Ugh. I finally finish a chapter and I have to give bad news. Here it is: I'll be out of town from July 18 until July 31, and August is going to be a really busy month. I'll try to update as much as possible once I get back, but no promises. Feel free to keep reviewing and following and favoriting and stuff while I'm gone, BUT NO BUGGING FOR NEW CHAPTERS. I won't have my computer with me :( Anyway, here's chapter 13.

I do not own Star Wars and/or Percy Jackson. Which makes me sad.

Finn's POV:

As we walked through the streets of "New York City"—what Percy and Annabeth called it—I couldn't help but be amazed at just how advanced it was, even without the use of grav-lift technology.

The buildings were massive, like the ones I had heard were on Coruscant and Hosnian Prime, but words just couldn't do them justice. The people . . . it amazed me just how many humans could be in one area at a time. I was used to seeing multispecies planets, so this was new to me. The "sidewalks" were jam-packed with pedestrians, all with their own purpose and destination. I felt out of place, but at the same time, completely where I should have been. It was an incredible feeling.

After a few blocks, a woman and a child—I assumed her daughter—stopped us.

"Oh my goodness, sorry to disturb you, but my daughter here loves Star Wars. I can't believe you guys are just here! No security or anything! Could we pose for a picture with you? Maybe an autograph?" the mother asked.

I looked at Rey and Poe. They shrugged. "Sure, why not?" Rey said.

We got into position with the little girl and smiled while the woman used a small metal rectangle with a light in one corner to "take a picture". Afterwards, we were asked to sign a notebook. Luckily, we'd been taught the characters people here used to write, so we weren't signing our names in Basic. The little girl gave Rey a hug, and then they rushed off to wherever they had been headed.

"That was odd," Rey commented.

"Ah, you guys could be doppelgängers for movie stars. Consider it a complement! If they knew what Annabeth and I have been doing the past couple of years for them, they'd be asking for the same thing from us!" Percy joked. Annabeth punched him in the arm.

"What did you do?" I asked.

"Saved the world a couple of times, defended Manhattan from a Titan army, defeated giants, gone to Tartarus and back . . . The list goes on and on." Percy smiled. "Good fun."

We walked in silence for a little bit. I had just realized how absolutely hot out it was. For me, growing up on the snowy Starkiller Base and air-vented Star Destroyers, it was almost as unbearable as Jakku had been. I had sweat pouring down my back, as, from the look of it, did Poe, Annabeth, and Percy. Rey looked a bit cold.

"This weather is beautiful. How are you guys sweating so much! I'm even a little chilly. I went through temperatures twice this on Jakku!" she said in disbelief. "Wimps."

"Says the girl who can't get through a temperature below twenty without a winter coat," Poe commented.

Percy looked astonished. "And you can?"

Annabeth punched him again.

"What?" he asked.

"It's Celsius! They use the metric system!"

"Oh. My bad."

I couldn't help but smile. They were hilarious together.

A few minutes later we finally, finally, made it to this "Empire State Building" of theirs.

"You sure it has nothing to do with the Empire?" Poe asked. "Cause I don't need any more stormtroopers and Imperials to deal with. No offence, Finn."

"None taken." I liked other stormtroopers even less than Poe. I left that life behind when I rescued him.

"No. It has nothing to do with the Empire. C'mon, let's get out of the heat," Percy reassured him.

We stepped inside, and Percy and Annabeth led us to the front desk. The man sitting there recognized them immediately.

"Okay, I'll let you two in, but what about the others?" he asked.

"The girl's a demigod, the two guys are her mortal friends. The mortals'll wait down here with me for Annabeth and Rey," Percy informed him. Wait, he's waiting with us? I thought.

"Good. Rey? As in—"

"No. Annabeth knows the drill." The man behind the desk handed Annabeth a card, and she led Rey to a lift. They stepped inside, and the doors closed behind them.

I turned to Percy. "Why did you stay with us?"

"So I could show you around my city! Sorry, last minute change of plans. Figured the less people we send up, the better. Annabeth is on better terms with most of the gods than me. I have a, um, tendency to say things I shouldn't." He turned and headed towards the door. "You coming?"