"Finn? You almost ready?" Rey asked as she could hear loud unwrapping sounds on the other side of the bathroom door.

"Yeah, I'm almost done. What's the big hurry, anyway?" Finn said as he struggled with his costume.

"We have ten younglings that will be very sad if we don't take them trick or treating. After that, there's a party at Poe's place. He is welcoming Niya to the base with a Halloween party."

"I don't think this is the right size?" he said.
Then she heard an explosion of small rolling objects followed by a large thud.

"What was that? Finn?"
"Ow. I'm alright, I'm alright." He said as he picked himself off of the floor. "But now, I have nothing to wear." He said as he opened the door to a stormtrooper helmet dangling in his face.

"Ahhh!" He yelled, as he tried to grab the door and fell on his back.

Rey took the helmet away. "Oh, sorry. Too soon?"

"Why would you do that?! Wait, a minute. Why do you have that?" Asked Finn as he stood up.
"I use it for many things, target practice mostly." She said as she spun the helmet on her fist.

"I'm never putting one of those things on again! I'm not going," he said folding his arms, pouting.
With wide eyes she said, "Are you serious? There are ten of them, Finn. Ten!"

"You're a Jedi, you'll figure it out."
"I'm not going to play Jedi mind tricks on them."
"Why not?" He shrugged.
"Please, I'll never ask you to do it again."
"Rey...you know I'd do anything for you. Anything ...but that." She could see how tense it made him and decided to drop the subject.

"Okay, okay. I understand, but I do need you to go with me. I won't survive."
"What?! You've survived Kylo Ren, how many times?"

Ignoring the comment, she began rifling through her closet. "Let's see what else," after several minutes she said with despair, "I don't have anything that will fit you." She looked over at the chair. "Oh wait a minute, Poe's jacket." She grabs it and throws it at him. "You can be a Resistance pilot for the night. Alright?"

He put on the black leather jacket. "Much better, thanks Rey." He said beaming.

He turned in the full length mirror, propping up the collar, posing like he's shooting something. "I look pretty good, do you think he'll let me keep this one too?"

"You never know, but I think that's the only jacket he has left. And he might be looking for it. "Niya left it here last night."

"Niya? Have I met this one? I can't keep track."
"Oh, that's right! You haven't met her yet. Oh yeah, you're gonna love her, she's the best!"

"Alright mister Resistance pilot, here hold this." She said handing him the helmet.

"Why do you insist on torturing me with this?" He said holding it like it's a dead animal.

Then his nostrils got a whiff of something. He lowered his nose to the helmet, hesitated for a moment, and sniffed it.

"It smells..." he sniffs again, "like flowers?"
Putting on the stormtrooper body armor she said, "Oh yeah, I use it as my potpourri bowl sometimes."
"It smells...nice." He said surprised. "A lot nicer when I wore one. I wish I would have met you sooner, Rey."

She laughed stretching out her arms, "Helmet." He gave her the helmet and she plopped it on her head, stretched out her arms and spun around. "What do you think?"

"The resemblance is uncanny." He said as he shivered. "What are you doing with a stormtrooper outfit anyway?"

"I swiped it. Want not waste not, that type of thing, yeah?"

"The more you hang around Poe, the more you're turning into him."

"You should tell him that, he'd think it was funny," she said as she gathered her things.
"Tell me what?" asked Poe as he entered Rey's room.
"Oh, hey." said Finn.
"You're going to the party tonight, right? The whole base is gonna be there. Hey, that's my jacket." said Poe.

"Well I was using it for..."
"His costume." said Rey.
"Costume for what?" Asked Poe.
"We are taking the younglings trick or treating." said Rey.

"So you stole my jacket?" Poe had his hands on his hips.
"I didn't steal it, I was borrowing it."
"Niya left it." said Rey.
"Niya was here?" He swallowed hard. "How long ago?"

"About..." she looked at the clock, "twenty hundred hours."
"Did she say anything to you? Where she was going?"
"No, why? What's wrong?"
"We got into it last night and she said she needed to cool off. I've been looking all over the base for her. I have to find her, if you see her, tell her I'm looking for her."
As he was headed out the door, he turns around and smirks.
"How the hell did you get roped into taking the younglings, anyway?"
"It's her fault."said Finn.
Rey raised her hand and grinned.
Poe started laughing. "Good luck!"

Niya's POV:
It was getting dark and I stayed hidden behind Poe's x-wing. I've been trying to get back to him ever since I left Rey's, but the stormtroopers were blocking my exit. I have seen a lot of stormtroopers in my day, but these were different. I just saw one bite the neck off of a gundark!
My com-link isn't working! How am I gonna get out of here?! What would be really handy right now, is if I knew how to pilot a ship. I could get in Poe's ship and just fly away.

