Hey everybird! What's up!?

So before we get to today's questions, a quick word…

For those of you who don't know, one of the more older writers on here is going through some rough times and really needs some cheering up. Alex The Owl, who you may know as the creator of the Super Rio series as well as the Rio Awards. He's a nice guy and done a lot, so I think he would appreciate it if you at least sent him a message making sure he's doing alright!

Moving on to today's question…

What is your most favorite story arc from Star Wars: The Clone Wars?

Me: I would have to go with either the Geonosis arc, which was Season 2, episodes 5 to 8 or the Malevolence arc, which was the first season, episodes 2 to 4. Fun fact on the Malevolence arc and I guess a reason why I liked that one is because once I read an article on that talked about this arc and how the writers based it off on the story of the Royal Navy's hunt for the German battleship, the Bismarck. Being a lover of World War II naval history, the story of the Bismarck is along my most favorite and seeing a Star Wars treatment of it made me love it more!

Going on to your questions…

From Stormknight089, he asks, "So what do you think so far?"

Me: Okay, well now that I know, I'm honestly going to have to say "No". Amazonian Life was meant to be a Slice of Life kind of series, nothing more or less, a series about birds having superhero abilities is not what I have in mind and again… To be honest, it would ruin it.

From T8ECR34TOR, he asks, "If they had ever decided to continue with the 3D Star Wars Premieres Plan, would you have wanted that?"

Me: Well maybe… I'm not really into 3D all that much, I think just the regular 2D is fine as it is, but for Star Wars, I might make an exception.

Chapter 16: A New Enemy

(Tyler's POV)

With the squadron all ready to go, jumping into their X-Wings and having their droids lowered into the socket behind the cockpit, we lifted off from the hangar floor with Commander Felipe in the lead as we filed out and took formation, heading away from the cruiser and shipyards to have a clear jump to hyperspace.

"Okay Blue Squadron, hyperspace in three, two…" Felipe spoke through comms as I reached for the hyperspace button, pressing it as soon as I saw the fighters ahead of me make the jump, the blackness of space turning into a white tunnel of light.

"Flawless so far…" I told myself as now all I had to do was sit back and enjoy not having to fly for the hyperspace trip as Commander Felipe's voice once again cut in.

"Okay Blue Squadron, here's our mission." Felipe spoke. "We scan for any sign of Dagger Squadron's patrol, find them if we can and bring them back home. If something or someone confronted the patrol, well consider them potentially hostile if we find them, but do not open fire unless fired upon or I give the order."

Answers of "Copy that" came in from my squadmates as I wondered if I could really hold my fire, I must admit, I was even more reckless than my brother, it was hard not for me to get into a fight.

"Blue Six, do you copy?" Felipe spoke to me personally as I was the only one left to understand the order.

"Yes sir, sorry sir." I answered back through comms as I switched it off so I can have my privacy and my own thoughts. "But I'm going to start shooting if I have to…"

Eventually after a trip of a few hours, we arrived near Atzerri, the planet itself a bit further away as there was a small asteroid field neat the planet. I guess that was where Dagger Squadron was lost, most likely interference while in the field made them lose comms.

"Commander, the patrol might be in that field, I suggest we start our search there." I heard my brother suggest over comms as the squadron held position for the time being.

"Good idea Blue Five." Felipe replied. "Alright Blue Squadron, turn on your lights and follow me." Felipe ordered as the squadron turned on the lights that were on each of the top wings as we headed into the field, using the lights to see behind the shadows of the space rocks.

So far there was nothing as we got deeper and deeper into the field, the only excitement coming from dodging the rocks as I followed my brother, who was my wing partner.

"See anything yet brother?" Arthur's voice asked me through comms.

"Nothing yet…" I replied as I started getting a funny feeling. "Lucy, you got anything on the scanners?" I asked my droid as she beeped back a positive "No", the asteroids making it tough to use the scanners effectively as I had to relay mostly on what my own eyes could see.

Flying through the field even further, I felt that maybe the patrol returned and forgot to check in or something, only that thought disappeared as Lucy got something.

"What is it girl?" I asked my droid as she beeped back that she had something unfamiliar in an asteroid field. "Commander Felipe, Lucy has something, sending the location now."

"Got it Blue Six." Felipe replied as he spoke to the whole squadron. "Alright Blue Squadron, looks like we may have found the patrol, lets go."

Quickly regrouping, the squadron flew carefully to the location, making sure to keep watch of our surroundings as we arrived…

"Oh no…" I said to myself as the squadron stopped and saw the patrol or well what was left of them… "What happened?" I questioned.

Along the field was the wreckage of several T-85 X-Wings, no longer the clean, sleek fighters they were, they were hunks of twisted fighter bodies and wings, blackened marks of what looked like laser fire on them. And what was worst… All the pilots were dead and their droids along with them.

"This isn't good…" I heard my brother speak.

"There's nothing we can do for them now Blue Squadron…" Commander Felipe's voice came in as he tried to stay calm and thin clearly on what to do next. "Okay, I'm going to call for backup, until than we stay…"

"What is it Lucy?" I heard my droid wailing at me as all of a sudden green laser fire came from above, if I didn't have quick reflexes, the shots, which were leading towards me would have hit as I did a roll to the right, kicking my fighter into top speed. "What just happened!?" I yelled out as the green laser fire followed me.

"Tyler! Tyler!" I heard my brother's voice crackle in. "Are you okay!?"

"Yeah, I think I got one on me, but I can't see him!" I shouted back.

"Hang on, I'm fixing on your location!" Arthur called back as I made myself a hard target to hit, using the asteroids as cover as I tried to shake whoever was chasing after me.

