Chapter 7 - Fire in the Sky

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"Here they come!" Announced the Colonel.

Ascending into the air were about 25 Drone fighters. They were unmanned aircraft that were being remotely controlled by a series of pilots aboard the aircraft carrier.

"I count 25!" Wonder Woman added up the amount.

"That just means there's 25 fighters to shoot down, Diana. let's do it!" Steve began to spin his Superhornet and fly it around Top gun style.

Kenny began to chase after a drone, but using his chainguns, he couldn't hit it. Eventually, Batman came in from behind, and shot the drone down with a well timed series of bullets.

"Who was that?" asked Kenny.

"That's Rogue 1, Rogue 6." Replied Batman.

"Ok then, cool!" Kenny flew off towards the aircraft carrier and looked for another drone to shoot down.

Meanwhile, Wonder Girl had a drone lock-on to her tail.

"Shoot! This is Rogue 5, I have a drone on my six!" Wonder Girl yelled out.

"This is Rogue 2, i'm coming for you, Cassie."

Wonder Woman flew her plane up behind the drone, and sent off a heatseeking hydra missile, which found the drone fighter and exploded it into a million pieces.

"BANG!" Steve yelled over the radio.

"Sorry to have to show you such bad habits." Wonder Girl swallowed her pride.

"You're welcome!" Wonder Woman replied.

Robin followed a 3-drone cluster and locked a hydra missile onto the one in the centre, and pulled the trigger. The missile came out, and blew up the centre drone, and the other 2 drone fighters got caught in the explosion and began to crash towards the Pacific Ocean.

"Holy Hydra missiles! 3 for the price of one!" Robin used his favorite word.

"That was a good shot, Robin. But we're not out of the fight yet." Replied Batman

Steve eventually had a drone on his tail.

"Oh, crap! Hey! I got a drone on my 6, he's not letting go of me." Steve announced.

Kenny flew over and got in good behind Steve, and locked his hydra missile on the drone, and blasted it out of the sky.

"Yes! First kill!" Kenny flew up into the sky.

"Thanks...who was that?" Steve asked

"Rogue 6, rogue leader." Kenny spoke joyously.

"Right on, Kenny!" Replied the Colonel.

Then, a drone locked onto Kenny.

"Oh shit!" Kenny tried barrel rolling, but it didn't do him any good.

"Hang on, Kenny, i'm coming for ya." Wonder Woman flew over and got in good on Kenny's six, and aimed a hydra missile at the drone chasing him, and shot it down. Kenny saw the explosion in the rear, and Wonder Woman flying through it.

"Private channel, Rogue 2?" Kenny banked hard right while Wonder Woman banked hard left.

"Private channel, go ahead." replied Wonder Woman.

"How come on everything we do together, the only reason I get out alive is because of you?" Asked Kenny

Diana began to whistle "Playin' with the boys" by Kenny Loggins and made Kenny chuckle a bit, as he knew where that song was from.

And then, just to chain up the saviors, a Drone locked onto Wonder Woman.

"Ah, shoot! There's one on my tail." Wonder Woman looked behind her.

"Hang on, Diana..." Steve, Kenny, Batman, and Superman all said at once..

There was a short pause. All the guys who really, really cared about Diana wanted to save her life, but obviously, 4 guys arguing over one girl is kind of funny.

"Superman." Said Steve.

"Superman..." Batman and Kenny said at the same time a moment later.

"My pleasure, boys!" Superman said in a happy tone.

Wonder Woman smirked a little, and then her boyfriend got in good behind her, and hit the drone with a hydra missile and blasted it out of the sky.

"Thanks, guys!" Wonder Woman giggled a little. After what she saw the night before, it was nice to know that there was at least 4 guys she knew who didn't look at her in a way she didn't like.

The dogfights continued until there were 3 drones remaining. Steve had shot down 4 of them, Batman had shot down 6, Wonder Woman had shot down 5, Superman had gotten 2, Robin could only hit the cluster of 3, Wonder Girl had gotten 1 and Kenny had gotten 1.

The drones split up and began flying erratically to avoid being locked onto. And unfortunately, there was only 3 hydras left amongst the group - Batman had one left, Wonder Girl had one left, and Kenny had one left. They also had chainguns, but it was a lot easier just to use the lock-on technology of the hydras, but if they were flying erratically, it wouldn't have been easy to take them down.

"Alright, let's clean em up, rogues!" Steve began the push for the final pieces of the dogfight.

Wonder Girl got up behind one of the drones with Wonder Woman at about 4 o'clock, acting as support.

"Ok, wait til he's in your crosshairs and then fire." Wonder Woman coached her secretary and protege.

"Gotcha!" Replied Wonder Girl.

The drone flew left to right and all over, but Wonder Girl didn't let him go.

"You're mine you flying piece of garbage!" Wonder Girl Taunted.

The drone finally slowed up a little, and Wonder Girl took her window of opportunity, and fired her chainguns and shot the drone square in it's engines, and it went spiraling towards the ocean.

"Yes!" Wonder Girl cheered.

"I see you, Rogue 5. Good work!" Rogue leader Steve praised his teammate.

Kenny got in good and close to a drone flying erratically in front of him.

"You wanna screw with me? You wanna play with The Coat!" Kenny fired his chainguns in spurts to see if he could by chance, hit the drone.

Robin came in from the rear at 8'oclock.

"Rogue 6, I'll take him if he banks left." Announced Robin.

"He's mine, Rogue 4, i'm not gonna let him get away!" Kenny grunted.

The drone began to bank to the left, and Robin went after him.

"Rogue 6, go to my 4, and stick with me!" Robin ordered.

Kenny now had to play the support guy for Robin.

"Alright, Rogue 4, I got ya." Kenny went to 4'oclock.

The drone continued to fly erratically. It eventually flew downward towards the sea, where Batman just happened to be flying his jet.

"Holy nosedive! He's headed for the sea!" Robin announced.

"I've got him!" Batman took aim in his jet, and his eyes intensified deeply. Then, with all the darkness that the dark knight could muster...

"...I'm Batman!"

Batman fired his last hydra missile and caused the drone fighter in front of him to explode into a million, white hot pieces of carbon and metal.

The final drone flew circles around Superman's jet.

"He's onto me." replied Superman.

"I've got ya!" Wonder Woman came in and flew after the drone and tried gunning it down, but to no avail.

"He's too fast." Said Wonder Woman.

"There's 7 of us and one of him. One of us will eventually get him!" Steve tried to pump his team up for one last rush.

Then Kenny came flying at the drone, and waited for an opportunity to strike.

"Hang on guys...I'm the odd one out." Kenny waited.

Then, the window of opportunity opened, and the drone began to bank upward, right in front of Kenny, who took 2 seconds to lock his final hydra missile on it, and fired. The missile went at high speeds and hit the drone square in the rear, and it blew up into a million pieces.

"The drone is down...repeat, the drone is down!" Kenny laughed.

"We did it guys! Great job!" Steve sighed a breath of relief. This was the most fun he had since getting out of the home to watch over his country.

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