Hey everybird! What's up!?

Before we get to today's questions, just a quick update.

So I thought of the plans for this month, the last of this year, before we of course move on to the new year!

So first of all, I'm going to finish this story up to the very end of The Last Jedi of course, which is the next chapter of this story before a hiatus for this. After that, I'm going to start posting my Christmas story, which as I said before I worked on a lot and already have three out of the five chapters for it. And since my Christmas story will be most likely finished during the time of posting the first three chapters, I'm going to come back to a favorite series of mine, but also a lot of yours as well, The Adventures of Daring Jewel!

So I hope you're all looking froward to the rest of the year and what will come with the new year!

And now moving on to today's question…

Who do you think may die in The Rise of Skywalker?

Me: Obviously the Emperor (Again!) and most likely Kylo Ren, but I would say that there is a chance Finn may go, maybe to save Rey or something like that, he did come very close to dying in The Force Awakens, having had his whole back cut by Kylo's lightsaber!

And on to your questions…

From Nightfly123, he asks, "What do you think of Rian Johnson directing an episode of The Mandalorian?"

Me: Just no, it would not be a wise decision in my opinion, I don't hate Johnson for The Last Jedi, but I don't think The Mandalorian would go on if he directed an episode.

From Stormknight089, he asks, "o umm, I need your help, you know Rafael right, yeah, he asked me to babysit his 441 grandkids because he's taking Eva out for a honey moon and his other kids ( A.K.A the parents of those kids ) are doing something really important, could you please help me with babysitting them?"

Me: No… (Slowly walks away)

Chapter 52: Buying Time

(Tyler's POV)

Watching Skywalker just calmly walk out, no hint of fear on his face, in front of all those war machines, it was just speechless, part of me thought he was just a foolish old man going straight to his doom. Continuing to watch the outside, seeing Skywalker's little form compared to the menacing sight of the First Order walkers, he just walked so causally, right in front of the First Order, not bothering to hide himself as he was an easy and perfect target. As Skywalker presented himself, the walkers, slowly stomping their metal legs on the ground toward us, came to a stop before aiming their weapons at Skywalker.

And then it happened… One of the walkers fired off the opening shot, covering Skywalker's form in an explosion of salt and red soil. Before the knocked up ground could come back down, and see if Skywalker survived, all the walkers proceeded to begin a tremendous barrage of fire. Saturating one very specific spot with laser fire, one could very much say that nothing could survive as I felt Arthur grab my wing.

"Come on brother, lets get to the command center." Arthur told me as I turned to look at him, seeing Poe and everyone else heading to where the makeshift command center was.

As Arthur and I arrived, Grandpa Blu looked at us, but didn't say anything as he turned his attention back to Skywalker, as was our attention. The command center, which had a viewing port out to the trenches in front, was lit up with the red glow of the walkers' fire. The fire only seemed to grow more intense with each passing second to the point where I could barely see anything out of the viewing port. However after a couple of minutes the fire died down and stopped, all the soil and dust that was kicked up could finally settle back down as our vision of what was out there cleared up.

And…

Skywalker was still there… In one piece and not a scratch on him…

"How…" I could only hang my beak wide open, knowing nothing can survive such a barrage.

Only my thoughts were interrupted with a voice shouting out.

"Med pack!" The voice of Finn called back. "I need a med pack!"

Watching Poe run out, Arthur and I followed as we saw Finn dragging in a female bird on a makeshift stretcher, some birds getting out some medical supplies, tending to the wounded bird Finn brought in.

"She's hurt pretty bad." Finn said as our attention turned back to Skywalker.

Poe took out a pair of binoculars as he took a look at the situation, seeing exactly what was happening as we saw a huge shuttle landing down before its ramp opened and a bird wearing heavy black clothing came out, no one with him.

"It's Kylo Ren." Poe said as he took the pair of binoculars away from his eyes. "Luke's facing him alone."

"Well, we should help him." Finn said as he began walking froward from behind Poe. "Let's go."

Sure, go out there and then certainly have the walkers' attention turned to us, we would be blown instantly to bits in a second, luckily Poe stopped Finn before he could go any further.

"No, wait. Wait." Poe told Finn as he brought the binoculars back to his eyes.

As I continued watching Skywalker holding back the First Order, I began to think about why Skywalker was doing this, there was no way he could escape from this, but than yet again if he was distracting them…

"He's doing this for a reason." Poe spoke up as he pretty much had the same thoughts as me. "He's stalling so we can escape."

"Escape?" Finn questioned. "He's one man against an army. We have to help him, we have to fight." Finn eager to get going, which I would have liked, but we had nothing to fight with.

"No, no…" Poe replied. "We are the spark that'll light the fire that'll burn the First Order down. Skywalker's doing this so we can survive."

As Poe finished speaking to Finn, he turned back, coming towards the rest of us, taking the lead.

"There's gotta be a way out of this mine." Poe thought as I knew there must have been a way Skywalker came here without us knowing. "Hell, how did he get in here?"

