Hey everybird! What's up!?

So I decided on some changes for the rest of the year…

I decided to not get back to The Adventures of Daring Jewel for this year, because I really need to focus on getting as much of this story done as possible before the Rise of Skywalker. However I will still do my Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas one shots and/or short stories, so that is still happening!

And speaking of this story, after this chapter there will be one more mission for the boys, which will cover one or two chapters and than there will be one, maybe two chapters, which lead up to the events in The Force Awakens. So we're almost there everyone! Again, since there will be events from The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, there will be spoilers of course, so if you do have the time, please watch the movies, or at least read up on the events, you can find the info easily by going to Wookieepedia, which is the wikia for Star Wars!

Also, if you don't remember, Star Wars Resistance came back today and I saw the first episode of the new season and it was great! I can't wait to see what's in store next!

Anyway, moving on to today's question…

What would you do if you suddenly found yourself in a dark alley and you hear heavy breathing as on the other end a red colored blade ignites and you see a figure dressed completely in black?

And on to your questions…

From Nightfly123, he asks, "Also, at what time in Star Wars history, do you intend for your Star Wars: Knights of the old republic story to take place and what are the current ideas for what could happen in that story as well as who are the main characters for the story?

Me: Again, as I have explained I have no other Star Wars stories currently planned for the future, especially since I have other ideas that are not Star Wars related.

From T8ECR34TOR, he asks, "If you wanted to remake your Rio/Star Wars universe into your own version of the Old Republic story, which Rio characters would you want to use the most (not including your OCs)?"

Me: Well maybe I would use Nigel as Darth Malgus, Jewel as Satele Shan, and Eduardo as Kao Cen Darach, who is Satele's master, but as I explained before, not planning anything related to that time period currently.

From Stormknight089, he asks, "Do you remember when Yoda and Sidious were fighting? What do you think will happen if the senate was there seeing Yoda and Sidious fighting each other?"

Me: Well if you're referring to that scene in Revenge of the Sith, I'm not sure what they would think at first, but I guess they would know the truth since Sidious clearly has his red lightsaber out.

Chapter 31: Catching Up

(Tyler's POV)

With my fighter docked securely to the docking ring, I checked the pressure before I would open my cockpit, to make sure I had air to breathe before leaving my fighter. Once I confirmed that fact, I got out to go join my brother, to see Uncle Felipe after so long.

"Be right back Ashley, make sure you keep scanning just in case any First Order ships show up." I told the droid as I got back a positive beep from her.

Going through the hatches into the larger corvette, I walked through the passageways as I saw Arthur coming out from the other side of the ship. As we joined up, we headed off towards the lower areas of the corvette as we opened a door which led to the small hangar housing Uncle Felipe's fighter. Uncle Felipe's fighter, while not badly damaged was still in bad shape as Arthur and I had to wave our wings in front of our faces as we coughed a little, met by black smoke blowing past.

"Well could be worse." I commented as Uncle Felipe heard us.

"Yeah, I would have been a goner if you two didn't show up." Uncle Felipe's voice replied as our vision cleared up enough to see the older Scarlet stand in front of us.

"Commander Felipe." Arthur spoke as he saluted.

"Now, now, knock it off boys." Uncle Felipe chuckled as he opened his wings for a hug, of which Arthur and I were happy to oblige. "It's good to see you two again."

"Likewise Uncle." I agreed as we hugged for a solid minute before breaking it.

"So, I hear you two have been put in charge of the Resistance's Blue Squadron, a great decision if I may say so, I can't think of anyone else to lead a squadron, well other than…" Uncle Felipe started as a new voice joined in.

"Me." Grandpa Blu's voice interrupted as now the three of us turned at attention to the newcomer here as Grandpa Blu walked past Arthur and I to Uncle Felipe. "Commander Felipe."

"Sir." Uncle Felipe a bit nervous to face his own old commander. "I hear you received a promotion to Colonel, about time if you ask me."

