Aces of Darkness
A/N: I do not own my little pony and Ace Combat only my OCs and any reviews would be nice
Looking up at his captors Lieutenant commander Richard Augenstine moved his wrists that were bound and said
"So you motherfuckers care to give me a smoke and if you do I will tell you what I know you motherfuckers are wondering" and the kids who had AR15s pointed at him with the uniforms being a hodgepodge of uniforms from the equestrian military and even the Osean and Belkan militaries were represented. As they passed him the smoke and lit it Richard smiled and blew a smoke ring saying
"Now that I have my smoke and I am happy why don't I tell you all what you want to know but first things first-" only to get cut off by a young boy, who couldn't be more than 15 or 16, who spat out
"Hurry the fuck up old man I really will kill you and I don't give a fuck what my commanders say!" and Richard spat out
"You dumb son of a bitch I was a member of the Ustio military and then joined the Equstrian air force and as I was saying I am Lieutenant commander Richard Augenstine and my serial number is 1004755" and he looked at them and spat looking at the kids
"Ear muffs you MOTHERFUCKERS!" and he yelled the last part as they slammed a taser into the barbed wire wrapped on his wrists. As he panted threw the pain the lead captor said
"You must be strong and I heard you mercs didn't smoke on the job so you can't even stick to your principles" and Richard laughed before saying
"You don't want me to cause if I do you will all die now I will tell you what lead to me being here" as he adjusted letting the barbed wire and handcuffs slide against his bruised back letting the pain subside
6 months earlier
Looking over at the training simulator for the dog fighting and he saw the Rainbow color and a girl with amber hair both worn under a cap of the equestrian air force and he smiled seeing the commander walk by and bark out
"You all think that you will be the lightning bolts and that the others are not the perfect candidates for such an elite fighting force?" and everyone yelled
"Ma'am yes ma'am!" and he smiled looking at Dash who he had seen around and been briefly introduced to and forgetting he wasn't staring straight ahead he heard
"Maggot you have something better to stare at other than at attention and if so it had better be damn good!" and Richard replied like a smartass
"Yes ma'am the cute girl right next to my wingman ma'am" and Dash and Lightning both blushed as Kevin callsign thunder slid her his number and trying as best he could to make sure that the commander didn't see it he heard her yell
"Thunder you and Blaze drop and give me 200 NOW!" and Richard and Kevin dropped into the push up position and they high-fives as both girls they had a crush on watched them and Richard chanted out
"UP, DOWN, UP, DOWN, 1" all the way to 200 or the better equivalent of 400 pushups and as they hopped up sweaty and dusty but smiling as it revealed the muscles Edge chimed out with her quiet voice
"You boys need to learn to control your emotions and not give into your rage" and Kevin snapped out
"Who the fuck are you and how do you fucking know what was going through my head!" and she looked at him and said
"My name is Kei Nagase but my comrades call me edge and I was a trainer and my boss captain Bartlett heard that your partner's call sign is blaze so let's see what you can do" and both boys got up and ran to the trainers which just so happened to be F5E fighters meanwhile dash and lightning were getting set up in the same aircraft for simulated air combat training and as they all pulled up Bartlett said
"Listen up nuggets I heard you are wonderbolts in training and I don't give a fuck I will see how far I can push you because Blaze may have gone a little soft on me" and Richard replied stunning his wingman who had heard all about blazes exploits in the yuktobanian war
"Not a chance in hell and I will show you what I am capable of" and with that Richard flipped the switch and was greeted the chunk and thud followed by the shuddering of the airframe and all the weapons on the panel going green showing that everything was armed and he dropped back into the trail position and got the warbling tone that turned into a high pitch chirp and having fallen back he heard two voices come into his head set worried
"Hey kid I saw that you fell into the trail position so are you alright?" and he heard Dash say calmly
"Boy if you have problems let me know and I will escort you back" and he clicked out he was ok and Kevin pulled alongside with dash forming up on Richards right wing and Kevin flying as the second wing leader on his left with Lightning dust on his left and as they formed up with the rest of the war dog squadron in front of them and Richard told his flight of 4 with the rest of the squadron in front of him with Archer having a crush on nagase and he smiled as his cohort who had been a part of them showed his skills calling out
"We are feet wet and be on the lookout for anything" and Richard and Kevin were looking around but it was Lightning who called
"Two bogies at 11 o'clock high" and Spitfire called out
"You do not engage unless I give the order" and Bartlett and Richard spat out
"Shove it we are not going to let our squadron die" and Blaze and Thunder smiled and snapped the sticks with Dash and lightning following suit and the dogfight training the so called nuggets had just gone through gave them the edge and the split-S into the Immelmann and Lightning and dash's Cobra maneuvers put them all on the targets and having flipped the safeties off all of them yelled
"FOX 2 FOX 2" and Richards sidewinders slammed into the fighter as the others missiles all dropped them and as the rest of the group turned around Blaze saw a fighter on Archers tail and dropping from 6 o'clock high he held down the trigger of the 20mm canon which fired a stream of APIET, Armor Piercing Explosive Incendiary Tracer which would vaporize most aircraft, into the MiG-29 and he saw the aircraft shutter and then burst in a ball of fire and he watched the man eject and Archer thanked him before turning as Richard followed him and said calmly
"Splash one but this war is far from over" almost as if he were taking out the trash and they all expected to be punished and they wouldn't have to wait to be thrown back into the fray.