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hey poe i got a problem well the caprine has a problem ever since captain jojo left we dont have a pilot i thought we might get one with the shuffle but we got maintenance instead and pinkie knows a pilot but hes another pony and captain dany eats horses so i dont think its safe anyway i said i know a pilot and we got two free bunks theyre only communal bunks but i could help buy us rooms next time the ship gets an upgrade everything else is pretty good except you have to promise not to eat meat where pinkie can see you

in other words i need a pilot

Okay buddy, let me go through this one step at a time.

#1: What did the common period ever do to you?

#2: What planet does a pony come from and what even more messed up planet does your captain come from that she eats other sentient aliens?

#3: Since when is there even meat around for us to eat unless we're on a moon?

#4: I'm kind of the spare on my ship, so sure.

All you gotta do is ask, and I'm your guy.

nothing but i got bigger problems than punctuation right now the ponies are from equestria but i dont know if thats their country or their planet kind of hard to tell anyway i guess theyre a different species than danys horses cause she said those arent sentient just pack animals like bantha but im still worried i guess there was a lot of meat on the last planet they were at before i got here its not a problem right now but pinkies a strict vegetarian just a warning for the future

im asking you

please

Finn, if you don't punctuate your giant paragraphs, I have a really hard time reading them. Dumb fighter jock, right?

And Pinkie can be a strict vegetarian all they want. If they try to make everyone else a strict vegetarian, then they're just being a jerk.

You got me. I'll put in for an official transfer. Can't say no to you, man, I'm always your pilot. If you need me sooner than whatever paperwork takes, I don't see why I can't ship over there and spend most of my time.

right

sorry poe

its not that she just gets really sad if we eat animals and i dont want her to get sad

thats awesome im excited you can come over any time you want youre my friend

Thanks buddy.

Fair enough. That's your choice.

All right. I'll be over soon.

[It's going to be good to spend more time with Finn. Hopefully he can get over the crush he's got on him, though. Fun needs to be what happens, not awkward.]

youre the best see you soon

[Immediately after he sees a certain post, Finn trips over himself to get to Poe's bunk and hammers on it nervously.]

Poe? Poe, we got a problem!

Edited 2016-06-12 04:37 (UTC)

Calm down, Finn.

If it was Kylo Ren, if be throwing you into a shuttle so wet could go hide under General Kenobi's bed. But Hux?

He's nothing without his legions. Just a bully, alone. He has no friends here.

[Well, yes, but--

Somehow he'd never imagined Hux showing up here. His panic isn't visibly going down at all.]

That's not gonna stop him from telling everyone I'm a traitor and coming after me!

If he comes after you, he's going through me first, and that ain't gonna happen.

You should be proud to be a traitor to the First Order. Proud. It means you did the right thing.

That's not how anyone else will see it. They don't know the First Order.

Yeah, they know you.

Hux ain't a charmer. Give your friends some credit. And give me some credit for standing up for you too.

You gotta stand up for yourself. You did what was right. The First Order murders entire planets full of civilians. No one is going to be on his side unless they're just as evil.

[It's true that Hux isn't exactly likable. But he's still got the association with command that he'd been taught to fear as much as respect. The respect may not be there anymore, but the fear isn't so easy to get rid of.]

That's not how they present themselves, Poe. They're preserving order and keeping the galaxy from falling into chaos. They paint the Republic as corrupt and a place where they let people die from neglect, and--

[Take a deep breath, Finn.]

It'll be our word against his.

And anyone who buys into that order and preserving the galaxy crap, remind them that Hux decided the best way to do that was by blowing up an entire star system.

Yeah, it will. That's why he's not going to be a problem.

[Finn shivers, remembering that awful sight from Takodana and how he'd known what was going on, what they'd done. What they were willing to do again.]

Someone who's willing to do that won't stop at hunting down a traitor just because I ask him nicely, Poe.

You keep forgetting you have friends, Finn. You've got people to watch your back. He's got no one. He's a back lines commander who doesn't have Stormtroopers to order around and doesn't do his own fighting. You really think someone like that just showing up nowhere and playing high and mighty is going to get any kind of support from the people in the fleet?

So first order of business is we get your other friends on comms and make sure everyone's got your back just in case Hux does get chippy and think he's up to some kind of real fight.

[Everything Poe is saying is true. An officer without the power of his troops is far less of a threat, and the thing he likes about the Fleet is that they base their opinions on people by what they do while they're here, not what they did while they were at home.

And yet, even moreso than Kylo Ren or Leader Snoke, Hux is the one whose face was on the holos every day extolling the virtues of the First Order. To Stormtroopers, he is face of everything they represent.

So Finn nods, but he still looks unsure as hell.]

I'll ask Ahsoka to come over. If she's back to being older, I owe her another practice session anyway. You told General Kenobi, right? That I was First Order?

Yeah, I did. [He didn't know it was supposed to be some kind of secret.] You should be proud of what you've done, Finn.

[Poe's said things like that before, but Finn never feels right about it.]

But I don't, Poe. I don't feel proud that I was a Stormtrooper. I was the top of my class, did I ever tell you that? That I was considered very promising and exemplary and that I had great potential for killing innocent people.

[He crosses his arms.]

How much of that great potential did you end up meeting before you ran for it, hot shot?

[Finn frowns, not sure where Poe's going with this.]

None of it. The village was my first battle. I--I lied and said my blaster was jammed because I couldn't shoot anyone.

I get that you feel bad you were on the wrong side, Finn. But the point is that you got yourself out of there. I can guarantee that no one is going to give a crap about what you might have done. They're just going to care about what you actually did. Which was, technically, flushing a promising career out of the airlock and risking execution so you could save a dirty spy from prison and escape with him.

[Well, yes. But also no. If Hux didn't care, he wouldn't be in this pickle.]

Why should anyone trust me to do anything when I'm a traitor?

Why should anyone trust you if you were loyal to the side that thinks blowing up multiple planets is all right?

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