Hey everybird! What's up!?

So today Midway, directed by Roland Emmerich, came out and I really want to see it! Those of you who know me know I love my WWII movies and I have been looking very froward to this one!

Now onto today's question…

Who is your least favorite clone trooper?

Me: This is of course a very easy answer for me… It's Fox… That bastard killed Fives… One of the best…

And on to your questions…

From Nightfly123, he asks, "Do you think that Hayden Christensen should come back as Anakin Skywalker for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker?

Me: Well if Anakin will come back in any way, than yes he should.

From T8ECR34TOR, he asks, "If Sidious really is back, then how do you think everyone will bring him and the empire down for good?"

Me: Well I somewhat doubt there's going to be a deep well for the good guys to throw him down into… So maybe Rey's going to have to use the Force or something to defeat him.

From Stormknight089, he asks, "Can you summarize the entire first Rio movie but in a parody version?

Me: I'm not sure that I can… Or at least doing so, it would be way too long…

Chapter 44: Taking down a Behemoth

(Tyler's POV)

With the fighter and bomber squadrons all jumping in their cockpits, we left the hangar, the fighters first, followed by the big Starfortress bombers loaded with full payloads of bombs as we took up formation with Poe leading the way. As we held our position, Poe went ahead.

"Alright Arthur, you know the plan, wait until I take out the cannons." Poe's voice spoke through comms.

"You know Poe, you're insane…" Arthur replied back to his friend as I heard Poe's droid beeping at him in agreement.

"Happy beeps here, buddy, come on." Poe replied back to his droid. "We've pulled crazier stunts than this." Poe reassured his droid as the general's voice came through from the bridge of the cruiser.

"Just for the record, Commander Dameron…" The general speaking. "I'm with the droid on this one."

"Thank you for your support, general." Poe replied back as I had to chuckle a little.

As Poe continued flying toward the dreadnought, he hailed the First Order, getting their attention and focusing on him.

"Attention. This is Commander Poe Dameron of the Republic Fleet…" Poe began as what he said next caused me to almost burst out laughing. "I have an urgent communique for General Hugs."

I smiled at Poe's direct insult, although I wasn't able to hear the response from the First Order, bit I surely thought it was really upsetting the bird Poe was speaking to.

"Hi, I'm holding for General Hugs." Poe disregarding whoever spoke to him. "O. I'll hold." Poe added a few seconds later as I felt my body literally beg me to laugh out loud.

I wondered how much longer this would go on until Poe was ready for his next move.

"Hello? Yup. I'm still here." Poe continuing his show. "Hugs? With an "H". Skinny guy. Kinda pasty."

I just had to let out some laughs, but it was okay since I could also see Arthur, who was besides me start to chuckle as well.

"Look, I can't hold forever. If you reach him… Tell him Leia has an urgent message for him…" Poe ignoring the clear voice from the First Order speaking to him before delivering the final verbal blow… "About his mother."

Yup that would just about do it… Luckily Poe was all ready…

"BB-8, punch it!" Poe's voice rang out through comms as suddenly his fighter kicked to life, speeding through space as the afterburners from Poe's fighter directed him straight at the dreadnought. "That's got a kick!" Poe's voice rang out as he was now at the very front of the dreadnought before he quickly slowed down, bringing his wings into attack position as the defense cannons on the dreadnought tried to shoot him down.

They only made themselves targets as Poe's fighter, being too close and fast managed to evade the incoming fire as one by one he destroyed each turret, a small explosion above the dreadnought's hull lighting up every few seconds.

"All right, taking out the cannons now." Poe spoke to Arthur. "Arthur, start your approach."

"Copy that." Arthur's voice replied back firm and cool, despite having a little fun earlier from Poe's taunting. "You heard Poe, lets get going." Arthur told everyone else as we started heading off towards the dreadnought.

As Poe swung around, swinging by the bridge of the dreadnought for another pass, he started taking out the remaining cannons as we got closer and closer.

"One cannon left." Poe's voice called out as I spotted squadrons of TIE fighters appear out from the dreadnought's hangars. "And here comes the parade." Poe commented as the majority of the TIE fighters took up position to defend their ship from us while three of the TIEs chased after Poe.

As I watched, a shot from a TIE hit Poe, luckily it didn't kill him, but there was something wrong as Poe stopped firing and there was still one more cannon to take out. As I waited intensely for Poe to finish off the last cannon, I saw the dreadnought's primary weapons aim down and fire, sending several shots down at our base. Luckily Poe's gamble worked for now as a new voice entered through comms.

"The last transport is in the air." An officer reported in. "The evacuation is complete."

Thank goodness, but I still very much wanted to stay to kill the dreadnought, and luckily Poe didn't break off his attack. Speaking of which whatever was happening with Poe still continued on he did manage to take out one of the TIEs using the dreadnought itself, but still there was two of them, hot on his tail as Poe focused on the last cannon. And well at the last possible moment, Poe's weapons seemed to work again as his laser cannons turned the last cannon into a fireball as Poe used that to shake off his pursers. Swinging around, Poe took out the two TIEs, their wings snapping off as they crashed down on the dreadnought.

"Yes!" Poe shouted. "All clear! Bring the bombs!" Poe confirming our part of the plan.

With the group of bombers and our small number of X-Wings, as well as some of the newer A-Wing models that came from the cruiser, we made our way to the dreadnought.

