Hey everybird! What's up!?

So we're still moving along with this story, you know when I first started this story, I thought the whole story was going to be around 80k words… Never did I think I would make it past 120k! And at this point, I think it's going to be twice as long as The Scarlet Rebel! And we're definitely going to make it to over 200 reviews hopefully by the end of the story!

Now lets get to today's question, which will involve a possible future story…

So, for those of you who remember, I tried to write Blu's story before The Scarlet Rebel but decided to scrap it, however I still want to write at least part of his early story, so I have been thinking… Would you like to see a short story of Blu's part in Rogue One? (After I finish this story, that is!)

Moving on to your questions…

From Nightfly123, he asks, "Is the gift that Eduardo is going to give to Arthur and Tyler, an toy or a memoir or something?"

Me: Sorry buddy, you're just going to have to wait for the reveal! But I gave a pretty big hint already…

Chapter 56: Occupation

(Tyler's POV)

With Arthur and I, along with Alex and Ashley parting ways with Commander Tandin and his rebels, who went their own way to meet up with the rebels hidden in the city, we made our way to the spaceport. It was quite a walk and well very dangerous with stormtrooper squads patrolling the streets, who could identify any one of us as Resistance members. However just as long as we kept to ourselves and not get into trouble, we would be fine, but that was proving far more difficult than I first thought…

I could clearly see the effects of First Order occupation, mothers having to pull in their children back into their homes when troopers marched past, other troopers stopping random birds on the streets asking for identification and well, if they didn't, they were forcibly grabbed and taken away to who knows where. It really reminded me a lot of when mom would talk about her terrible life growing up as a child under Imperial occupation, having to suffer through her own parents being killed and her brother and sister taken away and being put under hard labor against their will.

Arthur and I stayed mostly to the alleyways, to avoid as much confrontation with troopers as possible and as we were walking down one alleyway, we saw a couple of troopers up ahead, interrogating a man, holding their blasters to him as the man was very much frightened of course, thinking like he was going to die.

"Wrong turn, come on Tyler, lets go." Arthur whispered to me, but I didn't move, instead my wing going back down to my blaster pistol, which was hidden on my belt. "Tyler, no…" Arthur stopping me.

"We have to do something brother, we can't just leave someone like this." I replied, keeping my wing on my blaster.

"You do that and you bring whole squads of troopers on us." Arthur said sternly to me before calming down. "Look, I know how you feel, but the only thing we can do is to win the war and we can only do that by staying alive." Arthur saying as I knew he was right.

Turning my back as I followed Arthur, I heard the sound of a blaster being fired and the noise of a bird dropping dead, his body making a thump sound as I had to force myself to not turn around and see what I could have avoided. Luckily the troopers didn't see Arthur and I, as well as Alex and Ashley, as we took another way to the space port, eventually reaching it, of course it was under strict First Order control. Troopers were patrolling around and inside the port as well as managing the security checkpoints, with things like scanners which would detect any forbidden items like weapons.

"Okay, we just need to make it through security, onto our transport and we'll be fine." Arthur saying as he carefully took out his blaster pistol, giving it to Alex to hide inside his metal body. "Keep hold of this for now Alex." Arthur said as Alex beeped back and took the small blaster, hiding it in one of his empty compartments, while I did the same with Ashley.

With both Arthur and I taking a deep breath, we calmly walked to the front entrance of the space port, joining the lines of other travelers as pairs of troopers walked by, keeping an eye on any suspicious activity along the lines. I knew the best way to avoid any problems was to keep my eyes straight and not look at the troopers, but it was very hard as I heard their heavy talonsteps walk by me, no doubt they were looking at me for any signs that I would cause trouble and give them an excuse to rough me up. However I listened to what Arthur said before and did nothing to attract their attention as we reached the scanners, I took some more deep breaths as Arthur and I passed easily with no alarms going off, Alex and Ashley following. It was a couple of tense seconds, but luckily the blasters were hidden well enough that the scanners didn't pick them up.

"So far so good." I told Arthur as we approached the next security point, where we would show our IDs, which were faked of course.

