The Ultimate Weapon Chapter 2-Ambushed!
Disclaimer: I do not own road rovers or any of its characters.
The sun is high above the scorched, parched ground of the Nevada desert further adding to the image that this was nothing more than a barren wasteland, a place where no life could be supported for long. Indeed, it would be hard to believe that there was a huge city inhabited by millions of people on the edge of the monotonous scenery of the desert. A rare occurrence was to transpire this day though, as activity is seen in the middle of the desert wasteland.
"Looks as though Exile's having some darned good fun up there, like usual." Coleen points out from the passenger seat of the street rover, placing her hand in front of her eyes as she tries to block out the glare of the sun reflecting from the armour of the sky rover above them.
"Yeah, I just hope he doesn't scuff the finish." Hunter replies in a half-concerned, half-joking manner as he squints up at the jet while it corkscrews and loops above them.
"Oh leave the bloke alone 'Unter. When has he ever crashed that thing?" Coleen again points out, while in the backseat Shag makes a series of low whimpers and groans. "Yeah, but that was our first ever mission Shag and besides that old scoundrel Parvo did attack us."
"Since when could you understand him?" Hunter asks in a somewhat surprised tone. Usually, he was the only one that could understand Shag's…unique way of speaking.
"Not to be funny or anything 'Unter, but we have been together a good couple o' years now, you begin to learn after a while." Coleen explains in a manner similar to that of explaining to a two-year old that 2+24.
Before Hunter can reply though, a mildly static message emanates from the radio. "Dha, Hunter pleeze make him stop. He's out of control und I'm about to lose my lunch!" Blitz pleads into the radio microphone.
"I love being road rover!" Exile exclaims from the pilot seat in the cockpit, spinning the wheel and letting go to send the jet spinning wildly in a series of corkscrew loops. "Look, I am flying without my hands!" It wasn't hard to tell that he was excited to be back behind the controls of an aircraft.
Blitz in the co-pilot seat next to him on the other hand, was clinging onto the radio microphone for dear life, petrified cries and sobs escaping his mouth. "Don't be weird boy!" Exile retorts frowning while Blitz makes his plea to Hunter.
"Alright come on Exile, slow down a bit before Blitz has a conniption fit." Hunter orders from the street rover radio while trying to hold back a laugh.
"You're the bosski comrade." Exile replies picking up his own radio microphone and stopping the rapidly spinning wheel of the jet with his left hand. Immediately the sky rover stops turning, the force sending the radio from Blitz hand into his face, knocking him into a daze.
"Oh and Exile was enjoying himself so much." Coleen says shaking her head and tutting, clearly unconcerned for Blitz's discomfort.
"Alright that's enough Coleen we have a job to do, according to intelligence, Parvo's forces aren't far from here." Hunter says to Coleen before talking over the radio to Exile. "Exile, I need you to go ahead in the sky rover and take a look, let us know what's happening in the canyon. We'll wait here for ya' and decide what to do once you've reported back."
"Understood comrade, be seeing you before it is the time of lunch!" Exile replies into his own radio before he puts it back onto its holder. He then pushes a couple of buttons under the throttle handle to give the engines a boost. Just as Blitz starts shaking his head to awaken himself from the stunned daze he had been forced into, he is forced back into his chair with his tongue sticking out of the side of his mouth as Exile forces the sky rover forward.
"Gee 'Unter, are you sure that it's a good idea to send 'em off alone? What if they run into trouble?" Coleen asks Hunter as he slows the street rover down to a stop. In the backseat, Shag seems to whimper in agreement.
"Relax you guys, Exile's a crack pilot and with that super vision of his he'll easily be able to spot anything dangerous. The only way something can go wrong is if they knew we were coming." Hunter replies, lying back in his seat with his hand out of the window and switching the air condition on. "And besides, we're only a few minutes away if they do need our help."
"Well I guess your right 'Unter, still ya' can't help, but worry." Coleen sighs, folding her arms and sitting back in her seat.
Back in the sky rover Exile scans the horizon for any sign of the canyon where Parvo's forces were supposed to be, using his supervision to his advantage, leaving no stone unturned.
"Dha, Exile! Why can't you warn me when you are going to fly like a crazy man?" Blitz asks irritably, rubbing his head where a small lump was forming.
"Freeze out weird boy! I am only having a bit of fun. Besides, with my super eyes, nothing can go wrong!" Exile states confidently, grinning cheekily at the Doberman.
"Ja, but still; that really hur-!" Blitz begins before Exile suddenly cuts him off.
"Please be shutting your trap! I can see something!" Exile exclaims, squinting at something in the distance. As they fly closer, Exile can clearly see that it is a canyon, most likely the one where Parvo's forces were supposed to be. "I think I found the canyon! Let me be getting a closer lookski." He adds, pulling back on the wheel to take the sky rover higher so as to get a better look inside the canyon.
"That is very strange." Exile says as they make it to a distance where he can see the canyon floor. "There is nothing down there, nothing at all, just rocks and dirt!"
"Ack! What do you mean you can't see anything? This is dha right canyon, right?" Blitz asks annoyed with Exile for telling him to shut up. "Don't tell me you forgot how to use your super vision! Let's just go in for a closer look."
"Me? Forget how to use my super eyes? You are being stupid! I am pro boy at this!" Exile retorted. With his Russian pride, he was insulted by the thought that he wasn't capable. "Fine, we'll go in for a closer lookski."
