Hey everybird! What's up!?

So sorry about the delay, I was planning on getting this done on Sunday, but I got sick and yesterday was worse… I'm a lot better today, still a little bit sick, but well enough now!

Also, if you don't remember, Ilum was actually in the The Clone Wars series, it was the episode where Ashoka brings a group of Jedi Younglings to the planet to find the proper crystals for their new lightsabers and they meet Yoda who instructs them.

Anyway, today's question is…

What is thy bidding, my master?

And moving on to your questions…

From T8ECR34TOR, he asks, "Have you ever seen any Star Wars scenes that you felt were too tedious?"

Me: Not any specific scene I can think of right now… Maybe the scenes where they go way into politics in the prequel trilogy.

From Nightfly123, he asks, "What other Star Wars stories have you got planned?"

Me: Right now I don't have any planned, I think after this story is done I'm taking a break and doing other things.

From Stormknight089, he asks, "Have you ever seen "The Chronicles of Narnia?"

Me: Yes I have, multiple times and I love them! In fact I'm still waiting for when they will do the movie adaptations for the other books they have yet to do!

Chapter 27: The Great Escape

(Tyler's POV)

As Arthur, Alex and I made our way out of the caves, approaching the temple area and then to the outside, our way was soon enough blocked as we saw white clad troopers, being led by a trooper in gold, come in, blasters held at the ready as they fanned out, slowly coming toward us. We hid behind some of the temple pillars as we all knew we had to fight our way out and hopefully Ashley was there with the fighters so we could escape.

"This isn't looking good brother." I whispered to Arthur as he was hiding behind another pillar with Alex.

"I know, but surrender isn't an option here, we have to get back and report on what we seen." Arthur replied as he turned on his communicator to try to reach Ashley. "Ashley, come in, you here?" Arthur spoke as all that greeted him was static.

"The storm must be making comms difficult." I suggested.

"Or they're being jammed…" Arthur adding as he held onto his blaster pistol with one of his wings, the wing that was connected to his injured shoulder as he peeked out slightly, seeing two troopers come towards them. "Okay, on my mark…"

I held my blaster pistol tightly as I heard the soft crunching of the snow on the temple floor underneath the trooper's feet as I flicked off the safety as Arthur waited and waited until…

"Now!" Arthur shouted as we both revealed ourselves, the two troopers only a few feet away as they were surprised and caught off guard as Arthur and I fired off several shots, impairing the troopers' on their chest armor as they hit the floor.

Now with the rest of the troopers' attention turned to us, they took cover as they started shooting back, Arthur and I quickly grabbing the blasters dropped by the first two troopers we took down as Alex stayed behind us. And it was a good thing too…

"Freeze!" A trooper shouted from behind as he had his blaster raised and pointed at us, only as Arthur and I turned around, he was being shocked as electrical currents ran through his armor as he dropped, unconscious now as Alex rolled up, one of his robotic arms out which held an electric charge.

"Nice going Alex." I commented as Arthur and I returned to cover with our captured blasters, getting off as many shots as we could despite the greater amount of return fire as the troopers came closer and closer to us. "Now what brother, we can't stay here forever!"

"I'm open to any ideas!" Arthur shouted back as he snapped off a few shots at a trooper behind some cover.

Thinking, I then saw a solution as I looked at the trooper that Alex shocked, looking more specifically at a certain object on the trooper's belt…

"Cover me." I told Arthur.

"What are you doing?" Arthur asked.

"You're know in a few seconds, just cover me." I snapped at Arthur as I went to the knocked out trooper while Arthur sprayed blaster fire at any troopers who raised their heads to get off a shot.

Even still, some troopers managed to raise their heads, firing off a few shots, which came dangerously close to me and Alex as I, after a little struggle, took what I was looking for as I returned to cover.

"A thermal detonator!?" Arthur shouted at me. "Are you crazy, you'll bring the whole temple down on us!"

"You got a better idea?" I asked Arthur as I prepared the fuse, ready to throw the explosive device. "Just get ready to run." I told my brother as I took a deep breath.

Quickly standing up, I pressed the fuse on the detonator as I threw it as far as I could, the explosive device landing in the middle of the group of troopers as they ignored us to scramble for cover. And a couple seconds later, the detonator exploded, a bright orange and red explosion as it filled the temple area, shaking the ground a little as it flew up snow and frost, creating cover for Arthur, Alex, and I to escape through as we took it. As we ran to the outside, Arthur and I randomly fired through the mist created by the detonator, to keep the troopers' heads down as the detonator also caused icicles to snap free from the temple's roof, raining down as they threatened to pierce right through our heads as Arthur and I covered the top of our heads with our wings, however good that may do…

As fate would have it, or as everyone would say, the Force, we managed to make it out, our to discover a new obstacle in our path as two TIE fighters hovered in the air in front of us, their laser cannons pointing downward, ready to open fire and gun the three of us down.

"Ideas brother?" I asked Arthur as I had none…

Arthur just raised his blaster and started to shoot, his blaster shots of course useless against a heavily armed TIE fighter or so we thought as the one Arthur was shooting suddenly exploded in flames as Arthur looked down at his blaster, confused as I. However it wasn't Arthur as our X-Wings flew into view, Ashley of course controlling them as she fired off the laser cannons from my fighter, shredding apart the second TIE as she landed down our fighters.

"Way to go Ashley!" Arthur shouted happily to the droid as she beeped back a "Thank you".