"Sir, it is possible that a natural unmapped opening exists." The general's gold droid, C-3PO spoke up. "But this facility is such a maze of endless tunnels that the odds of finding an exit are 15,428…" The droid rambled on as I saw Poe's face change, having noticed something odd as he began to quiet the droid next to him.

"Shut up!" Poe had to shout to the droid to be quiet before the droid just finished his sentence with a hung head.

"To one." The droid finished as we all stayed quiet, not making a sound.

"Listen." Poe told us as I heard nothing.

"My audio sensors no longer detect the…" The droid started before Poe finished.

"Exactly." Poe said as he began walking past everyone, further into the base, not seeing anyone at first.

And then it hit me… As that shuttle Finn and Rose stolen, crashed down into the base, some of the planet's native creatures came rushing in, taking shelter and now they weren't here.

"Where'd the crystal critters go?" Finn asked to Poe as Poe looked around before I saw his gaze focus somewhere and looking to where Poe looked, I could see one of the crystal foxes by an opening, standing there like he was just waiting for us to notice as the fox then turned and ran off.

"Follow me." Poe told everyone as we all turned to look at who was really in charge…

"What are you looking at me for?" The general said, turning her own head to see behind her. "Follow him." The general telling everyone to follow Poe.

With Poe taking the lead, we all began to head on back to where that fox ran off to, hopefully to get out and escape before the First Order could catch up.

"Do you think this is a good decision brother?" I asked Arthur as we walked side by side, with Alex and Ashley right behind us.

"I don't know, but we can't stay here, we have to take a chance while we can." Arthur told me as we entered through the unexplored back of the base, entering through a natural tunnel, Alex and Ashley turning on their lights.

"This way." Poe guided us as we kept up with the crystal fox that stayed behind.

As we made our way through, I had to help Arthur out a bit, almost falling down a couple of times as he still has yet to fully recover from his injuries.

"Come on brother, you can make it." I told him as we went as fast as we could, keeping up with the group as Grandpa Blu kept watch for us as he was in front of us.

Eventually Poe, who was in front, running a little, stopped and as we could see what Poe was seeing, it was not good… A wall of loose rock, like a rock slide. has blocked our way out, maybe from the effect of the raging battle from earlier. The crystal fox who led us here fit his way through the cracks to escape, but we couldn't…

"No…" Poe said. "No, no, no." Poe kept repeating as he ran up to the rock wall and looked through the cracks. "No!"

So this was it… We were all trapped… Behind us were sure to be First Order troops marching towards us and in front of us an impassable barrier we couldn't. move. It was over, this is the end of us…

"Well brother, looks like this is truly the end, we fought as hard as we could, gave our lives to try and put an end to the First Order, but turns out it was all for nothing…" Arthur giving up and I couldn't really blame or yell at him, for I was feeling pretty defeated myself.

"Well, at least we'll go out on this world and plus, there's no one else I would have by my side at the end." I told Arthur as I put a wing over him and he looked at him, with a smile as he then hugged me. "Love you brother."

"Love you too." I shed a tear, holding onto Arthur tight, but than I heard both Alex and Ashley beeping at me in excitement for whatever reason.

As I was going to be mad at the droids for ruining the moment, I noticed light beginning to shine through as I kept quiet while releasing the hug I was sharing with Arthur. With both of us, as well as everyone else turning their heads towards the light, I saw one of the most amazing things in my life…

The rock wall that was blocking our way out was not only clear, but the rocks were floating about like in an asteroid field. Making our way out, we saw who was doing it, that scavenger girl who was part of the team on the ground during the assault on Starkiller Base, was using the Force to move the rocks. She is a Jedi…

Earlier, I would have been so jealous of someone who was able to use the Force, but right now, I was just so thankful we were free to escape. At first we were all too stunned to really move from the new opening the scavenger, I mean Jedi, created for us, but we shook that off as first Finn came running froward towards the girl while she moved the rocks aside and let them go, the rocks falling back down to the ground. Finn ran right into the embrace of the Jedi, hugging her.

However there was no time for that, as soon as the two broke the hug, we got to work climbing up the rocky walls, to the small freighter the Jedi came from. Carefully holding out for the ledges with our wings, we all made it up as Alex and Ashley were already waiting for us, having had the advantage of rocket boosters in their legs to propel them up. The two laughed at Arthur and I as we were out of breath.

"Very funny you two, you try climbing up with nothing to help you." I said sternly as Alex and Ashley just continued laughing, enjoying themselves despite the serious situation.

With everyone up, we all boarded the freighter, getting in and finally able to relax as we were free. Going inside, I took an empty seat by a Dejarik game board, Arthur joining in as we both smiled, knowing we were going to make it out of here alive after all.

And with that, the few survivors have escaped and as Luke said, the war has just began and the rebellion is reborn…

And the two brothers will play a part in the new rebellion to bring down the First Order!

However, we still have one more chapter to go to cover The Last Jedi, which of course will be the brothers with a renewed confidence and goal for the future as they escape together with the last survivors aboard the Falcon.

And with that…

See everybird later!