1st Lieutenant Chie Kashiwagi
The air felt so heavy,even though we're just around eight thousand feet.
Yet the fighting getting intensified.
...Rapidly.
I don't know what really happened, me and two other squadron members flying F-35AJ currently battling five J-20s eleven miles west of Hokkaido, we lost one good guy in this fight...now...me and my Elder sister Maki were on our own, against five planes with no known NATO naming yet attacking us relentlessly. One of it tailed Her flying away from me at my right, she made hard right turn and climbed to angles 8, without any thoughts I chased her hunter "Chusai,hang tight!" I assured her as I speed up my Lightning II for Heatseeking missile Lock-on range which I attain within five seconds and "Fox two!" one of my Type 04 to the Unmarked fighter firing its 30mm cannon to her, the missile went to one of the exhaust and tumble it to the ocean 7.000 feet below me. I saw her plane just fine, it open the weapon bay door and fires an AMRAAM to a plane went left ahead, it hits the left wing of the J-20 within seven seconds, tumble down another chinese built 5th Gen fighter. What next?
Then my RWR crying outloud the cockpit as another threat follows behind me. I break hard right to catch a glimpse of another two went leftward trying to get Maki, but that's not the most worrying, as I steered left I could saw her steered towards me while being pursued and rained by guns, alright Thought...I'll take down her chaser head on. I armed another of my T04 missile, i have two more of this stored within my plane, manually open one weapons bay door, without have to wait I got a lock tone as the IFF Box within the guidance grids visible by my HMD i use to always gaze to my target, "Fox Two!" I almost cried as I saw her plane too fired another AMRAAM to my chaser, "Maki! Pull Out!" I cried to her, but she didn't respond, her AMRAAM destroyed my chaser, shutting down my RWR. Mine...her chaser dumped flares and makes my missile missed its target, yet she still not mind her back. Her chaser rained her with guns, she got hit, I paced up to help her, but somehow time felt slowed to crawl speed, my sister...and her chaser too fly slow like me, then except for the missile launched on chasers left wing, it sprinted normally to her F-35 and destroyed it wholly, consuming her live, the explosions blinding me for a split second which then time went normal.
She's nowhere.
"Wolfpack Four Six, Chitose Base, RTB! I say again : RTB!"
No. I won't return yet, I must avenge her.
I ignored the command, went full afterburner head on with her killer, readied my last heatseeking missile. I got a lock tone,fired it, and saw it comply to avenge my only family I had since the first timeI saw the world. Job almost done, then there's i ask where's the other one? He must be here somewhere, I saw up to see nothing but cloud darkened the blue sea...its about to raining. Looked up everywhere to see none, until suddenly the RWR ringed again, looked to my radar...it's right on my path, exactly same altitude as where I am, and closing fast head on. I looked forward to saw the last plane in black smoke,flying right to my aircraft.
"Wolfpack 4-6, Come in!"
"Chitose base to Wolfpack 4-6, What's your Status!?"
Everything were white,I responded...
but...can't make them comply...I don't have my helmet with me anymore, mask, flight gear...
even my plane...
all I saw were white...
and a tall woman in flight uniform faded to the white, long hair, and white skin with pink rubberring on her left hand index finger. I couldn't move...I can't even see my form
"Maki!
To no avail.
Somewhere around Changi, Singapore
July 9th, 2020, 7.47pm
1st Lieutenant Henry Blackburn
1st Marine Recon
Task Force Grizzly
We got him.
We got him under the very guns of Zhongnanhai.
