Hey everybird! What's up!?

So with this story almost pretty much done, I decided to start on a new story very soon, on Valentine's Day, one which I hope you're all going to enjoy!

And now of course before we get to the next chapter, today's questions!

Today's question is…

If there is anything you would like to change or add in The Rise of Skywalker, what would it be?

Me: I don't think I would change anything, but I would have liked to see some flashbacks between the time of the Battle of Crait and the time of the movie, see how the Resistance managed to evade the First Order and get the few ships and members they have, maybe showing how Leia got the Tantive IV back.

Moving on to your questions…

From Stormknight089, he asks, "We'll be seeing more of Blu and Jewel being grandparents?

Me: Well I'm not sure how to answer that and you already pretty much answered… I guess the best answer I can give you is that since Blue had to look after the pilots under his command in The Scarlet Rebel, it was like looking after his own children, so if his pilots do have kids themselves, than those kids are sort of like Blu's "grandchildren".

Chapter 63: Hopeless Fight

(Tyler's POV)

As the battle shifted to the First Order command ship, our troop carrier landed on the hull as the front end was opened up, charging out was our ground team, half of them riding horse like creature in the front, followed by the other half on their own talons. As they charged across the hull towards the signal tower, multiple First Order troop carriers landed themselves, discharging their own occupants as our ground team had to fight their way through. However I couldn't focus on that, my job, as well as all the other fighters was to protect the ground team from the numerous TIEs swarming around.

"Okay, just got to hold out against hundreds of TIEs while the ground team works to take out the nav signal…" I said in my head. "Easy…"

"Stay focused brother, we're better than them." Arthur told me through comms as he was right alongside me.

Taking a deep breath, I gripped the flight stick as I followed Arthur, looking for targets while Alex and Ashley watched our backs for any TIEs targeting us from behind. Soon enough we spotted a trio of TIEs closing in our ground team, quickly Arthur got one locked in while I had my crosshairs on another, not wasting a second we fired at the same time, sending bursts of red laser fire ripping through the bodies and wings of the TIEs. The last one broke off away from firing at the ground team.

"Two down, about two thousand more to go." I commented with a quick joke.

"Well, lets not spend time talking than." Arthur told me as we circled around the command ship, making sure our ground team was safe while they fought their way to their own objective.

However things seemed to go down at first as Ashley alerted me to something, not TIEs at our back, but the massive fleet… The star destroyers' engines were starting up, meaning they were close to leaving Exegol the huge engines of the destroyers glowing blue as they started to lift up towards space.

"I hope the ground team hurries up…" I said as I took the chance to look down at the command ship, where the battle was still raging on the hull of the ship, blaster fire going everywhere as soldiers on both sides fell and the First Order troops seemed to be dwindling down our own.

"Wait…" Arthur told me. "Brother look at the signal tower!"

I looked just in time to see a moving chain of small explosions, going up until it hit the signal tower, disabling it as the antenna dipped down, rendering it useless for now.

"Hell yeah!" I shouted.

"Nav signal's down, but not for long!" Poe's voice rang through comms as at least we had some good news, but we were far from winning this fight.

With all our fighters regrouping, we flew away from the command ship as our ground team began to retreat to the troop carrier, their job done as I waited for what Poe needed us to do next. Even with the nav signal down, I knew we had to destroy this fleet, leaving it intact was not an option, because sooner or later they would find another way to leave Exegol and carry out their purge of the galaxy.

"Still no Falcon or backup." Snap communicated as I looked around, except for our small group of fighters, there were only swarms of TIEs and the massive armada of star destroyers, no signs of any reinforcements.

"What do we do general?" Another pilot asked, needing to know what we were going to do now.

"We got to hit them ourselves." Poe told us, giving the few of us an impossible task, for us to take out a fleet…

None of us had any missiles, of course with barely any means of getting weapons, we couldn't load our missile compartments with the hard to get and expansive warheads, meaning we only had our laser cannons to work with, which didn't have a hard enough punch to them take out the big underbelly superlasers of the star destroyers.

"What can we do against these things?" One of the female pilots asked as Poe led us against the closet destroyer.