Wait! I can get in Poe's ship, I'll call him! I have to try. I'm a sitting porg out here!
I climbed up the ladder slowly and stopped on each rung trying to not bring attention to myself.

Oh no! One of the stormtroopers sees me. I hurry into the cockpit, knocking the ladder down. The trooper is running towards me. How do I close the cockpit window?

There's a button...where is it?! Where is it?!
I scan over the controls quickly and they all look the same. I press a couple of random buttons and it starts closing.

Ugh, it's so slow! Close.. come on! Come on! Oh no! There are two troopers now and they are going after the ladder!

There's more of them headed this way! The cockpit window finally closes just in time as one of them is looking right at me, pounding on the window growling.
Growling? Huh?
Another one is on the other side of the window doing the same thing. Okay, call Poe. Call Poe.

Why are there so many buttons?! I trace my fingers along each button quickly as if it would help me select one.

There's more of them showing up. There's so many, I'm surrounded! The glass...it's breaking! I can barely see through my tears and my throat feels constricted.

I'm flipping switches as I'm yelling for Poe, on the off chance I actually flip the correct one."Poe!? Poe are you there?!"Oh wait, I think this is it!

I move a lever away from me and my stomach drops. The ship starts lifting off the ground and stormtroopers are falling off. I look down at them and laugh out of relief but it's short-lived. I feel nauseous.

"Ahhh! Poe are you there? Poe!" My voice cracks.
"Niya? Are you alright?"
"Poe, I'm in your ship."
"You're in my ship?"
"How do I get down?"
"You use the lad...der. What?! ARE YOU FLYING MY SHIP?!"

"Poe, I need help! I can't land and I'm surrounded by stormtroopers!"
"Where are you?"
"I'm above your landing platform. I'm gonna crash! I don't..."
I see him run out of the dorm building and look up.

"Okay, I see you."
"Poe, there's growling stormtroopers!"
"Growling? Just stay there, Ni!"
"I don't ..."
"Just do what you're doing, Niya. I'm checking it out. Just stay calm."

I'm anything but calm - I can barely breathe.
I can see him below, running towards the landing platform and now hiding behind a tree looking up at me.

He sees the stormtroopers who were trying to steal an x-wing and he began shooting at them. He shot them off of Snap's ship and they face-planted on the ground but shortly after that, they got up and started running towards Poe.

Poe shot them again but they wouldn't stop. Poe started backing away from them still shooting.
As he ran into the forest with BB-8, he said out of breath, "Niya... stay there! I'll come back for you, I promise!"

I could still see where Poe and BB-8 went and the stormtroopers followed them. "Why aren't they dying? Poe, what are they? It's like they are in some kind of trance.

"Poe, I can't do this! Help me land this thing!"
"Ni, you're safe up there."
"And you're not. It'll only be a matter of time until I crash this thing!"
"Alright, hold on!" He doubled back, losing the troopers for the moment, I saw him bending down talking to BB-8.

Then they both looked up at me. "Ni, keep the ship steady. BB-8 is coming up." I heard over the com-system.

As the ship hovered over them, I saw BB-8 extend one of his long snake-like arms out towards the ship and the next thing I know, I'm hearing a beeping droid in surround sound.

"Bee, I'm so glad you are here!" I patted him on the head. Then, BB-8 took over landing the ship and Poe climbed up on the wing looking at me through the window.

This time I knew which button to press to open it. I couldn't wait to get a hug from him but instead, he told me to scoot over.

He flipped the com-switch, "Rey, Finn? Where are you?" Poe asked.
"We are on the south side of the base."
"Alright. Listen, there are some deranged stormtroopers out there, something's not right. You all need to quit trick or treating and get inside right now. They are headed your way!"

We heard a lot of static and Finn say, "What? Poe?" Can you say that ag—" and then the com-line went silent.

Poe flipped the switch back and forth trying to talk to Finn but the line was dead. He reached in his pocket searching for his com-link. "Blasted, I lost it!" He said.

He flipped the com-switch again in an attempt to make contact. "Black leader to base, do you copy?"
"Black leader to base, do you copy?"
There was no response, we were on our own.
All of a sudden, all of the lights in the ship short-circuited.

We looked outside the window and there was a stormtrooper by the ship with his helmet off, his face was white, his eyes glowing red, and he was ripping out wires from the ship and eating them. My heart fell into my stomach, as panic rose in me, I couldn't catch my breath.

"Alright, strap yourself in. I'll have to fly blind. Hang on!" Poe flew to the south side of the base. As soon as we landed, he said, "We need to find the others. Do you have a blaster?"

I couldn't even think straight, everything was happening so fast that I froze.
Poe climbed onto the wing of the ship and jumped off. He hollered up at me. "Alright Niya, it's your turn." I climbed out of the ship and onto the wing staring at the ground - my
legs shaking.

