "I don't know either. But if Leia says we need to go there, she must be sure of her intel. Like she said, things evolve fast around here."

"But how are we going to find another ship?"

"We'll figure it out. First we need to get the droid and convince that Deely lady to come with us."

Finn opened his mouth to argue but Poe gave him a glare that shouted "Period!" before heading back to bed. He couldn't remember the last time he was able to sleep for a few hours straight and his body was starting to make him painfully aware of that. He was in his early thirties but as he lay down on the bunk bed, he felt like an old battered man.

He tried to prevent himself from overthinking the implications of their change of destination - as confident as he had tried to sound in front of Finn, he wasn't exactly thrilled by the idea. Plus, that programmer's name kept reminding him of his childhood best friend Deelio and he wasn't sure how he felt about it. He hadn't heard of her in ten years and he couldn't help but wonder if she was alright.

His tired mind drifted into an agitated sleep full of weird dreams and mixed memories until the signal of the ship about to exit light speed woke him up.

He found Finn fast asleep in the lounge bench and shook him up gently. The two friends took their seats in the cockpit where BB-8 was running a diagnostic on yet another malfunction.

"This thing is falling into pieces," grumbled Poe as he rubbed his face. 

In front of them, hanging in the deep void of space, appeared Boroth, an asteroid occupied by a mining facility from the Empire's era. The dark planetoid seemed on the verge of turning into dust and rocks, it seemed like the mine's metal skeleton was the only thing keeping it together.

A few areas seemed lighted but it was clear that the mining activities had stopped a long time ago. According to their intels, it was now used as a hideout for pirates, spice runners and all kinds of smugglers.

"And here I thought Jakku was the worst rat hole of this galaxy", said Finn.

"You clearly haven't traveled enough", sniggered Poe.

Finn glanced at him, an eyebrow raised, waiting for maybe an adventurous story but Poe just smiled.

"You don't want to know", he said as he engaged their descent on the landing deck at the south pole of the asteroid.

[fumifooms]

Omg guys he just genuinely likes bugs and mollusks and critters 😭💘💔 Forced to noble when he just wanna crouch and watch things skitter in the dirt…

[elodieunderglass]

Horror isekai where Perceiving the Weird Eldritch Thing gets you catapulted into a nightmare labyrinth of puzzle-solving.

I.e Those Who Perceive The Hunt of the Goblin King Must Partake In The Labyrinth and Can Only Be Freed If They Complete It In One Day and One Night. By Fae Law. For Reasons.

But the definition of “perception” clearly needs to be updated because some normal guy simply films the Hunt of the Goblin King Behind Arby’s, and puts it on Facebook -

No, not instagram or TikTok, it’s important that it be Facebook -

Because the rules are pretty clear, “the rules are the rules” as is carved ominously in elvish runes above the grim gate, and the Contract is Sealed. and so therefore the guy and 25 of their most random real-life acquaintances must run the gauntlet together. It’s Some Guy, their immediate neighbors, their first partner’s mom, their friends from hobby Facebook groups (oh this poor guy and their hobbies; the elderly birdwatchers from Facebook and the young up-and-coming drag king community), their random teen kid niece, college friends, a dog who also watched the video, a couple consisting of a woman who is the guy’s Facebook friend and showed her husband the video, and the husband doesn’t even know Some Guy, so he’s in the labyrinth and absolutely furious about being forced to be involved, and they proceed to break up over the course of the puzzle.

It’s important that the narrative keeps trying to be a sexy dark horror isekai! but within this the comedic reality of Catherine, 52, the guy’s horse-riding instructor, being passionately involved in escape-room-style puzzle solving and grappling with minor goblins. They are in fact speedrunning the gauntlet.

The Goblin King finally has to say: all right, actually, I only really set all this up to fuck with one (1) guy at a time, thanks for your willingness to participate, but I think all 25 of you can consider the gauntlet fully run.

And the group would be quite hurt by that. The rules are the rules. We have a contract, actually. Let Catherine cook.

[uruwashi-no-nightingale]

update was literally devastating

[tenowls]

teacher getou au...... wauh

[katnissmellarkkk]

suzanne collins : “so in the epilogue of mockingjay, katniss only refers to her children as the girl and the boy-”

people who read with one eye shut : “BECAUSE SHE DOESN’T LOVE HER KIDS AND WAS FORCED INTO HAVING THEM BY THE EVIL PEETA MELLARK?”

suzanne collins probably : “because i couldn’t decide on two names i liked.”

[eyeballsoup7310]

“We need more morally grey female characters” we absolutely do but some of y’all can’t even handle Vanessa afton

[dasketcherz]

a weeping angel

[confuzing]

SQQ: Hey.

SQH: Hey.

SQQ: How's your blorbo?

SQH: ...did you just call my husband a blorbo?

SQQ: Is he not your most precious of blorbos? You married him!

SQH: *huffs* How's your blorbo husband?

SQQ: Pff...Binghe's the main character he can't be a blorbo.

SQH: Yes he can!

SQQ: Eh...I guess technically. I always associate blorbos with side characters.

SQH: *scandalized gasp* Bro!

SQQ: If anyone's my blorbo it's probably Liu Qingge. Binghe's too important and plot relevant to be a blorbo.

SQH: *even more dramatic gasp* You're so mean!

*Five minutes later after SQH has stormed off to find and hug Mobei Jun*

MBJ: ?

SQH: You're special and important and plot relevant and don't you let anyone tell you otherwise!

MBJ: ...K.

[jamietwat]

[talk-nerdy-to-me-thyla]

Okay but I'm real nervous about the whole "book of Life" plot point being established, and how it can erase someone from ever existing, and having that plot point never being used and going into season 3

[a-jar-of-beetles]

do you think miskoro likes love so much because it's one of the greatest sources of transformation

[maid-of-the-golden-deer]

something about origins darkspawn + darkspawn designs that is lost in future games imo is like... a sense of a strange, unknowable form of "culture". you fight their forgemaster/blacksmith, the strongest ones get a better set of armor and weapons, they add somewhat pointless gory decor to areas theyve overtaken, etc etc

you can definitely argue its the power of the archdemon in that game, use its control to make them act in a more "human" manner, but considering the sentient darkspawn in the expansions, theres definitely more to it

which to me is totally lost in the knock-off-bdsm-most-of-them-dressed-the-same darkspawn of 2 onwards

tldr origins darkspawn designs and behavior are more in line with their "spawned from sentient races" nature than future media, which makes them kinda feel like generic monsters to me

[phantasm-echo]

Probably my favourite scene from the premiere, she was so based for kicking that droid

[mysteriousmissme]

it’s like this arc has bits of prev arcs embedded in it,

picture perfect,

severance,

red house,

smth similar to the far shore arc soon??

[cuppajj]

Desert Apparition