Welcome to the first chapter of the story! I have planned out the outline of the story so I will have no trouble in updating the next chapters, happy reading!

Santa Elva, Aurelia

Same Day, 01.35 P.M.


Carolina was inside her room reading her E-mails. She was in the middle of scanning through her mails when one mail caught her attention. It was an E-mail sent by their AWACS, Exta. Carolina immediately opened the E-mail and skimmed through the mail.

"Chris, could you come over for a while!?" Carolina shouted while standing in her doorway. "Yeah, Sure! Wait a sec!" Came the reply form Chris, who was downstairs. In a hurry, Chris went up the stairs and went inside Carolina's room. "Okay, I'm here, what happened?" He asked.

"Here." Carolina turned the screen so that Chris could look at it. "Wait, this is an E-mail sent by Exta?" Chris asked in the middle of reading the mail. "Well, just look at the address that sent the mail." Carolina rolled her eyes. "Okay, so here it says that we need to get back to Sachana." Chris sighed. "Just as I'm starting to loosen up." Carolina turned to him. "Hey, it means we're still of use to the Air Force." Chris nodded. "Carol, tell the others to pack their bags. We're leaving in a few." "Roger." Carolina saluted with a smile.

Ten minutes later, the whole Etherion squadron was at the living room of the house they're in. "Damn, so much for taking a break." Jacob sighed and yawned. "Stop complaining, it's our job you know?" Stella said while she rechecks her backpack, in case she forgot something. "I think you're more useful in the air than in the ground you know? You just mope around all day about the job." Chris sighed while looking at his watch.

"Sure, sure." Came Jacob's reply. "Wake me up when its time." He added and slumped against the wall. "Goddamn it, just wake up already!" Carolina facepalmed at the squad's antics while Chris shook Jacob awake. In the midst of the living room chaos, a car horn was heard.

"Okay, everybody, time to go!" Chris said while lifting his luggage into the car. He was the followed by Carolina, Stella, and lastly Jacob. After all of them went inside the car, it sped away to the air base that was located in Santa Elva.


Santa Elva Air Base, Santa Elva, Aurelia

02.09 P.M.


A man was pacing around in the hangars of the air base whilst holding his chin with his index finger and thumb. "Where the hell are they?" he mumbled to himself. Suddenly, a man with Aurelian uniform ran towards the mumbling man. "Sir! They've arrived!" He said. "Hmm? Are they? Okay then, let us go."

Both of them then went to the gate of the air base and stopped in front of a car that was parked just outside the gate. "Hey Calvin! Long time no see!" Jacob said to the man that had just arrived. "Long time indeed. What took you so long?" The man said, irritated. "Hey, chill. We got into a bad traffic jam on our way."Chris said while stepping in front of the man. The man just sighed and said, "Next time, try to find a better route to come here. Don't just rely on the GPS to get you here." "Yeah, I'll remember that." Chris said to the man.

The man who was mumbling to himself and went to get the squad was Calvin Anderson, also known as the AWACS Exta in missions. He had Black hair and blue eyes and aged at 29, quite young for an officer like him.

"By the way, our fighters are stores right here, right?" Carolina pointed to the hangar behind Calvin. "Of course, where would we put them aside from the hangar?" Calvin said. "We're all scheduled to depart to Sachana Air Base on 04:21 P.M, so don't spend too much time recalibrating your fighters, dismissed." Calvin said and the squad immediately went inside the hangar.

Inside the hangar, four F-4E Phantom II Fighters were lined up. Each of them bearing the emblem of the Etherion squadron, a pair of stretched wings with a halo on top of them which was located on the tail fin of the fighters. Inside, the squad was already starting to recalibrate the system.

"Let me test this one. Damn." Chris sighed inside his cockpit. "Damn altimeter just won't get me the right altitude." He mumbled and continued working on the fighter. Meanwhile, Carolina had no problem when she tried to recalibrate her fighter's systems. The same couldn't be said with Jacob though, as he was at the verge of shouting to his dashboard due to heavy system malfunction.

"All systems green." Stella said with a smile. Stella did have some problems on recalibrating her fighter, but due to her knowledge of the fighter's system, it's no problem for her to restore the fighter's system back to mint condition.


Runway, Air Base, Santa Elva, Aurelia

04:19 P.M.


All four of the F-4E Phantom II fighters of the Etherion squadron was on the runway. The fighters are now ready for flight ad combat after two grueling hours of recalibration by the pilots.

"Etherion Squadron, this is control tower. Check in over." A voice said from the comms system inside Chris' fighter. Chris inhaled and said, "Etherion 1, Checking in." it was then followed by, "Etherion 2, Checking in." and another, "Etherion 3, Checking in."and finally, "Etherion 4, Lazing off."

"The fuck?!" Chris exclaimed in surprise. "Hahahahaha! Whooo, that's some check in line!" Calvin laughed inside his AWACS which had just lined up behind the squadron and awating take off. "Remind me to kick his ass when we land." Chris sighed. "Ay, I'm just chillin' around yo." Jacob said lazily from inside his cockpit. "Besides, a little humor won't hurt."

"Sure." Chris said. "Control Tower, this is Etherion squadron, requesting takeoff, over." He said . "This is Control Tower, Etherion squadron, you're clear for takeoff over." Came the permission. "Roger, Etherion 1, Taking the skies." Chris said, flared up his afterburners and took off from the runway.

Behind him, Carolina followed suit. "Etherion 2, Ready to launch." Stella flared up her afterburners and sped up. "Etherion 3, Unfolding wings." Jacob followed just behind Stella. "Etherion 4, Starting the party!"

The control tower then granted permission to the AWACS to launch, which the pilot of the AWACS craft immediately complied and soon, the squad, accompanied by their AWACS left for Sachana Air Base, where a surprise waits for them.