Disclamer: no I don't own anything but I'd like to
"man that's a big scedule...A prep flight before lunch?" Sakura blinked and then looked again, "that can't be right" Sakura then turned to look at her best friend Tomoyo, "honestly...what do command think we are?" Tomoyo turned to look at Sakura and gave her trademark smile, "just pilots I guess...although your the main hot shot pilot around here" Sakura then looked down.
It was true, Sakura was the only one who in the midst of a huge battle, saved many of her friends by risking her own life.
'That was sure a close one...' Sakura then looked to Tomoyo, "so...what do we have today?" Tomoyo then blinked "well the commander did say that he wanted to see you before lunch" "before or after lunch?" Tomoyo then thought for a bit "after" Sakura then sighed and walked toward a seat and sat down "there doesn't seem to be much activity no-a-days..."
'it's better that way anyway...' Sakura then sighed to herself, 'I ,mean yesterday I could of lost someone...' The images were still fresh in her head, watching one of the rookies go down was hard enough but when she was watching her friends go down as well, it was to much, "Tomoyo" Tomoyo then span around "yes Sakura?" Sakura then looked at Tomoyo "I'm thinking of quitting" Tomoyo then looked at Sakura as though she had been shot "your kidding!" Sakura shook her head.
"I can't watch anyone else get killed under my wing" Tomoyo just stared at Sakura in shock "are you mad? if you quit then who will look after the new recruits?" "you could" Sakura then sighed and leaned back "I've heard of a hotshot, he calls himself Herro" Tomoyo blinked "Herro? that's a weird name isn't it?" Sakura nodded "yeah well, if you take over command of the little-ens I'll be around" Tomoyo then sighed "are you sure you wana do this?" Sakura nodded again "yes Tomoyo" "ok then" Tomoyo then walked off down the corridor to tell the commander what Sakura had told her.
Walking down one of the bases corridors, Tomoyo was walking toward were the commander should be, "I can't believe Sakura wants to quit" Just as Tomoyo was finishing her sentence, Naoko was wondering past, "what?" Tomoyo looked up and saw Naoko in the complete fight pilots outfit that the base had become used to seeing, "Oh Naoko!" Naoko blinked and turned around "yeah?" Tomoyo walked up and past Naoko so Naoko walked with Tomoyo, "I was just on my way to see the commander" Naoko looked at Tomoyo curiously "why's that?" Tomoyo sighed and looked at Naoko, "Sakura..." Naoko being curious and worried about one of her friends blinked, "What about her?" Tomoyo noticing that if Naoko caught on then things would get complicated, "Nothing!" Tomoyo then smiled hoping that it would make Naoko believe her.
"you sure?" Naoko looked very worried now, all Tomoyo did was nod "ok, we're here, I've got to get to the showers before they take off again" Naoko then ran toward were the showers were located, "Nice Talking to you Tomoyo!" Tomoyo looked up and shouted after her "bye!" Naoko nodded while she was running, "bye!" was the faint reply.
Tomoyo then carried on walking down the corridor "I couldn't tell Naoko about Sakura. It would just ruin her day" Just as she said day the Commander of the whole base walked past her, "Commander!" The Commander blinked trying to regester who had spoken but his eyes got to Tomoyo, "Tomoyo" "I wanted to talk to you" The Commander sat down and Tomoyo joined him "Umm...well... it's about Sakura..." The commander looked at Tomoyo "do we need to speak in private?" Tomoyo nodded and the Commander got up, "okay" The Commander then walked into his office on the other side of the corridor and motioned for Tomoyo to walk in. Tomoyo walked into the office, the office looked rather nice and clean but that wasn't why Tomoyo was in here, "So Tomoyo" The Commander sat down after shutting the door of the office, "Sakura want's to quit!"
