That's no moon... Wait, no, it's a moon.

[scruffier]

In which Our Heroes (?) stop for blaster practice, assuming the kids can stop bothering each other for two minutes, so help me, I will turn this light freighter around and we will not get ice cream.

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[scruffier]

His willingness to go into battle is one of Chewbacca's many excellent qualities, which also include being a good voice of reason, keeping track of who they've recently screwed over, and being a much better cook than Han. The first blast from the bowcaster takes Han by surprise enough to jump, but doesn't distract him from his goal.

When he notices Rey chasing after-- and where did the lightsaber go?!-- he grabs a second blaster, holding it out to hand off or toss, depending how close she is when he gets turned back around.

[icanfix]

Chewie is so her hero right now. Kitty too. She has no doubt those creatures would be on them already if the others (yes, okay, Kylo Ren too) weren't providing cover.

She catches the blaster Han tosses her way and immediately turns around to fire at the beasts.

[mrrawrarrrgh]

Even as he fires, Chewbacca responds to each roar on the tigers' part with one of his own - standard wookiee battle cries, you know how it goes with the warrior races. That's how you handle aggression displays, okay? You just do better ones yourself. If you're a wookiee, anyway.

Of course, now that Han and Rey both have blasters in hand, that opens Chewie up to intercept one tiger as it gets in too close. It's better if he handle them at close range than one of the humans, after all.

[scruffier]

One-on-one, Han doesn't particularly like his chances with the big cats, not if they get up close. He's not so well-armed when unarmed as a Wookiee. Rey's staff wouldn't do much, though if she hadn't ditched the lightsaber she'd be better off.

He turns his attention to helping finish off the one Chewie's shooting. Between the bowcaster and his own heavy gun, it doesn't withstand more than a few shots before crumbling with a wail.

[icanfix]

One on one, yeah, Rey might be better off with the lightsaber than without — but Rey has no intention of being one-on-one with these things. She's happy to keep back, letting the seasoned fighters fight on the frontline while she offers supporting fire.