We got him before them, inside the Ford Transit my new friend from MARSOC Monila driven through the well flowed traffic of changi thanks to the 40mm HEMI Taser I thumped to Jin jie whose now laid unconscious, we're going to the Changi airport for a fast private jet plane straight to Aussie. No casualties we inflict to his loyalist, fucking shit hot thank goodness, we shot them all with the Tranquilized M9 sidearm. Now we're near the Airfield gate, five mikes ETA to our jet. I see Monila picked the GPS and scan the surrounding for possible bad guys, thankfully...Intel shows none. However,it might a wrong seeing, stay sharp and keep drive normally, my friend. We don't wanted a gunfight plus civilian casualties, aren't we? I pick the two trijicon TA31F fitted DDM4A1s and check the chamber and mag to find full thirty rounds plus its trigger locked to safe, I still have four other mags hidden in my gray hoodie jacket and my friend lift his left hand showing four fingers indicating the same number of mags like mine...we're all set, if there were firefight...we can still fight, what's best? Singapore, Malaysia and even Indonesian military aware of our ops and support our exfil until we're airborne, everybody needed the big man alive and well.
We have driven five mikes onto the jet without anything interesting on our way, thank god...we're getting further away from the land accursed with another coup d'etat now. The president regain conscious two mikes before we reached our Learjet,now...we'll say hello to heaven on earth.
"So its confirmed...chinese now on the brink of another devastating civil war...and General Liu Wong were now assume power on Beijing. Civilians were treated by PLA like dummy targets..."
"I hear you, ...though I'm not sure we could avoid major casualties like our previous attempt on Chang if we intervene there, I'm afraid death toll of our military may rise higher than before and..."
"I want no excuses here Captain Garrison, General Wong planned another bloody coup on china and incursion on Taiwan that is true, but that's not all he just up to. According to the NSA and CIA he has control of russian nuclear technology that has been stolen by a man named Solomon in 2014 and were using it to attack US embassies in Asia, we're talking about a war maniac that would wipe out Perth, Tokyo and I fear include Jakarta or Kuala Lumpur, not to mention his connection with terrorist cell JRA currently hiding out somewhere in Osaka waiting for his call and another one former Solomons loyals now plotting a bloody coup in Pyongyang which if happens...Captain Garrison...if you read history book...you know what I'm talking about"
"...Recapture of Seoul..."
"...Captain...Joint Chiefs of Staff has agreed to send considerable number of forces to Taiwan and Japan to counter his plan, I've also manage to have generals and the white house to agree on my proposal"
"What proposal,Mr. Secretary?"
"I've contracted a group of mercenary pilots for this one in case there are missions that extremely volatile for our diplomatic relations worldwide, files of their dossier would come to you tomorrow morning at eight. Oh...about the USS Valkyrie now, I also sent some private technicians to help fixed your damaged ship as well as a squadron of F-35B Lightning II led by Major Melisa Cunningham inbound to your ship now, you are ordered to set voyage destination west okinawa sea, fight a little longer until my friend the commander of the USS Bon Homme Richard could come in place of yours back from the state...we're done here"
"Aye aye, sir, I'll keep you appraised on what's going on there"
Ching Chuan Kang AB, Taichung, Taiwan
July 10th, 2020,7.42am
Ruben Riffkin
Here i am waiting for a JSOC guy for briefing, I'm not alone, on my right were the thai-texas blood Albert Reese whose now playing Brick breaker game on his Blackberry, and other three men I newly met, these trio were an AF guys from Eglin, Florida. Me and my pal here were a mercenary pilot hired by the Pentagon to help combating the coup led by General Wong, now he assume control of Beijing but thankfully CIA too has peeled off Jin Jie from China, if not...hell would break more looser than anyone wished. Kinda odd for me to think that small US military units would operated in taiwan, well...maybe small units but...taiwan were indigenous enough military, they don't need NATO presence here, maybe? They even sent six Bones (B-1B Lancer) here from Dyess and Elsworth. "Hey, you know here around? I mean Taichung?" I asked him, "(chuckle)..How should I know?I'm not a Taiwanese", "Ahh...Wanted to shop their cuisine though", "What? You wanna be a chef, now?", "Hey I ju...", "Atten-Hut!" Someone yelled that, right the time the JSOC...woman arrived. "Just stand up formally, no salute" I said to albert which he comply, we stand up before the yellow skinned mexican looking woman aged around 