"What?" The commander couldn't believe what he was hearing, The main hotshot pilot wanted to quit, "I don't really understand it either but that's what she wants" The Commander looked at Tomoyo sternly and concerntrated, If she left then this base would be a prime target for the enemy..., "I can't let her do that Tomoyo" Tomoyo then drew in another breath, "She seems pretty set on it" The Commander then being curious asked, "any idea why?" "She doesn't want to see anyone else die" The Commander knew that this would be a problem and he sighed, "She's a really good fighter pilot Tomoyo..." Tomoyo nodded, "I don't know if she'll change her mind. It doesn't seem to likely though" It was the Commander's turn to nod, "I'll let her go on Friday, if she changes her mind do let me know"
Tomoyo nodded, "okay then, anything else Tomoyo?" "Well...no" The Commander then nodded, "Okay, then you best get back to her no?" Tomoyo then blushed at this, "Y-y-y-eah,... excuse me" Tomoyo then got up and walked out of the office and back to where Sakura is.
When Tomoyo entered Sakura was standing up looking at the sky, watching planes take off and land and others just circling because they didn't know what to do, "Sakura?" Tomoyo walked up to Sakura and Sakura turned around, "hum?" Tomoyo then smiled at her "Are you ok?" Sakura then sighed and nodded, "yeah... I've got to go up there in a while" Tomoyo then looked at Sakura "ummm...are you sure you want to...quit?" Sakura then looked at Tomoyo, "well, thing is Tomoyo, I'm just so tired of watching plane, after plane crash into the ground with no hope of survival because they don't know what to do!" Tomoyo then nodded, "Will Litenent Kinomoto please report to the breifing room" Tomoyo then looked up "look's like we're next" Tomoyo watched what Sakura was watching...the planes "sometimes, I can't even see up there" Tomoyo then blinked "really? I thought you could see in the high speeds up there" Sakura then sighed "There's a lot you need to learn Tomoyo, such as even I get blurred vision sometimes" Tomoyo then looked at the aeroplanes again and there was a small cluster coming together, "looks like there's another squadron out"
Sakura then sighed, "Looks like we're going up again...say" Sakura tilted her head as she walked in step with Tomoyo, "what is it Sakura?" Sakura then smiled slightly, "I'll give you 10 dollars if we're not babysitting" Tomoyo then nodded and giggled, in this base in perticular you could bet with other pilots, "and I get 10 dollars if we are?" Sakura nodded, "although I think we've got to babysit today" Tomoyo nodded, Entering the briefing room Sakura looked at the guy in charge of the mission that they were going to go on "ok, what have you got for us?"
The guy then said the words that Sakura had come to hate, "You mission is basically to babysit Sakura" Tomoyo then asked "what do you mean?"
The guy looked at Tomoyo "well, what I mean is that you have to look after some people and then some civilans" Sakura then asked "do they have experiance in an aircraft yet?" The guy shook his head "oh" Tomoyo then looked at Sakura as she groaned.
"Can't I get just one flight which doesn't mean me flying babysitter?" Tomoyo chuckled at Sakura's humor, "Actually you had a nice flight yesterday night" Sakura then looked at the guy as though he was crazy "It wasn't nice! It was full of trouble!" Tomoyo then whispered to Sakura "Then isn't this better?" Sakura then nodded, "sort of"
"Okay get going!" Sakura then started walking to the suit up room "okay, okay, loud mouth" Tomoyo smiled and followed her.
In the suit up room there were uniform's absolutly everywhere, "say Tomoyo" Tomoyo looked to Sakura "yeah?" "why don't you ever flight solo?" Tomoyo then looked puzzled "it's because I'm not a pilot until I've been with you for a total of, 3 flights" Sakura then smiled "well, this is the third" Tomoyo then giggled "you forgot the helmet" Sakura then groaned "there's always something isn't there?" Sakura then started to fumble with the helmet and Tomoyo took it off of her "I'll help you" Sakura then nodded, "okay" Tomoyo then carefully put it on Sakura's head "okay?" Sakura then nodded, "yeah, say Tomoyo do you want to go and have a coffee later? after all I will be leaving when?" "Friday" "great, more time of annoyances" Tomoyo then giggled.
Walking outside Sakura then yawned and Tomoyo thought she'd catch flys "Tired?" Sakura then nodded, "yeah" Sakura then got into the F-14 Tomcat plane that she had customized.
"I'm sure you'll perk up soon" Tomoyo got in behind Sakura, "Here's hoping" Sakura then started the plane's engines up and rolled it out onto the runway.