"Hurry up brother…" I said softly as I don't know how much longer I could do this as I kept the deflector shields strong in the back of the fighter.

(Arthur's POV)

I can't believe it… Whoever got the missing patrol… Well dead patrol now… ambushed us as well, luckily we brought the whole squadron or else once again all that would be left are wrecks of X-Wings floating about. Coming out of the hard dive I took to avoid the incoming fire at myself, I regained my senses from it as I focused on finding Tyler. Looking around me, I saw my squadmates and…

"It can't be… TIE fighters…" I told myself with beak hung open as I couldn't believe it, only these TIE fighters looked a lot different from the pictures I seen in the history books of the war, but I couldn't focus on that now, I needed to find Tyler.

"Easy, see if you can find Tyler, and fast!" I ordered my droid. "And make sure the shields are running strong, I didn't need a lucky shot killing us." I added in as I looked throughout the mess of things for my brother.

And it wasn't looking good… I saw at least three of my squadmates fall, hearing their final cries through comms as I tried to hide away my emotions. I knew I should have been helping the squadron as a whole, but Tyler is my brother, I can't just ignore him. After a couple of minutes, Easy finally got Tyler's location pinned, and thankfully he was still flying.

"Hang on brother, I'm coming!" I called as I held the flight stick tight and flew faster towards my brother's location, as I finally saw my brother's fighter, I saw one of those TIE fighters trying to shoot him, coming closer and closer to securing the kill.

"Hurry up brother!" Tyler shouted through comms. "Shields are going into the red!"

"Almost there…" I called back as I focused, taking the flight stick and coming right behind my brother's attacker, going in for the kill as I decided to get closer so my shots wouldn't accidentally hit my brother. "Just a little closer…" I told myself as soon enough my target was so close that I wasn't sure to miss.

However the same also goes to my target as suddenly green laser fire came out from its back and started impacting my shields with great force. If I didn't pull up quickly, I would be killed myself as I was shocked… No TIE fighters that I knew of has any backward firepower!

"Arthur, what's taking so long!?" Tyler's voice came back. "He got through my shields and…"

"Tyler…" I called as only static came. "Tyler!" I shouted as the TIE that shot at me came back around for me as Easy alerted me. "Okay, you want me, come get me!" I flew between the asteroids as the TIE chased me.

Waiting for an opportunity, I dived down quickly, hiding behind an asteroid as my pursuer didn't expect this and continued flying straight, thinking that maybe I flee. Only I didn't as I came from above, pressing the trigger as I sent burst after burst of red laser fire until the TIE exploded in my cockpit view.

"Should have looked harder buddy…" I said as I now focused on getting back to Tyler, flying back to where he was… It wasn't good… "Tyler, Tyler, can you hear me?" I asked as I flew circles around my brother's battered and slightly smoking fighter.

And with luck and relief, Tyler answered back, although not sounding too good as he was constantly coughing and sounded weak through the comm unit.

"Arthur, you got him?" Tyler asked.

"Yeah, got him good, but what's important right now is you, are you okay?" I asked, very concerned.

"A little banged up, but I'll be fine." Tyler answered. "Lucy's still good as well."

"Good, can you fly?" I then asked.

"Lucy's trying to see what she can do, but for now I can't, engines, shields, and weapons are all down, Lucy saving a little power for my life support." Tyler reported.

"Just hold on brother, we'll get you out." I said confidently as Commander Felipe's voice cut in.

"To all remaining Blue Squadron members who can hear this, regroup and prepare for the jump to hyperspace." Felipe ordered. "My droid's picking up additional contacts closing in fast."

"With all due respect sir, I can't leave my wing partner." I told Felipe, choosing to disobey the direct order.

"Blue Five, that is an order, we stay, we all die, we need to get back to report on what happened here, the New Republic needs this information." Felipe stressed.

"Sir, he's my brother, I won't leave him…" Taking things to a personal level as Felipe sighed.

"Listen Arthur, I know, but we need to go, I promise we'll come back with a bigger force to rescue him." Felipe said back as Tyler then talked to me.

"Arthur go…" Tyler coughed. "Get out of here, I'll be fine big brother… Please…"

Closing my eyes as tears escaped, I made the hard decision…

"Easy, plot us the fastest route out of this asteroid field and lets regroup with the others." I told my droid as he got to work.

A trip through hyperspace later…

Coming out of hyperspace, arriving back over the shipyards of Anaxes, the first thing I did was take off my helemt and throw it hard against the glass cockpit, not caring if the glass began to crack and then open myself to the vacuum of space, which luckily it didn't. Taking a second to calm myself down, I touched down inside the hangar with what remained of the squadron, which was only half of us that managed to survive and make it back.

Once I landed my fighter, I got down and went straight to my quarters, throwing myself on the bed as I collapsed into sleep, seemingly exhausted by all the emotions flowing into me. I'm not sure how long I was out, but when I woke up, I saw…

"Mom, dad, Grandpa Blu?" I said shocked as I just hugged onto my mom, who was closet to me. "What are you all doing here!?"

"We heard what happened Arthur." Blu answered. "And we're here to help."

"However clearly, Fleet Command doesn't want to risk sending help, and escalate tensions with this new enemy." My dad added. "So we're going to have to do this ourselves."

"What do you mean dad?" I asked, confused.

"We're going to get your brother back, no matter what." Mom cleared things up as she put out a wing for me to take and help me up. "Whoever these guys are, lets show them they messed with the wrong family…"

Oh it's on now! I hope you're all excited for the return of Lisa and Tiago fighting! I know I am!

I think that's pretty much it for now, so…

See everybird later!