Hey everybird! What's up!?

So the final battle has began, with the fate of the galaxy hanging in the balance, I hope you're all ready for the epic conclusion to this!

But of course before we get to that, lets get to today's questions…

Today's question is, what is your favorite Endgame type of moment?

Me: Well my two favorites are of course the Rise of Skywalker (Looking froward to that moment in this story!) and The Ending of the End in MLP: FiM.

Moving on to your questions…

From Nightfly123, he asks, "Did you know that Kirk Douglas has died at age 103 on Wednesday, two days ago?"

Me: Yes I did, but hey at least he did live a very long life.

Chapter 62: Welcome to Exegol

(Arthur's POV)

Going through hyperspace I prepared myself for the worst as Alex gave me a warning that we were approaching the crimson energy storms that surrounded Exegol, our first obstacle and challenge. We needed to navigate carefully pass this before arriving at our final destination, coming out of hyperspace, with everyone else also jumping out. After a quick headcount, we began going almost single file in order to make it through and no one would get lost and off course.

"This is one tight fit…" I commented. "You doing okay back there Tyler?" I asked through comms to Tyler, who was flying right behind me.

"Please, this is easy." Tyler replied. "It's a good thing I always like to fly through the asteroid ring back at D'Qar." Tyler bringing up those memories, which made me chuckle.

Up ahead I could see the Tantive IV struggling a little bit, since it was a big corvette and not a small, fast moving X-wing, the ship occasionally bumping into the debris of the energy storms, most likely wrecks of past ships trying to get through. I was worried because Grandpa Blu was on that ship. Before we left, I saw Grandpa Blu begin to broad the ship, to go with us, on the biggest target in our group, which was most likely going to draw more fire at it. I urged Grandpa Blu to stay back at base, but he was determined to go as well, to see this to the end too.

"I hope the corvette's going to be okay…" I spoke to Tyler, showing my clear nervousness in my voice.

"It will brother, we're all going to make it out of here alive." Tyler told me as I heard Ashley's beeping in the background. "Looks like we're almost clear of the storms." Tyler informed me as he was right, we were soon enough clear, with the blackness of space coming into view.

As those in the front entered hyperspace for the quick jump into Exegol's atmosphere, I punched the button as it was my turn, the fighter, just for a quick minute, going through the blue tunnel before exiting once more…

As we arrived one by one, I was greeted by the most terrifying sight I have ever seen, the world of Exegol was consumed by darkness and powerful lightning storms, but that was very tame compared to the powerful armada we were opposing. Rows upon rows of star destroyers as far as my eyes could see were all ready, just waiting for the signal to deploy and spread across the galaxy. My mind went to every world, with trillions of inhabitants, which would perish from the planet killing weapons, located on the underbelly of the star destroyers. I thought about if one of them went to Belladoon… Mom's home planet…

I was snapped free from my terrible thoughts as barrages of green turbolaser fire began exploding all over, reminding me we were in a battle as Alex gave out a wail, obviously caught off guard, but he then refocused. I couldn't blame Alex, even with him being used to combat now, this was a intense field of fire coming towards us.

"Welcome to Exegol!" Poe's voice rang through comms as I focused all of my mind in the here and now.

"Hang in there Alex, we'll get through this!" I told the droid loudly as the sounds of explosions would have drowned my voice if I talked normally. "Lets find out how tough this ship is." I said to myself more softly as I took evasive action.

Moving my flight stick all around, I made myself a difficult target as I saw several other fighters, especially the bigger B-Wings in the group hit and destroyed, a turbolaser shot of course was going to make easy scrap metal out of a small fighter if it impacted. As I moved wildly to avoid getting hit, I lost track of Tyler as with everyone moving around, there were several moments of near collisions as our formation broke up.

"Watch your right Blue Leader!" A pilot of one of the Y-Wings spoke to me as I quickly rolled my fighter so I was sideways, the Y-Wing passing by a few mere feet from my fighter's body, breathing a quick sigh of relief.

