Hey everybird! What's up!?

There's nothing to say at the moment, so lets just get to today's questions and then we'll get on with the next chapter!

Today's question is this:

What occupation would you like to have in the Star Wars universe, it can be anything, pilot, smuggler, bounty hunter, stormtrooper, Jedi etc.?

Me: Well it is obvious, but I would very much like to be a hotshot X-Wing pilot, of course, like Poe or Luke!

Moving on to your questions…

From Stormknight089, he asks, "If we were lightsaber dueling ( like I mentioned in the last question ), and I had the High Ground, what would you do?

Me: Well I wouldn't do what Anakin did… Seeing how well that turned out for him… Instead I would just run somewhere else and make you follow me and find another advantage.

From T8ECR34TOR, "Do you ever feel like that despite how big they make it look, the Star Wars galaxy just feels a little small?"

Me: Well to be honest not really… They're always exploring new worlds in every movie and the TV shows and I'm sure we'll see more in the upcoming movies/TV shows in the future.

Chapter 23: First Blows

(Tyler's POV)

Following Arthur's lead, the upcoming contacts Alex and Ashley were picking up came closer and closer, eventually they were within visual range as Arthur's voice came through the comm unit, nice and slow, trying not be fearful, but could tell he was.

"Okay Tyler, lets hide behind that wrecked star destroyer, hopefully its mass will hide us from sensors and visuals." Arthur told me.

"Copy that." I replied as we flew very close by a wrecked star destroyer, using its mass to hide us as its massive gray hull casted a shadow over our fighters, everything going black as Arthur told me to observe comm silence and Alex and Ashley to low power mode.

And in a few seconds they came, a large black shuttle, just like the one we encountered back when I was being rescued by my family. On either side were two smaller troop transports and in a defensive circle around the three crafts was a squadron of those new TIE fighters. Well soon enough that ring started to break apart as they spread out, in pairs as they searched the debris field, most likely they were making sure their way out was safe or…

"I don't like this Arthur, I think they know we're here…" I broke comm silence as I tightened my grip on the trigger, ready to fire my laser cannons.

"Easy, if they knew we were here, they would be on top of us already." Arthur replied, remaining calm as I couldn't, keeping my wing ready on the trigger as the TIEs came closer and closer…

Eventually they came too close for comfort…

"I can't take it anymore!" I yelled as I powered up my engines and flew out of the shadow hiding me, revealing myself as I quickly targeted the closet TIE to me, blowing it apart as its wing partner took evasive action.

"Captain!" Arthur shouted at me. "What did you do!?"

"Hey, we came here to fight and that's what I'm doing!" I yelled back as I chased the TIE's wing partner.

"Dammit Tyler!" Arthur cursed as he himself had to fly out of the hiding spot to avoid getting hunted. "Tally, we need backup now! Inform Black Squadron we need them here!" Arthur communicated out.

"Copy that commander, on the way!" Tally replied back as Arthur caught up to me as I was busy acquiring the second TIE in my crosshairs, careful to avoid its rear arc of fire as I had to chase it through the debris, which it tried to escape using them.

"Almost there, almost there…" I told myself as the crosshairs came closer and closer until I finally managed to get a solid lock, to which I hit the trigger, sending out several bursts of fire, which hit the TIE, shedding it apart and securing another kill. "Too easy!" I shouted out loud as Arthur spoke to me.

"Captain!" Arthur shouted at me, clearly very upset at my actions. "We're going to discuss you not listening to my orders, but for now, we need to find that shuttle and transports and shoot them down, whatever they got has to be on them."

"Copy that sir, lead the way." I replied, only as I finished, green laser fire came from behind, arching its way to Arthur and I as I looked down to see the shields in the read starting to go from green to yellow, so I quickly took a sharp right turn, flying behind some debris. "Arthur! You still here!" I shouted as luckily he was.

"Yeah, a little busy right now because of you!" Arthur replied as he was clearly being chased himself.

"Come on Tally… Where are you?" I said as the TIE continued its pursue of me, not letting me get out of its sights as I tried to escape using the debris field. "Okay Ashley, time for some fancy flying…" I told the droid riding behind me, only Ashley reported the TIE was destroyed as no more green laser fire came at me.

"Looks like you landed in some trouble, you're lucky I came just in time too." Tally's voice cut in as she chuckled.

"Very funny Tally…" I rolled my eyes. "And thank you." I said seriously.

"You're welcome and don't worry, Blue Five and Six went to help the commander, they should finish off his attacker about now I would say." Tally informed me and sure enough.

"Thanks Tally for the save, feel like I should promote you when we get back." Arthur's voice cut in.

"Thank you commander." Tally replied, I could tell she was most likely blushing.

"Alright Blue Squadron, Alex has located the position of the remaining enemy forces, lets go get them." Arthur ordered.

"Yes sir." I happily replied as the squadron regrouped, luckily so far we still had our six fighters all ready without a dent in them.

Only we were out of luck as the two TIEs which chased after Arthur and I brought their own forces enough time to get clear of the debris field and start making the jump to hyperspace. As soon as we got within visual range, the black shuttle was the first to go, followed by the two transports and surprisingly the TIEs as they themselves could make the jump. This was very surprising because TIEs usually did not come equipped with hyperdrives like our X-Wings. As we got closer, four of the TIEs, most likely covering the retreat of their forces, engaged us.

