Hey everybird! What's up!?

So I should have held posting the last chapter because shortly after a new trailer popped up for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order! And man was it awesome! I can already tell it's going to be one of the best Star Wars games made so far!

So I guess this ties to today's question and that is…

What color would you like your own lightsaber to be?

Me: I would have to go with the bright blue of Anakin's lightsaber or the white color of Ashoka's lightsabers from Star Wars Rebels.

Moving on to today's questions…

From Stormknight089, he asks, "Do you think you'll continue the story "a small chance"?"

Me: To be honest I don't know right now, I have many other ideas to do.

From T8ECR34TOR, he asks, "Have you ever seen a movie that you thought you wouldn't enjoy, but then loved it in the end?"

Me: I think I will have to say The Maze Runner, didn't think I would enjoy it because it's like one of those movies my sister would enjoy and we have very different tastes in movies, but saw the first one and I loved it! And I'm very glad that The Death Cure eventually came out after its delay.

From Nightfly123, he asks, "Do you think you might write a Batman story in the future, involving your OC Alex?"

Me: Okay, simple answer here… No.

Chapter 29: Lives for a Life

(Tyler's POV)

I knew right away that when Arthur's voice came over on comms and he told the squadron that if they wanted to run, they could, but he was staying, I knew I was going to stay even without Arthur telling me. I wasn't going to allow Grandpa Blu to be interrogated and tortured by the First Order, at least not without a fight first, as I opened my wings into attack position, answers from the rest of the squadron came in as they were all going to stay.

"So what's the plan brother?" I asked as I saw Grandpa Blu's being pulled ever more closer to the star destroyer.

Before Arthur could answer back, an angry voice greeted my comms as it was Grandpa Blu's…

"Blue Squadron, I gave you a direct order to retreat!" Grandpa Blu's voice cut in as Arthur answered back.

"With all due respect sir, no." Arthur answered calmly. "We're getting you and everyone on that ship out of here."

"You can court martial us when we get back sir if you like, all of us, we know what we all signed up for when we joined the Resistance." I added as I redirected comms to only talk to my brother. "So brother, how are we going to do this?" I asked as I noticed the star destroyer, as well as pulling the much smaller corvette towards it, also fired off volleys of turbolaser fire on Hays Minor's surface, intent on destroying the colony, luckily we managed to get the occupants out, well before half of them were vaporized when the other CR 90 blew up…

"Alex thinks he located the tractor beam projectors and looking at it visually, I can pinpoint the location of them…" Arthur thought. "We just need to destroy them and then the corvette can escape and jump to hyperspace."

"Sounds easy enough, but I think they finally noticed us…" I said as I saw streaks of missiles fire out, rocketing towards us. "Blue Squadron, take evasive action!" I yelled, before Arthur could say it as I twisted and spun my fighter around as the squadron broke off into their pairs.

"Blue Squadron, bait those missiles, make them fly into each other's crosshairs to take them out!" Arthur shouted. "Come on Tyler, lets get to work."

"Copy that, lead the way." I replied back as Arthur sped up as I followed his lead.

Looking around, I could see the squadron desperately try to shake off the missiles as I saw others use any moment they could to try and shoot the missiles on their flight, some shots missed, others impacted as a few explosions from the missiles lit up the blackness of space. However, despite how skillful and fast we were moving, some missiles caught up to their targets…

"Blue Eight, hurry up, bait that missile already!" I shouted into comms as I noticed one of the X-Wings, with eight blue stripes on his wings, try to lose a couple of missiles on his tail.

"I'm trying!" Blue Eight shouted back. "They're too fast, I'm not going to be able to…" Blue Eight's last words spoke as I saw the missiles impacted his fighter, shredding it to pieces as I heard the pilot scream out before his comm line became silent…

"There's nothing we can do for him Tyler, come on." Arthur spoke to me as a new voice entered through.

"Blue Leader, I'm having trouble over here!" Tally's voice came in. "I lost my wing partner and I got several missiles on me!"

"Hang on Tally, we're coming!" I shouted as I sped up, passing my brother as I spoke to Ashley. "Ashley, quick, pinpoint Blue Three's location!" I told the droid as she took only a couple of seconds before she got it and I looked to see Tally alone with three missiles hot on her.

Tightening my grip on the trigger, I fired off burst after burst of red laser fire, watching as my shots found their mark, hitting one of them as the explosion caused the other two to go off in a spectacular show.

"Yeah, take that!" I shouted out loud as I spoke to Tally. "You're all clear Blue Three."

"Thanks sir, that was a close one." Tally thanked me as she breathed a sigh of relief.

"Nice going brother, although you could have waited for me." Arthur replied back as I chuckled before getting back to reality.

"Looks like they stopped firing missiles at us." I took note as I saw that the corvette was trying its hardest to resist being pulled against its will, to no avail, but at least it was buying time for us to try and knock out the tractor beams. "But we lost Blues Four, Eight, and Eleventh…" I read as Ashley gave me the status of the squadron.

"Well lets hope we don't lose anymore, Alex is reading multiple contacts coming from the destroyer's hangars…" Arthur replied as I saw a mass of black and silver dots come out of the destroyer's hangars and came towards us like a swarm of insects.

"Still think staying was a good idea brother?" I teased in the serious situation we were all in.

"Not the time for jokes Tyler…" Arthur snapped back at me as he got on comms to the whole squadron or well those of us still here… "Blue Squadron, all shields froward, try not to separate too much, and if you have an opening for the tractor beams, take it." Arthur issued out orders as the TIEs came within firing range of us, spraying their green lasers at us, hitting our shields as I dodged out of the way.