"Just stay alive." Poe told us as we targeted the superlaser, but of course the TIEs wouldn't just let us do so and began surrounding us as green laser fire came from all sides.

Needing to break off, I put dad's fighter into a series of twists and turns as I felt the blood rushing to my head, causing me to feel lightheaded for a few seconds. However that was long enough that I lost sight of Arthur as I looked around, panicking for a few more seconds until I spotted Arthur.

"Arthur, you okay!?" I asked.

"I'm fine, just needed to shake off a couple of TIEs." Arthur told me. "Listen, there's too many of them for us to join up without getting caught, just watch yourself with Ashley and do your best, don't worry about me, I got Alex."

I wanted to fly besides Arthur, but he was right, we couldn't focus on each other and the TIEs seeking out targets not paying attention as well. It was going to take all my skill to live through this… I remembered the last time I was alone… When Arthur and the rest of the New Republic's Blue Squadron had to leave me behind, that time I was a newbie pilot still, even with proper training, I was fresh at combat. This time I was a combat veteran, with plenty of missions and experience with me, it was going to take all of that in order to prevail.

"Okay Ashley, you heard Arthur, make sure my rear is covered okay?" I told the droid, who beeped back at me in a confident tone.

Keeping alert, I began looking for nearby targets, trying to pick out smaller groups of TIEs as I spotted a pair of them up ahead, going to fly right into my field of fire. Waiting for the last possible second so the TIEs would be caught off guard, I pressed the trigger, holding it down as the TIEs flew right into it, the first one going down without so much as taking action. The second one took some damage from the debris of the first, but still stayed in the fight as he dodged out of the way from my fire, turning away from me.

"You're not getting away that easy!" I shouted as I pushed my engines and chased after the TIE, getting him closer and closer into my crosshairs, but then Ashley alerted me as green laser fire was dangerously passing by close to the cockpit, lighting up the cockpit as I pulled the flight down. "We hit Ashely!?" I asked the droid, to which she replied a negative as she then told me I had three TIEs on my back, keeping pace with me as they kept me surrounded with fire.

Quickly thinking, I decided to use the star destroyers to my advantage as I flew the fighter over the hull of one and as I reached the other side I dived down, the TIEs of course having lost their lock on me as they followed me, diving down to continue chasing after me. What they didn't count on was me quickly being able to invert my fighter back and having my laser cannons pointing at them as they appeared underneath the destroyer's hull. Again, not wasting a second, I hit the trigger, rippling apart the wings from two of the TIEs as the three one took evasive action and fled.

"That's right, run…" I said, deciding to let the TIE go and look for anyone that needed my help.

We were certainly losing as I saw one by one, our fighters get shot down, TIEs coming upon the rear and blowing apart the engines of the different fighters and bombers. This was not a time to let emotions run free, but well scanning the battlefield, I saw Arthur up ahead… Being chased by a quad of TIEs.

"Arthur!" I shouted through comms. "Behind you!"

It was too late… The TIEs managed to blow through Arthur's rear shields as fire appeared at the back of the old X-Wing as the fighter began dropping out of the sky towards the ground…

"Arthur!" I cried through comms to my brother as only static greeted my ears. "NOOO!"

And just like that, in front of my very eyes, I saw the one remaining member of my real family die, shot down and falling towards the surface. Tears streamed down my face as I pushed the flight stick as far it would go and focused on the TIEs that ganged up on Arthur, to take revenge. Only as I began to target them, a little voice spoke to me in the back of my head… It sounded a lot like mom's… And then I remembered that mom went through something very similar when dad was shot down during the first battle of Crait, during the old war…

"Yeah, yeah… I'm okay Ashley…" I told her as she was concerned about me. "Arthur's gone… But we're still here…"

Pushing aside seeing Arthur getting shot down, I turned on open comms as everyone was asking Poe what they were going to do now. In just a few minutes, all of us would be gone and not one destroyer was taken out by us as the TIEs continued to overwhelm and pick us off one by one. I had to face it, we lost and now because of our failure, the galaxy was going to suffer and die as well, the war was over and evil would win…

And I think I'll leave it off on there and I think you all know what's coming…

Here's a hint… "There are more of us Poe, there are more of us…"

And with that…

See everybird later!