Quickly locking onto one of the incoming TIEs, I waited for the solid green lock and for the TIE to come within range as I was about to fire, only bursts of red laser fire appeared from behind me as the shots impacted all the TIEs, blowing them apart as black colored X-Wings roared right above my cockpit.

"Someone called for a little help?" Poe's voice came in as the new arriving X-Wings swung back around.

"What took you so long Poe?" Arthur's voice joked.

"Well you know, just wanted to make sure you and your squadron had their fun too." Poe laughed right back. "And looks like your squadron's still in one piece, good job."

"Thanks." Arthur replied. "Well, no more enemies to fight now, time to head back I guess."

"Copy that, Black Squadron, see your hyperdrives for D'Qar." Poe told his squadron while Arthur did the same.

As we entered the dark blue tunnel of hyperspace, I smiled at the result of this mission, despite us not really finding out much, we took no losses at all and inflicted a number of losses on the enemy. More fights like this and I knew this would be easy. Only as I knew when we got back, I would have to endure something worse than being fired at by a chasing TIE fighter…

A hyperspace trip later, back on D'Qar…

Opening my cockpit and taking off my helmet, I was met right away by my brother, my superior officer, with his wings on his hips and staring at me with a stern look on his face.

"Look, I know what I did was wrong brother, but we got it and we're still alive aren't we?" I started to argue.

"What you don't understand brother, is the chain of command…" Arthur said sternly. "And in this squadron, it starts with me, and you are to listen to my every order, no matter what." Arthur continued as I climbed down from the cockpit

"Yeah, but what if your order was wrong and got us killed…" I shot back as I was back down on the ground, now face to face with Arthur.

"That is still not your decision to make captain…" Arthur getting closer to my face. "Next time you disobey a direct order, you're grounded."

"Am I interrupting something?" Grandpa Blu's voice came in.

"No sir, we were almost finished anyway." Arthur replied quickly as he turned around as we both saluted.

"Good, because General Organa is expecting a debriefing from you two as well as Poe." Grandpa Blu said.

"Yes sir." Arthur replied as we followed him into the main part of the base, where General Organa was waiting.

"Good, Commander Arthur, Captain Tyler, so glad you could join us." General Organa spoke as we arrived. "So what can you two tell me that will be useful."

"Well general…" Arthur clearing his throat as he spoke. "Seems they were not going after whatever was in the debris field, but whatever was down on Endor's surface, whatever they got we have no idea."

"Well, that would make sure, there was an Imperial base and the shield generator for the Death Star down there." General Organa thought.

"Only General Solo blew the base up in order to disable the shield generator so the Alliance could destroy the Death Star." Grandpa Blu pointed out. "There is no possible way to retrieve anything from that destruction."

"There's anyways something that could survive Colonel…" General Organa thought. "We just need to figure out what exactly could survive an explosive blast."

"There's something else general…" I spoke up, taking a step froward. "These new TIE fighters not only have their rear covered, but they are also equipped with hyperdrives, like our own fighters are." I reported.

"Well that explains why we still have not seen any capital ships, they don't need a star destroyer to ferry them around." Grandpa Blu said as General Organa took note.

"Thank you captain, that is some useful information." General Organa smiled.

"But general…" Arthur returned. "We failed in our primary objective, we didn't find out what they wanted."

"Some missions may fail commander, not every one can succeed and any information, even if we didn't intend to find out, is helpful." General Organa walking up to me keeping her smile. "Now, you and your squadron take a rest, that's an order."

"Yes general." Arthur saluted back as he and I left.

"You didn't tell the general what happened?" I asked, confused that my brother wouldn't report my fool hardy move.

"Best the general doesn't know, but next time listen to my orders, I'm just trying to look after you brother." Arthur finally smiling at me.

"I'll try my best brother." I smiled back. "And thanks."

"You're welcome, now I think we were going to call mom and dad, they will surely miss us a lot." Arthur changing the subject as we headed off to our quarters, going in and closing the door as Alex called mom and dad, reaching out to Easy, my droid before I was given Alex.

And luckily, they answered, mom and dad's holographic image being projected by Alex as they were so happy to see us.

"Sons, thank goodness you finally called." Mom smiled as she then turned to look at Alex. "And how's my favorite buddy doing?" Mom asking the R2 unit, to which Alex gave back happy beeps. "Good to hear buddy, Easy isn't so easy to work with, at least compared to you Alex."

"So how are you doing mom and dad?" I asked. "Are you being given a hard time?"

"Well boys, some are a little wary of us because you two are with the Resistance, but your mother and I don't care what they say, we both know you two are doing the right thing." Dad reassured us.

"And we couldn't be prouder of you two." Mom added. "So, gone on any missions yet, how were they?"

"Well…" Arthur said nervously while he looked at me and I looked back at him. "It's a long story…"

"We got time son." Dad pressing us to go on.

And so Arthur and I explained what happened at Endor, leaving not a single detail out and while we sounded so confident, our parents were a little worried still, but thats parents for you. Turns out despite how confident Arthur and I sounded, more shocking news would soon come which would change a whole lot of things…

Now some of you may be thinking that Leia should have known about Vader's corpse, but also I don't think Luke would have ever told anyone, even his sister about him burning Vader's body, so that's my reasoning there.

Anyway… When I say shocking news… Well it may not be so shocking, but it will certainly reveal a name of some sort…

With that…

See everybird later!