"Bombers, keep that tight formation." Arthur directed orders at the group. "Fighters, protect the bombers. It's not every day we get a shot at a dreadnought, so let's make this count."

"Copy that Blue Leader." One of the bomber pilots replied. "You get us there, we'll give it to them."

"Copy." I replied. "We're on it." I assured the bomber pilot.

"Fighters incoming." Another bomber pilot notified everyone as the TIE squadrons that left the hangar now roared towards us, to protect our target.

"Gunners, look alive." Arthur saying as the X and A wings sped up, engaging the TIEs as the laser turrets on the bombers helped us out the best they could, careful to not shoot any friendlies as the chaos began.

"Snubfighters at two-ten!" A bomber pilot called out.

"They're coming in!" Another shouted.

"Form up!" A third spoke as calmly as he could as the TIEs outnumbered us and while their main target was the bombers, they still kept hot on out tails.

"They're everywhere!" An X-Wing pilot called out as he was shot down, his fighter flaming.

"Here they come." A bomber pilot addressed.

"Incoming fighters. Form up." I could hear Tally's voice in the mix.

"Vector in at attack speed." An A-Wing pilot said as I saw one of the bombers start to get shredded by TIE fire.

"Pull up!" I could hear through comms the pilot of that bomber.

"Flank right." Another fighter pilot called out.

"Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! We're going down!" One of the crew members of the flaming bomber called out, the rest still continuing on bravely through all the fire as I heard Poe's voice enter through, speaking to Arthur.

"Arthur, they're targeted the fleet and begun the priming sequence" Poe addressing as the dreadnought's primary weapon's system turned and aimed at the cruiser.

"Copy that." Arthur replied as he focused on seeing to the bombers. "We're almost there." Arthur added as the bombers made it to the front end of the dreadnought, working their way to the possible weak spot in the ship. "Bombardiers, begin your drop sequence." Arthur ordered as the bomb bay doors of the bombers opened up, ready to release their payloads.

"I've got a visual on the target." The bomber leader spoke. "We're approaching the sweet spot." The leader added as the bomber crews got to work. "Bombs are armed." All the explosives on the big, slow bombers set to explode.

As the bombers were more vulnerable than ever, it was that much more important to protect them as I saw a TIE break through our defensive screen. Thinking quickly I sped up the engines and quickly targeting the TIE, firing bursts of red laser fire as one of the wings shredded off, but the ball cockpit, with one wing still attached, spun off in a direction I wished it would not go…

The TIE's ball cockpit collided with the bottom of one of the bombers, setting off the bombs inside as the explosions consumed the ship, the flaming debris flying into the path of the bombers on either side of it, completely destroying all three as they flew out of formation. Seeing this in shock, I cursed myself for firing at the TIE… maybe the bomber crew could have taken out the TIE themselves or maybe even if the bombs weren't armed than only one would get taken out. However in this chaos, the time for thinking was out of the picture and right now I couldn't focus on the huge mistake I just made.

And it was certainly necessary to stay focused… Because of the TIE that ultimately took out three bombers, we only had one, one lone bomber left, one last chance to take out the dreadnought as the TIEs refocused their attack.

"Everyone, tighten up the perimeter around the last bomber!" Arthur shouted out through comms. "We need to protect it at all costs!" Arthur ordered as I saw Poe's fighter come up besides the bomber.

"Paige, come in. We're over the target." Poe called to the bomber crew. "Why aren't your bay doors open?" Poe addressing. "You're the only bomber left. It's all down to you!"

With the TIEs swarming around and our numbers thinning, I wasn't sure how much longer we could keep this up and protect the last bomber, they needed to release their payload now!

"Paige!" Poe yelled out. "Drop the payload now!"

As my attention was turned to a TIE attacking from the rear of the bomber, a TIE broke through from the front, firing its laser at the last bomber, luckily the bomber's metal skin managed to soak up some of it and didn't detonate the bombs inside, but the TIE's fire still hit the bomber's cockpit, most likely heavily wounding the pilot or killing him. Still the bomber flew on, resilient as ever to unleash its lethal delivery.

As Ashley warned me that the dreadnought's primary weapons were almost fully charged, I turned to look at the last bomber, which was now directly over the weak spot, any further and it would miss the target and the fleet would be destroyed…

And then our luck came as I saw the bombs start to fall out of the bomber's inside, the explosives free to come down and impact their target.

"Bombs away!" Arthur called out.

As the bombs hit their mark, they ripped apart at the weak spot, fire blowing out as much like Starkiller, the result expanded out, tearing apart at the metal beast as massive flames shot out. As I watched, the last bomber, too damaged to continue flying under its own power, fell into the explosion, consumed by the flames and disappearing. Both sides peeled off away, to not get caught by the blast as what was left of us used that opportunity to start heading back to the cruiser, which was all ready to leave.

As I looked back, the blast reached the read end of the ship, where the bridge was and as the explosions reached there, the dreadnought started to fall, kneeing to its destruction. As the dreadnought was completely finished, we sped up back to the cruiser, watching as the smaller escort ships began the jump to hyperspace as we all made emergency landings down into the hangar, keeping our full speed right until we were right above our landing spots.

As Poe was the last one, the cruiser made its escape, seeing as I looked out my cockpit the blackness of space turning into the blue tunnel of hyperspace.

Even in its retreat, the Resistance still managed to beat up the First Order… Although at a very heavy loss I might add…

Anyway, so comes the first official chapter covering the events in The Last Jedi!

And with that…

See everybird later!