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Finn probably should have listened to everyone when they told him it’s okay if he stays at the base for this mission. It wasn’t anything big, just a little something to fight off some First Order soldiers from a peaceful planet. But the reason Finn was encouraged to stay back was something bigger. The planet was the same place where Poe disappeared a few years ago.
Finn knew it might bring his walls down a bit, to visit the place where a series of lifechanging events happened a few years ago. But Finn told himself that he’d be fine, it’d be like every other mission.
It was like every other mission, except for when he got shot. Luckily, it was on his leg and not on his chest, but that stopped him from being able to stand up properly. In the heat of the moment, he’d dropped his blaster and only had a knife, which was quite unfortunate, as he wasn’t really trained in fighting with one. His blaster wasn’t too far away, but far enough for him not to be able to get to it before a stormtrooper would shoot his brains out. The adrenaline in his veins kept the pain from taking over his last moments. Or what he thought were to be his last moments.
The stormtrooper in front of him suffered the same fate as Finn himself, except for the fact that Finn got shot in the leg and the stormtrooper fell down with a hole in its helmet. In the hole, Finn saw an arrow. He looked around to see anyone with a bow of some kind and saw a figure in a cloak on his right. Their face was covered with a hood and Finn couldn’t see anything that would reveal their identity.
And as Finn stared at his saviour for what felt like hours, in reality only seconds passed. During that short moment, a stormtrooper managed to hit at the mysterious figure with a baton, similar to the kind Finn had learned to use back at the First Order. Finn dragged himself in the mud, reaching for his blaster and firing at the stormtrooper. His leg started to hurt at this point, but he dragged himself towards the now dead stormtrooper and his saviour on the ground, faced the other way.
As Finn reached the figure and turned them around to see if they were still alive, his world stopped. He couldn’t hear anything, he couldn’t see anything else, he didn’t feel anything.
And then he felt everything at once.