"Get to their attitude." Poe telling us. "They can't fire on us without hitting each other! Don't give up, help is coming!" Poe urged us as I began diving down, joining everyone else as we flew right between the mass of star destroyers, we were basically tiny annoying bugs to them, but their fire soon enough had to stop, in fear of hitting and damaging each other.

As I began to clam down a little as the fire tapered off for now, I took the chance to look around as I spotted Tyler, who saw me, coming closer to me.

"So, still easy?" I asked Tyler, joking right in the middle of all this.

"Yeah, I take back what I said earlier…" Tyler replied awkwardly. "Glad to see you're still in one piece."

"Same here brother, lets keep it that way." I said back as all of us flew as fast as we could towards the surface of the Sith world.

The navigation tower came into view, our target which would stop the star destroyers from leaving. Of course the fleet which relied on the tower wasn't just going to let do so as the destroyers couldn't fire on us themselves, but…

"Incoming TIEs." Snap reported as up ahead, TIEs with triangular wings, rather than the hexagonal wings of normal TIEs, started deploying from the star destroyers' hangars, speeding towards us as they fired off their green lasers.

Gripping a wing tightly on the trigger, I watched as our troop carrier veered off, taking a few hits, but not enough to damage it as Poe took the lead, downing one of the TIEs as it burst into flames. Selecting my own target, I hit the trigger, the old laser cannons of my mom's X-Wing going to work as I took out a TIE, watching as the red lasers shredded the body of the fighter as the wings spun out before falling back to the ground. However that was only the first pass as the fight started to become a mess, we were only a few and limited, while of course with hundreds of star destroyers here that had hangars full of TIEs, they were endless and could send waves upon waves of them at us.

"Arthur, keep some of the fighters with you and hold the TIEs at bay long enough for a few of us to cover the carrier to the tower." Poe told me.

"I'll try my best Poe!" I replied back as I had a couple of TIEs on my tail, trying to shake them off as I reinforced my rear shielding.

As I tried to shake off the TIEs and come around, one of them exploded as the other broke off the pursuit as Tyler came up next to me.

"You okay brother?" Tyler asked.

"Yeah, thanks for watching my back." I said with relief.

"You're welcome, now come on, you heard Poe, lets kill as many of them as we can." Tyler told me as we looked for targets while Alex and Ashley kept alert for any TIEs behind us.

Only a minute later however, an update came through which sent our plans to disarray.

"The navigation tower has been deactivated." One of the fighters covering the carrier reported as I took a quick look to see that the tower was indeed being shut down, rendering it useless to hit now.

"Their ships need that signal, it's gonna be coming from somewhere." Snap guessed.

"They figured out what we're doing." Poe realized. "Call off the ground invasion."

"Dammit, just when we were so close!" Tyler cursed as our only chance in stopping the fleet's deployment was most likely gone, but Finn had a feeling…

"The nav signal's coming from that command ship, that's our drop zone." Finn told us, reasoning that it would be moved there.

"You want to launch a ground invasion on a star destroyer?" One of the fighter pilots questioned, of course this being a crazy idea, but we had no other options open to us.

"I don't want to, but we can't take out that ships's nav system from here, give us cover, got to keep the fleet here til help arrives." Finn instructed us as I turned my fighter around to rejoin the main group, Tyler with me.

"You heard the general!" Poe's voice said clearly through comms. "All wings, cover that lander!"

"This is completely crazy you know that, right brother?" Tyler asked me.

"Crazy is what mom and dad would do in this kind of situation brother, now you heard the generals, we have to keep our ground team safe while they take out the signal." I told Tyler as the battle moved to the single First Order type star destroyer serving as the command ship over the armada.

Of course the TIEs followed us as they also brought along their own troop carriers, to counter our ground team and stop them. I knew it was going to be a tough fight, but every second mattered and hopefully this time, unlike at Crait, the galaxy would find its courage to come and fight. I had to have hope in this dark moment of time and hold on for the full weight of the light to come.

And I'll leave it off on there! A bit shorter, but again I want to make sure I spend a few chapters on the final battle.

So I'll see you in the continuance of the battle next chapter and…

See everybird later!