Grandpa Blu didn't say anything in return, only taking a step further, much closer to Felipe, the two only a few inches apart, I was rather a little confused about Grandpa Blu, but that changed as Grandpa Blu quickly smiled before hugging Uncle Felipe.

"It's good to see you my friend well and in one piece." Grandpa Blu said happily.

"Well I wouldn't be if it wasn't for these two." Uncle Felipe talking about Arthur and I as we blushed a little. "It's good to see you too sir."

As the two separated from their embrace, Uncle Felipe remembered the real reason why he was here as he went to his cockpit and returned with a disk, the intel he was delivering.

"The intel I was ordered to give to the Resistance, must be valuable if an Ace came after us." Uncle Felipe handing it out as Grandpa Blu took it.

"You're lucky a whole Star Destroyer wasn't sent instead." Grandpa Blu replied as he took the disk and turned to us as he handed the disk to Arthur. "Commander, captain, transmit the intel to General Organa and report to her, I will stay here with Commander Felipe and make sure his fighter gets patched up." Grandpa Blu told us as we knew he wanted to catch up with Uncle Felipe too.

"Yes sir." Arthur saluted as he took the disk. "Come on Tyler, lets go report on what happened to the general."

As we left the hangar room in the corvette, leaving Grandpa Blu and Uncle Felipe to work on fixing up Felipe's fighter, we headed off to one of the rooms which had a holographic table in the middle. Arthur punched in the frequency for the base back on D'Qar as we waited for an answer as General Organa herself appeared, but was expecting someone else…

"Colonel Blu, is everything alright…" General Organa stopped as she saw Arthur and I instead. "Oh, Commander Arthur, Captain Tyler, where is Colonel Blu?"

"He's with the pilot who delivered the intel General." Arthur answered. "He sent us to report to you."

"Very well, do you have the intel?" General Organa asking politely.

"Yes General, transmitting it now." Arthur replied as he inserted the disk into one of the ports on the table's side, pressing the button which would send the data back to the base.

"Getting it commander." General Organa confirming as she nodded to someone off screen before returning her attention to us. "So was there any mishaps?"

"Well General…" Arthur began, but not knowing how to explain everything exactly as I stepped up.

"We encountered a First Order Ace general." I began. "When we arrived, a strange looking red and black TIE fighter was chasing the group we were meeting, luckily two of them managed to escape, but one stayed back hold off the Ace."

"Yes and that's when the captain and I flew in and with the help of the pilot who stayed behind, we managed to disable the TIE, but he escaped before we could get him." Arthur explaining what happened next. "The pilot who stayed behind got his fighter damaged, so we brought him inside the Valiant to patch up his fighter."

"Well, not so sure how the New Republic Senate would feel about a pilot from the navy interacting with Resistance members…" General Organa putting a wing to her chin. "But I understand your decision to bring him in, just make sure once that pilot's fighter is repaired you leave as soon as possible back to base, can't risk the First Order showing up if that Ace called for backup of his own. Thank you for the report, commander, captain."

"Thank you general." Arthur replied as we both saluted, the general returning it before her holographic image disappeared and Arthur and I could relax.

"What was that about brother, stopping all of a sudden?" I teased Arthur as I playfully slapped his back.

"Sorry, got a little nervous reporting to the general myself without having Grandpa Blu around." Arthur blushed. "Anyway, we should head on back to see how things are going with Uncle's Felipe's fighter and see if we can help at all."

"Copy that." I replied as we headed back to the small hangar room, where Grandpa Blu and Uncle Felipe were hard at work fixing up the fighter, while catching up on things, talking more normally, like they were on leave or something, they didn't even notice us, that is until Arthur cleared his throat.

"Oh commander, captain!" Grandpa Blu taking notice now. "Finished reporting to the general?"

"Yes sir and she advised us to head back to base in case the First Order decides to come." Arthur answered.