"hold on then" Sakura then held onto the control's tightly "Let's go" Sakura then powered the plane into the sky and banked the Tomcat up and to the left, Sakura then yawned and sat "and now" The Tomcat then went straight down and Sakura pulled up before the canyon could hit the plane, "Please don't be so unenthusiastic" Tomoyo said into her intercom to Sakura, "what?" Sakura then missed another part of the canyon wall, as they were in the canyon Sakura had to concerntrate here and there, "Having fun Tomoyo?" Tomoyo then shook her head "No...Because your not" Sakura then sighed, 'okay then Tomoyo' Sakura then started laughing and pushed the modified Tomcat into over 2,000 miles per hour. Tomoyo then started to laugh, Sakura then missed a building and started doing all kinds of stunts, such as the loop-de-loop, "I'm happy your enjoying yourself" Sakura then smiled, "good" Sakura then turned her F-14 upside down and flys close to the floor but managed to keep it alive, and then Sakura span the craft upright and started doing crazy stunts, such as flying inbetween buildings.
"Just don't get to carried away" Sakura then speed the craft up to over 5,000 miles per hour "Why not, I like mach 5" Sakura then started moving her head left and right, "I feel dizzy" Sakura then came deadly close to killing them both which made Tomoyo scared, "Please be careful Sakura" "huh?" Sakura then chips the wing of her plane on a part of a building and then uprights her plane.
Tomoyo being scared half to death looked at Sakura, "P...please be careful..." Sakura then took the plane into the clouds, "I can't afford for you to die Tomoyo" Tomoyo then looked at Sakura as though she was crazy "what are you going to do?" Sakura then smiled, "I'm just going to have a dogfight with one of our enemy friends...Sayoran" Tomoyo then gulped, "don't you remember what happened last time?" Sakura then nodded and smiled, "ah well" Sakura then piloted her craft so that her and Sayoran where on a straight course towards each other and Sayoran banked left and Sakura did the same making a good chicken in the sky. Sakura then pressed the button that made Tomoyo's seat eject but Sakura keep on flying, of course closing the cockpit while doing so.
"EEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHH?" Tomoyo then cluched her seat and parachute as she watched the mother of all dogfight's between Sakura and Sayoran.
Sayoran keep fireing and Sakura keep dodging, "be careful" Sakura then nodded from within her F-14 modified Tomcat, "I will" Sakura and Sayoran then battled for the good part of the afternoon, that was until Sayoran landed a lucky shot on Sakura's plane and it ended up flying straight at the ground and lucky enough it bounced before it crashed because Sakura had tried to pull up.
Coming out of the clouds was Herro and he and Sayoran fought in the skys while Tomoyo screamed "SAAAAAKKKKUUUUUURRRRAAAAA! can't this parachute go any faster?" Tomoyo then landed on the ground and without thinking ran at full pelt toward Sakura's plane.
"DAmn it!" Sayoran then got not only Herro on his tail but another aeroplane he didn't recognise "WHo is that?" The transmission from the unknown plane came to him "Your Worst Nightmare" Sayoran then gulped, "it can't be..." "it is" The black and white aeroplane then shot Sayoran out of the sky almost as fast as he had got in to the battlefield, Sayoran then dissapered. Herro then flew back to base as the black and white aircraft circled above Sakura's downed plane, "poor girl"
On the ground Tomoyo had made it to Sakura's plane and it was now a complete and total wreck. "Sakura? are you there?" Tomoyo then picked up the phone inside the plane "help!" within moments The base personal, an ambulance, and the police arrive as does the Commander, "who did this?" Tomoyo then said before the Commander accused the plane circlulating above them "It wasn't his fault...it was Sayoran's" The Commander looked at Tomoyo and nodded, "okay"
The Black and White, F-15 then came into land near the crash site and the person inside ran to the crash site, "Who are you?" The commander asked the stranger, "I'm...that's not important" The stranger then worked with the police and ambulance crews and they found Sakura.
"ouch" Tomoyo then looked inside and whispered, "Sakura? are you alright?" Sakura then looked up and whispered back, "Tomoyo?..." Sakura then fell unconsious.
By the time they had got Sakura out of the plane, Sakura was bleeding and such the like, and she was taken straight to Hospital.
okay, that's all for now, Read and review everyone!