"Watch my back Ashley and keep your head down." I told the droid riding behind me as she beeped back at me very cooly, reminding me she has been under fire plenty of times already and was used to it.

Following Arthur, we chased after a couple of TIEs as their rear gunners shot at us, but we made sure to keep our fighters twisting and turning every so often, to make ourselves difficult targets as I waited for the right moment to fire. Dipping down a little, I then angled my fighter upwards, shooting my lasers at the bottom of the cockpit as the red lasers pierced through and back out on the top, exploding the fighter as the wings spun off before losing their momentum and drifting off.

"Nice shooting brother!" Arthur commented as I saw him turn his target into scrap metal as well, coming in from a 45 degree angle, his shots piercing through the wings as the TIE lost power because of that, slowing down as Arthur went for the kill, spraying more shots into the ball cockpit and finishing off his target.

"Blue Leader, I got three of them on my tail!" Blue Ten's voice came shouting in as I saw her fighter being chased down by three TIEs, eager to not lose her as she tried shaking them off as Tally's voice then cut in.

"Blue Leader, I'm seeing a gap in the TIE screen to the tractor beams." Tally reported as she sounded like she was busy chasing her own target.

"I copy Blue Three, Tyler, go help Blue Ten, I got the tractor beams." Arthur told me.

"Copy that." I replied as I split off from Arthur and pinpointed Blue Ten's location, seeing her just hanging on as I locked onto the closet TIE to me before sending off several bursts of fire, turning that TIE into debris as I quickly locked onto a second TIE and before the second one could react, he too was quickly done.

However the last TIE was persistent and took evasive action, not able to get a solid lock on him as the TIE still managed to keep pace with his own target while avoiding me. And things got more difficult as Ashley beeped to me that a TIE was behind us as I saw the green lasers fly past my cockpit, putting more power to the read shields, I told Ashley to handle him with the rotating underslung blaster cannon that was held inside the belly of the fighter, an improvement over the X-Wings mom and dad had because it provided some means of rear protection. However Arthur and I have yet to figure out how to use them for the squadron, but I knew Ashley was experienced enough to get the job done as I focused on the TIE chasing down Blue Ten.

As I tried getting the TIE I was chasing into my crosshairs, he kept making me lose my lock as Ashley got the blaster cannon out and started shooting back at the TIE chasing us.

"Come on Ashley, get him!" I told the droid as she beeped back at me to be patient as she zeroed in her shots, eventually finding her mark as the blaster cannon's shots hit the TIE, destroying our attacker, but it was too late for Blue Ten.

As I looked back at where Blue Ten was, the TIE chasing her got through her shielding and the shots burned through the back of the X-Wing before reaching the cockpit, filling it with flames as the X-Wing itself then exploded, sending debris everywhere.

"Blue Ten no!" I shouted as I quickly wiped away any tears with a wing before I became angry and this time managed to get a solid lock on the TIE that just killed Blue Ten, finally blowing him up.

"Tyler, come in, you still there?" Arthur asked. "Did you save Blue Ten?"

"No…" I answered back. "What about the tractor beams? Did you get them?"

"I'm having difficulty, I had to fight off a couple of TIEs and dodge the destroyer's defenses, only manage to get off a couple of torpedoes, but they didn't punch through the shields round the tractor beam station…" Arthur answered. "I think we have to get out of here, there's nothing more we can…"

"Blue Leader, this is Black Leader, I hope we didn't miss the party." Poe's voice cut in as I looked to see a dozen black colored X-Wings appear out of hyperspace and join in.

"Poe, I told you to get the transports out of here." Arthur snapped back.

"Don't worry, they're safe and heading back, you think I would leave you here alone?" Poe chuckled.

"Well I'm glad you came, we can surely use some help." Arthur joked back as I rolled my eyes because Arthur snapped at me earlier for making a joke.

"Copy that, coming in." Poe replied as he led his full squadron of black colored fighters into the fray, surprising the TIEs as they now seemed to blow up everywhere, creating a display of explosions that surely angered those up on the destroyer's bridge.

As Poe and his squadron cut a path through, everyone who had an angle on the tractor beams fired off their proton torpedoes, the missiles streaking towards their target in waves as the fist wave of missiles impacted and weakened the shields around that area as the second wave of torpedoes got through the wrecked havoc on that area of the destroyer as the corvette seemed to lunge downward a little, free from the pull of the beams.

"Black and Blue Squadrons, we are free, everyone head to the back of the destroyer and lets get out of here!" Grandpa Blu's voice cut in as he turned on comms to only Arthur and I. "And boys!"

I expected the worst, being told that we would face a court martial and ben stripped of our ranks and leadership of Blue Squadron, but Grandpa Blu told us the exact opposite of what we expected.

"Thank you for staying and getting us out." Grandpa Blu's voice going to his softer side as I had to smile.

"You're welcome sir." I replied as the star destroyer tried to turn to bring its turbolasers against the corvette, but before it could the ship jumped into hyperspace as the remaining X-Wings also joined in as I hit the button and saw the blackness of space turn into the dark blue tunnel, the destroyer uselessly firing away a few volleys into the emptiness of space as we made our escape and a close one at that too.

And I think I'll leave it off on there!

There's much to say at the moment, other than we are getting closer and closer to the events in The Force Awakens!

And with that…

See everybird later!