"Well than we could surely use some more help boys." Uncle Felipe smiled as he invited us too. "Grab some tools and get working."

"Yes sir." Arthur and I both replied at the same time as we joined in on the effort.

And in no time Uncle Felipe's fighter was back to a normal condition, he could at least make it through a hyperspace jump back to the New Republic fleet where he could get some proper repairs done. Of course he couldn't just leave, not without saying bye to us first.

"Alright than, seems everything is good to go for now." Uncle Felipe wiping his forehead full of sweat. "Thanks for taking me in for some temporary repairs at the risk of the First Order showing up."

"Think nothing of it Felipe, you would do the same for any of us." Grandpa Blu smiled.

"And it's great to see you too Uncle Felipe." I added.

"Yeah, we hardly ever see you anymore." Arthur smiling as we then enjoyed a hug with him.

"You know I sometimes wish you boys were still with me in Blue Squadron, the pilots under my command could learn a thing or two from you boys." Uncle Felipe telling us.

"Well, maybe when this is all over, we'll come back and rejoin Blue Squadron under your command." Arthur replied.

"Or maybe even take charge." I joked.

"We'll see boys." Uncle Felipe chuckled. "Well, I better get going, my pilots are probably very concerned about me." Uncle Felipe putting on his helmet as he told his droid to start up the engines, which began to hum to life.

As we said our final goodbyes, Grandpa Blu, Arthur, and I left the hangar room, making sure to lock the door, making sure no air pressure would escape as Felipe climbed into his cockpit before closing it and the hangar itself opened to let Felipe's fighter back out into space. As Arthur and I headed off to a window, we saw Felipe's fighter get clear of us before he made the jump to hyperspace, his fighter disappearing from view as he made his way back.

With Felipe gone, it was time for us to head back to D'Qar ourselves as Arthur and I headed back to our own fighters, climbing into our cockpits as we undocked from the corvette, setting up the hyperspace coordinates. As we got confirmation from Grandpa Blu to make the jump, we hit the buttons and were on our way back.

Back on base, as soon as we landed, Arthur and I decided to take a nap for awhile, resting up from our mission to be refreshed. As we woke up, it was actually getting late in the day, with nothing else to do, we decided to get a hot meal before we headed back to our quarters, once there we agreed to call mom and dad as we got Ashley to get them.

As our parents' image projected from Ashley's droid eye, they were not smiling as much as expected.

"Mom, dad." I started.

"Boys." Our mom started as Arthur and I looked at each other, confused by the tone in our mother's voice.

"So, you two went on any exciting missions lately?" Dad asked in the same tone as mom's.

"Well funny that you should mention that, you see we just recently came back from a simple intel recovery mission, Uncle Felipe was actually the one who delivered it to us." Arthur started.

"And by simple, does that include fighting an Ace?" Mom revealing as Arthur and I were a little shocked.

"How do you know?" I asked slowly.

"Your Uncle Felipe actually stopped by for a quick visit, told us that you two came just in time to save his neck." Mom explained, making her smile bigger.

"But we didn't manage to get him…" Arthur expressing his disappointment, feeling like mom and dad wouldn't be proud of us because we didn't claim the kill.

"That Ace got away before we could shoot him down." I finished as mom and dad chuckled a little.

"Son, you two must have given him a good fight by the way Felipe explained it, the fact remains that the Ace decided to run instead of staying means he knew he met his match." Mom looking at it a different way.

"Of course not to brag if it was your mother and I fighting that Ace, we would have managed to shoot him down much quicker." Dad joked while mom hit dad's shoulder with her elbow.

And so we returned to the family friendly discussion, catching up on things and how we were doing, forgetting about the looming war over the horizon. And it was a good thing too, because little did Arthur and I know at this time how little time we had left with mom and dad…

Yeah, I think you all know what I'm talking about…

Anyway, heads up for the next and last mission before the events in the Force Awakens, it will be based on the Star Wars Resistance episode, "The Core Problem"

See everybird later!