Exile pushes the wheel downward now to lower the sky rover closer to the canyon, as they get closer though, he still can't see anything out of the ordinary and so he pulls the throttle down a little to slow the jet down for a quick flyby over the canyon.
"See? I told you there is nothing there!" Exile says a little loudly, confused that there was nothing there and still annoyed with Blitz implying that he was useless.
"Dhat's impossible! This was definitely the canyon; there are no others around!" Blitz replies frustrated that it appeared as though the images had been wrong. Suddenly, an alarm rings and a red light begins to flash and whir around the cockpit. "Ack, du leber! What is it now?"
"That's impossible!" Exile exclaims with a confused look on his face, suddenly anxious. "It's saying that we have got somebody locking onto us!"
"What do you mean someone is locking onto us? You mean with a missile?" Blitz asks searching around the canyon. "There is nobody here, but-" Blitz begins, but is suddenly once again cut off by Exile talking and suddenly throwing the throttle to top speed.
"There is definitely something following us! Look at radar!" Exile shouts above the alarm, holding his hands firmly on the wheel. The radar in between the two clearly showed something following them fast, getting closer by the second. "Hold on weird boy, this not being easy."
Before Blitz can say another word, Exile pulls back hard on the wheel to send the sky rover straight upwards in a vertical line, the missile narrowly missing the tail of the jet. Steadily the jet struggles upwards, but eventually the engines begin to stall, unable to produce the lift required to keep the jet in the air.
"Ahhhh! Exile what have you done? You are going to kill us!" Blitz screams, cowering in his seat and starting to suck his thumb.
"Don't be weird boy!" Exile shouts, pulling the wheel toward him while turning it right to make it face the earth again, to try and get the engines working again and to avoid the missile as it loops back to get at them again. Unfortunately as Exile pulls the sky rover back, the sun shines directly into his eyes, blinding him and forcing him to throw his right arm up to guard his face. He feels his insides move as the G-force hits him, telling him that they are now plummeting back towards the earth.
Exile keeps his left hand firmly on the wheel, while he uses his right to rub his painfully sore eyes, unable to see anything but a haze of bright green dots. He growls loudly from the pain and feels a sickening lurch in his stomach as he feels the sky rover shudder violently, accompanied by a loud noise that can only be from an explosion; they had been hit.
He fumbles around the cockpit controls with his right hand trying to look for the radio, keeping his left firmly on the wheel, trying to squint hard through his sore, watering eyes, but it was near useless, he couldn't see anything except those darned green spots.
Finally, he feels his fingers close around the radio microphone, bringing it to his mouth he yells; "April day! April day!" Into the microphone.
Unlike Exile, Blitz had had his eyes shut tight when they had faced the sun and could now see everything that was going on around them. They were falling toward the earth nose first in a spiralling dive after the missile had hit them and it now seemed the situation was beyond Exile's control. In between sobs for his mummy, he had been shouting for Exile to pull up or do something to save them, but for some reason he seemed to have his eyes closed and didn't seem to be able to open them.
"Ack! Du leber! How many times do I have to tell you? It's May day!" Blitz soon shouted frustrated and scared now that Exile seemed to have lost control.
"Grab your wheel and pull up hard, you stupid weird boy!" Exile shouted back, positively fuming now, he couldn't see, his eyes were in great pain, Blitz didn't have the sense to try and help or else was too scared to and on top of that, he had just dropped the radio. Now, he held both hands firmly on the wheel again and pulled as hard as he could, hoping that it would help them pull out of the death spiral.
Blitz shook his head hard to try and bring himself to his senses a little more before he finally grabbed his own wheel and started to pull on it hard. "Mummy, mummy, mummy, mummy!" He kept muttering under his breath as the ground drew closer. They had started to make a small impact on the dive with their efforts, though even Blitz could tell it wouldn't be enough to avoid the inevitable crash, they were going too fast and the sky rover was too badly damaged, but maybe, just maybe they could do enough to get out of this alive.
Slowly, but steadily the nose of the sky rover began to move upward, but with the spiral so violent, it would be a matter of luck and good timing that they managed to crash the right way.
Hunter and Coleen are comfortably sitting back an relaxing, while Shag sits in the back seat pulling various food items from his fur and chomping them down without much effort. It's been a few minutes since they lost sight of Exile and Blitz in the sky rover, but they weren't too concerned, maybe they were just having trouble finding the canyon in the sun.
Suddenly though, the calming quiet in the street rover is interrupted with an emergency message on the radio, clearly from a panicked Exile. "April day! April day!" Is all they can hear before the message is interrupted by some ominous sounds blaring out in the background, including some incomprehensible words from a clearly terrified Blitz, replied to by some angered shouting by Exile.
Immediately, Hunter reaches out and picks up the radio with Coleen and Shag leading forwards to listen. "Exile? What's happening? Is something wrong? Exile! Blitz! Are you alright! Answer me!" Hunter calls down the radio in a highly concerned voice. After a couple of seconds of continued ominous sounds, the transmission is ended with the sound of Blitz and Exile shouting together and a loud burst of static before the line goes dead.
A deafening silence falls upon the three in the street rover; Hunter's hand is trembling violently, clutched tight around the radio microphone. "Exile…Blitz…" Hunter whispers weakly into the microphone. Nothing, just pure silence is the response that he gets. After a brief glance at Coleen in which their eyes meet, Hunter slams the radio back into it's holder, turns the keys in the ignition to start the engine and puts his foot down on the accelerator to get the street rover speeding toward the direction of the canyon.