As Ashley landed down the fighters, blaster shots snapped by as the troopers from inside the temple recovered and were now chasing after us as Arthur and I ran to our fighters, climbing up and into the open cockpits as Alex quickly got into his socket in Arthur's X-Wing. Closing the cockpit, I took over the controls and turned on the shields, the troopers' blaster shots now harmlessly being absorbed by my fighter's shields as I lifted up the fighter, preparing to head up and away.

"Lets go home brother." I spoke to Arthur through comms.

"Certainly." Arthur agreed as we blasted off into the atmosphere, through the thick clouds as the troopers' blaster fire trailed off as we headed back into space.

As we prepared for the hyperspace jump back to D'Qar, Ashley was beeping at me about something.

"What is it girl?" I asked the droid as she told me to look as I turned my head to see what Ashley was going on about and… "Arthur, is it just me or are you also seeing what I'm seeing?"

"Yeah…" Arthur said, shocked. "It's a star destroyer, only… it looks different from what I have seen in the history books… It's bigger as well. Alex, Ashley, make sure you snap some images for when we get back and report to the General." Arthur telling the two droids as they answered back with some beeps as Arthur and I focused on finishing up the coordinates for the hyperspace jump.

"Arthur, we got TIE fighters incoming and what looks like missile trails from the star destroyer." I reported as I saw the incoming threats with my eyes.

"Alex, Ashley, you two done?" Arthur asked as he knew we needed to get out of here now as the two droids replied back with a positive "Yes" as I had the coordinates all set for the trip back. "Okay than, Tyler, hyperspace now." Arthur told me as I saw him make the jump as I then pressed the button, just in time as the missiles from the star destroyer were very close to hitting me.

I held my sigh of relief until we reached D'Qar and I knew we were back safe and out of danger as I had to take off my helmet, sweat wetting my head feathers as I felt a little sore.

"Ashley, take over for me will you?" I asked the droid as she took over the final approach down to the base as Arthur and I landed, ground crews coming over as I saw Grandpa Blu as well, with a look of relief on his face, as my fighter touched back down on solid ground, Grandpa Blu came up and greeted me.

"Tyler, glad you're back son." Grandpa Blu smiled.

"Thank you sir, but Arthur needs medical attention right now." I told Grandpa Blu as Arthur heard that, as he landed down next to me as he struggled a little to get out from his cockpit.

"I'm fine, it's just a scratch." Arthur groaned as he almost fell down as Grandpa Blu turned his attention to my brother.

"Arthur, report to the medical bay right no, that's an order." Grandpa Blu said a little sternly as he saw Arthur's injured shoulder.

"But sir, the debriefing…" Arthur began.

"Captain Tyler can take care of that, you need to get your shoulder taken care of if you're going to continue fighting." Grandpa Blu not giving this another thought.

"I got this brother, don't worry." I told Arthur as he was helped by a couple of Resistance soldiers as Arthur went to the medical bay.

"Well, lets not keep the General waiting captain." Grandpa Blu spoke to me as he was sure that Arthur was going to the medical bay.

"Right sir, boy do I have a report to deliver…" I said as I got down from my fighter. "Come on Ashley." I told my droid as she got down from her socket in the fighter and joined me as we headed down to the main part of the base, where General Organa was looking over some things on a holoprojector.

"General." Grandpa Blu addressing the General as he and I saluted, until we were acknowledged.

"Colonel Blu, Captain Tyler." General Organa returning the salute. "Where is Commander Arthur?"

"In the medical bay General, the commander suffered a slight injury, Captain Tyler is here however to deliver the report on the mission he and the commander took." Grandpa Blu announced.

"Well, than by all means, what do you have for me captain, is the First Order using Kyber crystals?" General Organa asked.

"We have no confirmation of that General, the only thing the commander and I found was a probe droid of a new design in the caves, most likely from the First Order." I began. "However we encountered a small party of troopers who came, most likely to scout out the caves, I don't think they were expecting anyone else to be there."

"They're probably just starting to search for more crystals than, if there are any left that is…" General Organa thought out loud as I continued with my report.

"We also encountered something new and most revealing…" I said as I turned to Ashley who was behind me. "Ashley, show the general." I told the droid as she beeped back and plugged into the holoprojector as the images she took of the star destroyer type ship, showed up.

"It's a star destroyer of some kind." I reported.

"So they do have capital ships…" Grandpa Blu wide eyed.

"How many did you two see?" General Organa asked me.

"Just one, but I doubt they have just that one." I answered. "However we also learned they have some defenses against fighters, we saw missiles fire out towards us and almost got us, likely we got into hyperspace just in time."

"Most likely…" General Organa putting a wing to her chin. "And if they do have defenses against fighters, they are more dangerous than Imperial era ships, thank you captain, we'll be sure to pass this information to our allies in the Senate, hopefully with this piece of information, it will help sway more to our cause. You are dismissed, rest up."

"Thank you General." I saluted as the General saluted back as I left with Grandpa Blu as I had one more thing to say…

"Sir, I do have one thing to say…" I spoke to Grandpa Blu.

"Yes captain, what is it?" Grandpa Blu replied.

"Sir, next mission you send Arthur and I, please don't send us to a snowy planet." I requested, half joking as Grandpa Blu laughed as he put a wing on my shoulder.

"I'll try captain, now go see your brother and how he's doing." Grandpa Blu told me as I went to see Arthur and by the time I got to the medical bay, his shoulder was all patched up and would heal with a little time.

As Arthur and I rested up from our mission together, we both wondered now that we knew the First Order was even more powerful than we first thought, how much more difficult the fight will become…

And I'll end it off on there!

I hope the wait was worth it and thank you for your patience!

See everybird later!