"Ni, come on! We have to go!"
"Poe it's so high, I can't."
"Yes, you can. I'll catch you."
"Okay? Jump!"

I jump with my eyes closed and land in his arms.
"You alright?" He asked. I nodded. He gives me a quick reassuring smile and lets me down.

He opens the bottom hatch to his x-wing, and his head disappears for a moment, and then he hands me a blaster.
"Here, you know how to use it?"
I look at him blankly. "Okay, quick lesson. This button on the side, that's the safety. Press it when you want to shoot. See? Like this. Aim and press the trigger. Simple, right?"

I give him a nervous smile and sigh.
"Just stay by me, I won't let anything happen to you." Poe grabs my hand and we start to run, but he says, "Wait!" He leans down and picks up his com-link and looks at it in amazement.
Poe spoke into his com-link.

"Finn, Rey? Where are you?"
"Trick or treating."
"I know that!" He says rolling his eyes. "What division?"

"Thirteenth."
"Alright, Niya and I will meet you and Finn...stay away from stormtroopers."
"No problem, pal."

"I'm not joking, Finn. Some stormtroopers attacked Niya and me tonight. I think it might have something to do with the D'qar curse."
"Wait! There's a curse?!" Asked Finn.
Poe said, "Yeah, you guys need to hide until I get there."

"Come on, we gotta go." He said to me, grabbing my hand as we sprinted towards the Thirteenth Division. After awhile, we had to catch our breath and hid out of sight behind a bush.

"There's a curse? " I ask.
"Yeah, I didn't believe it but after tonight, I think it's the only thing that can explain what's happening. It's been said, seven stormtroopers came to D'Qar a long time ago, crash-landed in the lake, and drowned on Halloween night. Ever since then, there have been rumors that every Halloween night they come back to life."

"You mean like...Zombies?"
"Yeah, and kill anyone in their path."
He pulls out his electronic binoculars scanning the surroundings.

"Do you see anything?" I whisper.
"I see Finn and Rey." He grabs my hand and we run towards them.
"What are you two doing? I told you to hide and you're out here walking around?" Poe asks.

"You try telling these kids, no." Finn said. As one of the younglings walks by him, "They are the real monsters." He whispers and Rey nods.

"Poe! There here!" I screamed.
"Alright everybody, trick or treating is now over. Run!" Yells Poe.

We run as fast as we can through the neighborhood and they are gaining on us.
"Where's Chewie? Anybody seen Chewie?" He yells over the blaster sounds.

"He's working on the Falcon. Bay 6!" Yells Finn.
"Everybody to the Falcon. Chewie's our only chance. The only thing that can kill a zombie is a Wookiee's bite.

Let's hope Chewie's hungry." Poe said.
"When isn't he?" Yelled Finn as he sprinted past Poe.
"Good point!" Yelled Poe as he pulled me along.
We all start yelling for Chewie as we entered the docking bays.

"Chewie! Help!"
Chewbacca lifted up his welding mask and stood up on top of the Falcon. He saw us running in and started shooting at the stormtroopers.
"They're zombies!" We yelled.

Chewie jumped down from the Falcon and swung his huge fists at the stormtroopers, throwing them across the bay. Chewie's strength was unparallel to anything I've ever seen.

The troopers continued to get up and run towards Chewie. Rey tried using force lightning against them with no effect. Poe yelled, "Bite them Chewie. It destroys them." It's all you, buddy!"

When Chewie bit one, it expelled an ear-piercing scream and then began to wither, falling to the ground, disintegrating into dust. We covered our ears it was so loud. Chewie continued with his conquest and each one turned to dust.

"Poe, did you say there were six or seven stormtroopers?!" I yelled.
"Sev-en." As he said it, the last stormtrooper was running straight for us. Poe started shooting it and we all joined in.

"Chewie!" We all yelled. Chewie was covering his ears, the Zombie screams knocked him off of his feet making him lose his equilibrium.

In an attempt to gather his senses, Chewie shook his head while he was on his hands and knees. The last stormtrooper ran towards him and hit Chewie on the side of the head. It was about to blast him.

We all yelled, "No!" As we ran towards him, we heard a blast and the zombie screamed grasping at Chewie's head and then disintegrated. We looked in the direction of the blast.

"Chewie!" We saw Han run up and kneel by him. "Are you alright?"
Chewie nodded, still holding his head whimpering. Han helped him up.
"You gonna just stand there?" Han said in his low commanding voice as he looked at us.

We ran up to them. "How did you-?"Finn asked.
"This isn't the first time I've come across zombie stormtroopers, they're usually out in the far western reaches." "Was that all of 'em?"
We all nodded.

As Han stood resting his hand on the gun in his holster and with a smirk he said, "Hey Chew, you got somethin' in your teeth."

Chewie started laughing and put his arm on Han's shoulder as we all followed them inside the Falcon, and thanked them for saving us.

~The End~