43 in formal Air Force Uniform with a name pin 'Maj. Gen. Elizabeth Mason', "At ease, Gentlemen" she said, we sit back ready for open ears. She looked to us the mercs, "You two...you're the merc?", "Yeah, used to be in the Air Force, a friend of mine in the Pentagon think i might able to help" I replied, "Well...sorry, no wonder you don't have any badges, well we do. So let's straight to the business anyway!" Neither me or Albert say or even look shit somewhere apart to her, "As we all know...our new friend of Admiral Chang has assumed control of beijing, time to say 'Hello' to another Chinese civil war, the PLAs attacked innocent peoples there and there...total mess all over Nanjing and Beijing", "Mass wipe out?", Albert whispered to me to which i just shrug, that rumors were fucking obscure anyway, "We got a team of combined Special Act Division and Marine SOC Forces that has covertly infiltrated Hong Kong palace to rescue Jin Jie, they also retrieved a mil-plan, wong launched an all out war against Taiwan, you know what I'm saying" She paused for a moment and playing her hands on her dask to which then the whole room went pitch black, for a moment before the Projector liting the whiteboard shine upon us again, with the satellite shot of the South china sea between China and the land we're now at, "First order of business for you is to leak chinese east and southeastern air corridor. Reported eight J-8s currently patrolling eastern Nanjing province, six miles inside were the staging area for their incursion to taiwan, Tanks, Artillery s, MLRS s, you named it they regroup it there, three battalions for initial attack and three more for total assault on the whole island, there is also a naval base further in the East china sea, assembling vessels to get them here", "That's some cold shit right there!" i can hear Albert muttered. "Gargoyle flight, your target is four J-8s patrolling the southeast shore, Eagle flight will fly north to the east sea take out four J-8s patrolling southeast of the naval base, opening a door for a bomber squadrons here to crushed the staging area and the naval base. Simple, straight forward and great fun...if you make it back alive in good shape. Questions?", I asked "Allied support and possible SAMs?", "We have four Growlers take off from Shimojishima to the SAMs Locations onshore for jamming and a Thunderbolt squadron taking off from Hsinchu to smash the SAMs with Mavericks and Cluster bombs, and that's it. Anymore?" I'm cleared, anyone else? They're too like me, ready. "Good, prep up now, you'll start in six minutes. Dismiss"
7.50am
We all set in this clear skies. Me and Albert flying typical unmarked F-16CJs armed with four AIM-9X-2s and four Meteors my boss provided, guys from the AF flying F-15Cs with weapon settings four X-2 Sidewinders and with four newest E-AMRAAMs. I could see 'EG' Tailcode on their stabilizers, under the Tailcode were their...bort numbers? "Eagle Flight, Tower, Clear for take-off. Gargoyle Flight, follow shortly", "Eagle One", "Gargoyle One" we ...the duo Gargoyle were about to enter the airstrip, the three Eagles went airborne, "Gargoyle flight, proceed directly for airborne","Roger, Tower. What a lovely morning shift", "Good luck, have a good day", "You too" I replied.
We're in the strip, time to burn up the weed. Without stopping, me and Albert went full afterburner and take-off to angles 2, "Base control to all flights, switch to Hawkeye fire control", I complied "Gargoyle flight, requesting pics and ROE" I open comms, "Eagle flight, request pics", "Gargoyle, Eagle, Hawkeye,Bandits on and off the shore near the ground targets, proceed to your flight routes as Fragged, stand by for update" replied the guys in E-2D somewhere, then half second later "Hawkeye, Magic Four One, flight of four EA-18s, tell the fighters we're currently above the water borders on hot jamming the SAM Sites" comm up another sailor somewhere right above the line. We gargoyles went north into the second waypoint ETA five minutes, deeper into the enemy territory at angles 3, nothing spiked us yet, "Not a bad scenery" Gargoyle 2 remarked the woods below us, "Yeah, except the sharks there" I replied him, "And some motherfucking jellyfishes" he end it up chuckling. Two minutes passed as we keep travel north with a quarter powered Afterburner while catch a glimpse on an A-10 below us about to doing what it was best at, the F-15s must already inside eastern sea now, looking for trouble with Shenyangs patrolling the southeast of the harbor. "Hawkeye, Gargoyle, we're flying deeper towards hostile area now", "Eagle Flight, we're further near the naval base...we have scope on civilian boats...nothing exciting yet" we sitrep,"Eagle, Hawkeye, Bandits from vector Zero Three Five angles 3, twelve miles closing to your position at high speed...Jay Eights, clear hot!", "Solid Copy, Hawkeye".
