Skies Unknown : The Southern Cross
SWCipherZero, 2019.
A/N : Alright, I put In the Zone on hold so I could start this, a little, Headcanon Idea, if you will.
Prologue : Constellations
Chopinburg, Usea, May 30th, 2024.
"5 years ago, in this very rainforest, which I now call home, my life flashed before my eyes. Why am I still alive? How much blood have I taken just like that predator. I may never know."
This is what I lamented in my head ever since I returned to Usea after an overseas life. I was so naive back then.
My name, doesn't matter, all that does, is that I've saved the world once, fought in two wars, thousands of miles apart, with two TAC names. I can't remember much, but all that does matter is that I'm alive.
My two patches stay on the table I am sitting at now. Two squadrons, Two Air Forces thousands of miles apart. Two very different worlds, but I am only one Person. Controlled by fear, the lack of time, the skies that I once flew, but never will.
The Two Squadron patches read as follows, IUN-PKF, 16th Carrier Group, 506th Fighter Attack Squadron "Golem" and Aurelian Air Force, 1st Tactical Fighter Squadron "Gryphus" those are my deployment records.
"Tess, you sometimes have to forget who you once were and move on."
"I know."
My name is Tessa "Brownie" Thompson.
Golem 2 and Gryphus 1.
Oured, Osea, 1998
I was born in Oured, the capital of Osea, the only memory I have from that day is the starry sky I looked up towards and the first Constellation I looked up at.
The Southern Cross.
I didn't know that I would become an icon.
The curtain opens, in 2019, with my training.
Present
"Tom, you gotta let up on me, I'm writing a damn book."
"I know, Tess."
A/N : Just a little teaser before the first real chapter, this is going to be somewhat canon compliant, but I'll explain as we go on.