She doesn’t need anyone to tell her to get out of the way. Rey’s running away from the fire fight because she doesn’t deal with Tie Fighters; the First Order only means trouble, and in the Outer Rim? Anything goes. Troopers are falling from the sky in their transport ships and she’s not about to get in the middle of it. And yet she misses the fact that she’s running into the flames all along; when a stranger zooms past her, the scavenger skids to a halt and hides her head with her hands, eyes quick to open and search for him – was it a him?
It was. And he managed to eliminate the shots that would’ve taken her head off.
“How did you —-?”
There wasn’t time to explain the scientific theory behind the act for there was hardly time to have a talk about gravity and energy, so a curt answer is all he can give the stranger, hoping it is enough.
“Altering the gravity around them.”
He calls back simply as he maintains airborne, speeding through the air like a rocket, pulling a trial of sand behind him as a result. Energy pulses of his own are discharged with precision, taking down a couple of troopers before slamming directly into one, pushing him along with multiple G-Forces, bringing him up, up, up into the sky. A sharp downward turn brings the ground to his face, and they crash into desert ground, leaving the trooper a wrecked mess, while he escapes unharmed, immediately flying back to the other, a question broadcasted to her.
What is before him is a scene unfolding from nightmares, (but not his, his are much worse,) it’s about to blow up into a war zone soon enough, and diffusing the situation is impossible, not when the blaze of laser and cannon fire shakes the very ground his feet touch. Impossibly, his eye catches sight of a woman whose mere presence is an anomaly on a battlefield like this (but she very well could be somebody — he doesn’t know, not yet anyway,) so he treats her as a bystander, one caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Adrenaline pumping in his blood, Richard flies in, presses gravity close, warping stray energy blasts that would hit the stranger away.