Here we go I thought, where are those doe-eyed motherfucking warmongers now? "2, arm your Meteor, saw a thing?","Negative" he replied me, we keep push forward with Master arm ready to fire our MBDA Meteor missile, "Gargoyle Flight, Bandits ten miles heading One Eight Zero angles 4 Mach 1 right to your position...Cap weapons free, I repeat : weapons free", "Thanks, Hawkeye" I replied, set my radar fifteen miles ahead...yes, they ain't wrong : four Shenyang J-8IIs in diamond formation coming at high speed to us, hopefully this will be simple shooting down job. Arming my Meteor I could hear a lock tone blared the cockpit but so as the tone indicate I'm spiked, "Fuck! I'm spiked...Fox Three away!" I announce launched two non US military issued version of Long range missiles to the incoming enemies, so as my wingman on my left side behind me, we split hopefully we could avoided their missiles while waited for ours to hit them, estimation shows in my radar info about twenty five seconds, "Eagle 1, Fox three!" The eagle lead said. We still waiting for chinese missiles fired to us, "There, my one o'clock!" Albert exclaimed, I saw two missiles went to us, "Chaff out!" We said accidentally almost same time, Chaff out...and the missiles missed us, looked back to my radar and saw a streak luck... "Splash Two!" I exclaimed to see all four blips gone from my radar, "Same here, boss! Wee wee wee!" Reese report, "Hawkeye, Gargoyle 1, round is complete unless you have another one to declare" I commed the Navy Controller, "This is Eagle 1, we have engaged seven bandits...picture is clean, round win!" the Eagle lead report, silence were their reply to us...until I got another radar contact from south, three blips coming northward IFF confirmed all were ally, "Bone Three, Bone Five One, clear for attack run" the AWACS green lighted the two bomber squadrons, so the ally blips on my radar were the Bones. "Gargoyle Eagle flight, Mission Complete. Clear for barn, well done you all just wrap it under a minute" again the Control commed us, isn't it amazing? Just downed four planes and done? "What about the SAM?" I asked, "Three Hogs has already take out all seven inside china","...Roger that, no complains here" I replied as I skipped to the third waypoint, steered to vector One Five Zero from Zero Four Seven, our next waypoint just four minutes ETA angles 2, then continue to land at Taichung back within our safe heaven after the very very easy money.
Ridiculous, haha! XD
8.39am
"Gargoyle 1, check gear"
"Tower, Gargoyle flight, gear and flaps check ready to land" I replied the controller
We now traveling 250 knots and slowing down smoothly to Ching chuan airstrip, Albert were on my left behind until now, behind us were the three Eglin Eagles with their landing gears and flaps downed follow suit. "Gargoyle 1, Eagle 1, clear to land...Welcome home". Altitude now 120 feet and continue descending smoothly, we're about to land right on the number painted on the strip...and boy, I were right. "Gargoyle and Eagle flight, taxi to free Spot via Bravo 4, Major General Elizabeth were waiting in the briefing room for debriefing" we complied to that keep our planes run slowly along the strip until we saw the B4 on the grass and take left on it and straight to the parking ramp. Our morning shift is over, next? Patrol the southeast skies start at 1600, now? Debriefing before say hello to Canteen. :)