Siege Breaker
By: JACM
Prologue: 'Scramble'
Author Note: This is a story base on the Darth Malleus story: The Thirteen. And I like to say I own nothing. Except for what I make her from just me. I'm still getting use to being a writer. But I'm working on it. As this is one of my first stories.
Colonel Paul Emerson ran quickly for his waiting F-302A fighter on the bases tarmac. His hurt shoulder, hunted from a bullet wound he got several months back. But it was nothing too serious to stop him from flying. Or even piloting in the front seat of an advance F-302A space superiority fighter.
As he got closer could already see his copilot already seated in the cockpit, in the rear seat. All getting the bird, all prep for takeoff.
The Colonel put on his flight helmet, just as he got to the stars and ran up.
"Feeling alright, sir?" said his co pilot, Lieutenant Dan in the back seat. As he saw the Colonel runs up the stairs.
"Just like new Dan." He said as he comes up the stairs, and jumps right into the front seat, "How about you?"
"Feel like I could take on the whole empire myself." Dan said, with a chuckle.
The Colonel giggle, as he knew that, that was from Star Wars-V: the Empire Strikes Back. "I know what you mean." He said mocking Luke Skywalker.
"Good luck, sir." A member of the flight crew said, as the man close manually the canopy for them. Doing a quick check to make sure it was close "All right, hatch secure." The man said, as he quickly slid down the stairs and moves with another the stair ramp away from the plane. As other members of the crew pulled away the breaking blocks on the wheels that were holding the F-302 fighter in its place, and not letting it run off by accident.
"Everything good back there, kid?" Colonel Emerson asked.
"Yes Sir." The young copilot said nervously, behind him.
The Colonel seeing the nervousness, decided to offer the kid a hand, as this may be ether one of them, or both last mission, "Scared kid?
"Yes, sir."
"Hey. It's good to be scared. Especially on your first real combat mission, which I must sadly add is in fact having us. And everyone else on Earth goes up right against a large alien armada of humans from a part of the galaxy very, very far away to conquer our little old bitty planet."
"Yes Sir."
The Colonel turn his head to looks back at him. "Just remember, do your job right, and we will all get out of this. Alive and well. As I will as I got a little girl, only parent to get back home to. As I'm not dying today, Lieutenant." As he pull the plane out of its park spot on the tarmac. And onto a cleared runway, for take off.
"Revan-296…you are cleared to lunch on runway 3." said controller in the bases tower over the com.
"Copy that control. Well kid, hang on as here we go."