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Some very strange encounters (and almost getting digested) later...

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DJ: "Hey, that is real good! Could you imagine cooking for me again sometime?"

Armitage: "Are you offering me a job?"

DJ: "On the other hand, the Resistance needs a skilled cook, too."

Armitage: "You ARE offering me a job!"

DJ: "Don't rejoyce too early! The patrons won't go easy on you."

Armitage: "I wouldn't want them to! I'm the best. Let them come and challenge me in that claim!"

And that could have been the happy end of the scavenger's story, if not for a certain call Gavin Dree had made...

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Loading the dishwasher, Armitage scanned the room for kitchen scraps that he could take. A half-eaten apple would be a juicier fruit than he'd eaten since he had been five years old, but it remained a fact that it was an apple someone else had bitten into and then discarded.

As a scavenger, Armitage sold the junk to buy food, he wasn't in the habit of eating it! Curse the Resistance for dragging him into this! Curse the First Order for being so stupid as to have let BB-8 escape! And curse his father, for having left him behind when he had fled Jakku!

Kitchen droid: "Are you a new employee? Would you clean away those scraps over there, too, please?"

Armitage: "What? This stuff here?"

Potatoes, corn, slices of sausage and lemon... Granted, none of this would make a meal in itself in those meager quantities, but the ingredients were still in perfect condition! The hobbyist cook could already taste them come together in a sauce. All he needed was...

Armitage: "Hand me that fish! I always wanted to cook a fish!"

Kitchen droid: "That's not a fish, that's a..."

Armitage: "And those mussels!"

A little later a platter of seafood boil was presented to the cantina's owner.

DJ: "You made this from leftovers?"

Armitage: "Asteroid belts are leftovers from the creation of planets, and here we are, mining them. Dig in already!"

Armitage: I'm a leftover, too. I want them to look at me with the same amazement they look at this, what was it called again? Crawlfish?

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On Jakku, Armitage had lived as a gatherer and scavenger. He was confident to easily be able to find edibles to survive on on this lush world. Barter for shelter until he had built one up.

He'd do okay, but, holy shit, how he'd wanted to be the one to blow a fortune on three different flavors of ice cream like the trio at the bar! They were looking like nothing, like the typical soldiers of fortune, actually, but the kind of disposable money they were throwing around was mind-boggling.

"What's typically gathered 'round here?" Armitage asked DJ, and the answer was: "Dirty dishes".

Okay, that was fair. Before he could dream of a bed, the newcomer would have to earn the money for an inside spot, maybe even by the fireside, if he really applied himself to his task.

But the adventurer trio with their treats and the memories of him having slaved away for Unkar Plutt as a kid really didn't motivate Armitage to give his best today.

Tina: "Say, guys, how common can red hair be in humans?"

Daniel (sighing): "Not nearly common enough!"

Gavin: "I say! That walking orange, a Wookiee and the rolling orange match the description perfectly!"

Gavin: "Ensign Thanisson? This is Gavin Dree calling from Takodana. We spotted the fugitives here in DJ's castle. Inform Captain Ren asap!"

Daniel: "Did you just sell the cute waiter to the First Order, Captain Dree?!"

Gavin: "I'm positive I can offer you a satisfactory substitute. Just wait 'till I've shown you a holo of my mom!"

Daniel: "Ew, don't be gross! No offense meant, of course."

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Gavin's mother has red hair, giving him a recessive allel for red - his "inner beauty", as the couple to be will later put it.

Also, these guys aren't rich, Armitage just hasn't realized yet that ice cream would be A LOT cheaper here than in a desert.

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With the expected many pauses and heavyness in his voice, Chewbacca filled the castle's proprietor in about the situation as well as the tag-along he had acquired.

DJ: "I've seen plenty of eyes in here, but in a way, there are only seven or eight pairs overall. The eyes of an adventurer, of a greedy person... or of one who wants to run away. I see those particular ones..."

DJ: ...whenever I look into the mirror. But where'd I even go... I've seen to it that there isn't anything anymore in that place. The very land is too scarred now to rebuild.

DJ: "...in your face right now."

Armitage: "Mhm. Could be."

Armitage: I don't know. I certainly will part ways with those Resistance fools. But this place seems nice. And let's be real, by now the locals will have eaten my polystarch stash and taken apart my AT-AT, so what's left for me on Jakku!

DJ: "The question is, WILL you?"

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Chewbacca (still using the translator): "Meet DJ! He runs this place."

Armitage: "I don't see him playing music?"

Chewbacca: "The nickname pertains to him refusing to take a side - in anything. It's short for "Don't Join"."

Armitage: "I see. When I do it, that's deplorable and akin to burning down a solar system, but when he does it, your voice turns all warm."

Noticing newcomers having entered from the corner of his eyes, but even moreso having picked up their auras, DJ turned around towards the trio.

He spotted Chewbacca, a stranger and BB-8, but no Paige walking next to the astromech.

DJ: Sucks to be correct. "Thanks", Force, you shitbag of a cosmic power!

For a brief moment an alternate timeline stood in front of DJ's inner eye, one in which he, who definitely had a thing for daring pilots, had asked Paige out. But she was... had been Rose's sister and you didn't date your best mate's sibling. It just wasn't done.

A faint smile crossed DJ's lips, when he thought to feel a warm, Paige Tico flavored glow, but he knew it was just vivid imagination. The real Paige had already moved on, either to thoroughly explore her new state of existence, like a sensible soul did, or to get born... like the majority of them tended to do.

DJ approached trio. Had he expected Han Solo burst through the door any moment, standing close to Chewbacca and reading that one's body language, he realized that Paige wasn't the only Resistance operative lost. The younger, smaller man hugged the Wookiee, and his Force-infused presence was sufficient to comfort the veteran momentarily.

Needless to say, Armitage hated this person on sight.

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The trio found the cantina only sparsely populated - just a Kubaz, two humans and a third man who was indistinguishable from a human by Armitage. The bar and kitchen were tended to by droids, with the only living being on the staff being a human, too.

That was very different from Jakku, where humans had outnumbered every other species individually, but not all of them combined, not by a long shot. In this room, tonight, Armitage found himself in the presence of his own species and not going to lie, the man liked that a lot.

Incompetent idiots that the First Order blokes were, at least this they had gotten right: That humans should be the ones to call the shots in the galaxy!

Humans were the galaxy's most adaptive, opportunistic and prolific species.

According to the Empire's teachings, humanity's fertility had for tens of thousands of years ensured that they produced the most varied offspring and therefore had a higher chance of prodigies getting born, what by now had - according to those teachings anyway - led to humans being the fittest and most clever.

Belonging to such an elevated species made the scavenger, who had gotten sidelined all his life, feel special. No matter how much he got ignored or spit on, nobody could take that natural superiority away from him!

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It was only a matter of time before I shoehorned the Reeds in, lol. The trio replaces two five-seconds-on-screen characters by name of Bazine and Grummgar. In the movie they are on a date and then one of them makes a plot-progressing phone call. That's it.

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The Millennium Falcon arrived on Takodana.

They landed a fair bit aside from DJ's castle, in part to avoid attention, but also to give Armitage the chance to take in the landscape in all it's glory. BB-8 in particular fondly remembered the moment he had first rolled over grass. Certainly that experience would soften up the scavenger's heart!

Armitage: "On my first homeworld it was always raining, then Jakku was all desert... Nice to know that there are also normal planets."

Or not.

Armitage: "Will you loooook at this, BB-8! I never knew there was so much water in the whole galaxy! You can't see the opposite shore!"

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