Han Solo POV

As the Imperial officer stops Jyn and I as we are about to walk onto the tarmac, I feel the adrenaline pump through my veins once more; it had been a while since I had encountered a predicament as difficult as this. I'm about to test my luck with a random quip when Jyn clears her throat and speaks to the officer.

"The situation is a code red beta fiver," Jyn says, rattling off an Imperial code I had never heard of.

"An explosive within the shipment? Who would do something so brash?" the officer asks. "Very well. It's good to see that the troopers of this base know what to do pertaining to code red scenarios. The welfare of one's base is, after all, more important than oneself. As you know, I do need your identification to authorize disposal of the corrupted shipment."

"Our identification?" Jyn says; as soon as she says it, I know that we are screwed. Before the officer and his squadron can react to Jyn's hesitation, there is a roaring of a familiar ship overhead.

"Get down!" I shout to Jyn, dropping the heat resistant crate in front of us as a barrier as the Falcon pulls down and fires heavy shots at the stormtroopers and their leader. As the heat clears, Chewbacca lowers the ship's ramp as Jyn and I hurry down the runway with the weapons in tow.

As the ramp closes and the ship blasts upwards, I can't help but laugh triumphantly as the three of us gather around the crate and analyze the weapons we had managed to acquire.

"Your debt should be paid easily," Jyn says, a vibrant smile on her face. "I thought we were goners for sure when he asked for identification. Chewbacca saved our skins."

Chewie shrugs nonchalantly at Jyn's compliment as he heads to the cockpit, the two of us following him there. "Now we go to Jabba." Chewie nods with enthusiasm as the ship breaks through the Sullustan sky.

Jyn Erso POV

As I change in the back of the ship, I can't help but feel a strange sense of accomplishment, something I hadn't felt in a long time. It felt good to take from the people who had taken so much from me, and it felt so much better with a team watching my back.

"Knock knock," Han says sarcastically as he approaches me from the ship. "After this experience, would you still like to be a part of this team? I know that Chewie and I aren't living in the best conditions and that it might seem strange considering we barely know one another, but I think that you would be a great member of our little gang."

"That raid, it felt empowering, and I haven't felt so satisfied in a while. I'd love to stay with you guys. I've lived a life of solitude for a long time, and I think it's about time I open up to others."

"Well I guess you'll get that feeling a lot more, Jyn," he says. "Once we get this shipment to Jabba, he'll have no choice but to ask me to do all the good smuggling jobs. Speaking of which, I need to contact him."

Typing in a quick code on a panel on the side of the holotable, Han pulls up a hologram of a harsh looking Twi'lek man. "I have message to get through to Jabba, Bib. Tell him it's a message from Han Solo."

With a nod, the Twi'lek man is gone and we are met with a projection of a rather disgusting looking Hutt. Even while looking at the pale flickering blue hologram, I can tell that his hands and mouth are moist with some type of substance; I don't want to know what.

He speaks to Han in Huttese as Han replies in an obviously forced polite tone of voice. "Hello Jabba… Yes I have the weapons Deek said I would get… It seems like a reasonable price… The Millennium Falcon will be there as soon as possible… Okay, I promise you won't have any more problems from me… Until my arrival."

As the hologram flickers off, Han looks at me with a wide grin on his face. "Jabba's pardoning me completely in exchange for the stolen weapons. Now all we need to do is get to- Do you hear that?" Straining my ears, I hear an unmistakable sound, a sound that I always hated hearing; the screeching of TIE Fighters.

Chewbacca calls to us from the cockpit, and Han and I sprint to him. Pointing to a screen underneath the windshield, I see a transmission sent from the TIE fighter captain demanding that a boarding party be permitted aboard the ship.

"Chewie, can't we get away from them by jumping into hyperspace?" Han asks. He is answered with a frantic series of growls from the Wookiee in response. "How come the hyperdrive doesn't work?" Again, Chewbacca growls frantically. "Okay then I guess we'll do this the old fashioned way. Jyn, you had better buckle up, this isn't going to be a smooth ride," Han says, climbing into the pilot seat."

"What exactly do you plan on doing?" I ask him, afraid of the answer.

"We can't escape through hyperspace, so we're going to escape the next best way," Han says. "We're going to lose them and hope they don't hit us."

Sorry for not updating this story for a while! I have been preoccupied by one of my other stories, but I do still have a plan for this one. Please review if you guys enjoy this chapter!