As we were about to present our IDs, we heard the alarms going off on the scanners as several troopers converged on the spot, with most of them holding their blasters ready while a couple of them forced the bird down on the ground and began searching him.

"No!" The bird shouted. "This must be a mistake! I don't have any dangerous items!" The bird protested as the troopers searching the bird pulled out hidden jewelry.

"You're coming with us." One of the troopers holding the bird down stated as the troopers holding the bird down got him up and held onto his wings so he couldn't run away, taking the unfortunate bird under armed guard out of sight. "No!" Was the last thing I heard the bird screaming as everything settled down again from the incident.

"That happens a lot more than you think, thieves trying to escape off world…" The officer at the ID booth said as he repaid his attention to Arthur and I. "IDs please."

Both Arthur and I gave our fake IDs to the officer, who carefully read through them, making sure to not skip out on any detail, we hoped Tandin and his rebels did a good job and well they did as after a couple minutes the officer finally returned our IDs.

"Well, everything looks to be in good order." The officer giving back Arthur's and then my fake ID, but looking at Alex and Ashley. "But may I ask why you're bringing your droids with you?"

"Well you see we're actually going to have some of their parts replaced and we couldn't find them here, so we're going to Belladoon to hopefully find the parts." Arthur giving a cover story.

"Belladoon… Well that's not a major world that has a lot of technology, but it did used to host old weapons factories from the Imperial era…" The officer putting a wing to his chin, making me slightly worried that he was catching on to us. "Well, you're certainly going to have your search cut out for you, move on."

"Thank you." Arthur replied as I breathed a sigh of relief as we were finally free from the security checkpoints, now just needing to board the civilian transports for Belladoon.

Getting on the transport, we found several empty seats, sitting down as we could relax and finally feel safe as soon as the transport's hold of traveling birds were filled and the doors closed. As the doors closed, I heard the hum of the engines as we lifted off, looking out to see the transport coming out of the dock and into the skies above, climbing through and through until reaching space. As we reached the blackness of space and as the transport was clear of the planet's gravitational pull, the transport entered hyperspace, the black of space turning to the blue tunnel.

Once we were safely in hyperspace, Arthur whispered to Alex, but it was loud enough that I could hear, since I was siting next to him.

"Okay Alex, send a secure transmission back to base, let them know we managed to board the civilian transport on Onderon and we're heading to Belladoon." Arthur told the droid as Alex silently beeped back and began sending the message.

(Blu's POV)

It has been awhile since I have last heard from Arthur and Tyler and I was getting worried…

Sure they went out on missions before since the escape from Crait, but that was with others, this was the first time they were on their own, well except for Alex and Ashley. I knew this mission was a very personal one for them and they needed to go, but with the majority of the galaxy under the reign of the First Order, actively hunting down any Resistance members, going out there was a matter of life and death for those who resisted the evilness.

"Colonel Blu, you seem concerned." General Organa's voice spoke to me as she came, sitting down where I was by the comms station just outside the Tantive IV.

"Yes general, I am, this is the first time the commander and captain are alone on a mission and we haven't heard of their progress yet, I'm afraid they may have been caught by the First Order." I expressed my fear.

"They knew the risk colonel and you thinking about them failing isn't going to do you any good." The general advised me. "They're probably keeping silent so they not only attract attention to them, but to us as well."

"You're right general and I have faith in the boys, just like their parents did." I sighed as one of the operators listening in to comms called me over.

"Colonel Blu, we're getting a secure transmission from Commander Arthur's droid." The operator called me over as I got up right away and came besides the bird.

"Lets hear it than." I requested as I felt my hope return.

"They managed to board a civilian transport on Onderon and on their way to Belladoon." The operator reported as the coded transmission was coming out.

"Good, send back a message, tell the commander that he can proceed and be careful and stay silent on comms until they're back in this system." I ordered.

"Yes sir." The operator replied as he got to work sending back the message to Alex for Arthur and Tyler to get.

"Good job boys, now I hope what you're getting will be worth all this effort…" I said in my head as the message was sent back to them.

And I'll end this chapter here!

I hope you're ready for next chapter because Arthur and Tyler will finally see what they came for!

And with that…

See everybird later!