Ch. 34: Beginning of the End: Tunnel Run

A/N: Did any of the citizens know what they were building? It's not that hard to figure out what a vertical heptagonal shaped doorway in a mountain means. Idk. Also, find a copy of Winter Palace by TSO. The tunnel run should start at 1:40 on the clock. Trust me.

Sudentor, North Osea, 2235, December 30,2010

"Razgriz, let's go!"

Blaze led his squadron from the southern end of the city towards the mountain tunnel. A big tunnel was an understatement. If the doorway meant anything, the tunnels looked as if they could fit three fighter jets flying on top of each other and just was wide.

"Uh… Captain? The door is still closed."

For being a large door it opened surprisingly quickly, drawing itself left. Blaze tilted 90° to the left, hugged the right side of the tunnel, and got past the door with afterburners at full. The rest of the squad following at various degrees as the door kept opening until it was fully drawn back.

"You good Grimm?"

"I am now."

"Good."

The next door went up vertically and was reached in under five seconds as Blaze ducked under it as it was opening up.

"Stray of course and you're done for!" Swordsman remarked.

The tunnel opened up into a large track-switch room or maybe it was a inner station. Blaze was paying too much attention to finding the next open pathway. It was on the right and ahead. The tunnel on ahead of him was closed. Blaze ducked again as the following door opened vertically. The tunnel sloped down for half a mile. Already, they covered about three miles under the mountain.

"Don't try anything risky! Fly straight ahead!"

"I know Marcus!"

The tunnel leveled out for another mile or so opening up into another large rail room. The tunnel ahead was closed and the path on the left was open.

"Enemy plane approaching from the rear. It's HAMILTON! Damn, he is good." Grimm reported!

Blaze growled. Oka Neiba probably tried to reach them but couldn't. Despite being a large tunnel, there was no real room to maneuver. Just had to make sure that Hamilton was a lousy shot.

"You aren't getting away Wardog! You're going to fly straight to your deaths."

The tunnel started to wind: a short left into a right, left, down, another left and then right.

"This is Heartbreak 1. I'm right in front of you guys, Kid!"

There was left coming up and a door that opened vertically. Blaze cut the power to his engines, banked left and ducked under the door as it opened up enough to have ten feet of space on both sides of his wings. It didn't faze him.

"Bartlett! I knew you wouldn't miss out on the action."

"You got that right Kid."

"Bartlett? You're alive?!"

"You know, you've always been too damn serious, Hamilton." Bartlett laughed.

The tunnel opened up into a third large area and once again the tunnel on the left was open. Blaze went in the tunnel and fallowed a slow left until the tunnel dipped and curved to the right.

"I'm going to take the Belkan nuke and terrorize both sides into ending this foolish war. Don't get in my way!"

The tunnel leveled out, turned right then went into a left. There was another door that opened up but it was easier to stay low and leveled under this one than the last. The target was coming up soon. Bartlett yelled at Hamilton about terror not being a friend to anyone.

"I know you can do it Blaze." Edge's voice was smooth and quiet."

"Thanks."

After ducking under the door, and going straight for a mile, passing some crane thing, the tunnel opened up again into large track-switch room. On the far wall, in the middle was the SOLG computer.

"FOX 2!"

Blaze fired two missiles the moment he was in range and switched to fire the XMAA's and his guns just in case. The resulting explosion confirmed a kill on a computer. Blaze banked right and made for the tunnel on the right. As he turned left into it, the tunnels started to shake. This tunnel was at least ten miles long and it was time to really push this plane.

This tunnel was shaped like a wide pentagon and Blaze ducked under the door ahead of him as it opened.

"This is Heartbreak 1! I destroyed the system core on my end."

"This is Archer! Captain Bartlett is approaching at high speed from our 12 o'clock. Is he going to…?!"

"We gotta do it." Edge was ready.

"I'll passing you by at full speed, all right? Break right on the count of three."

Blaze smiled. This was going to be awesome.

It was 5 more seconds before Bartlett showed up on radar.

"Okay. 1….2….3!"

Bartlett was a blur to Blaze and those following him as they were to him.

"YYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OO!"

Blaze could see the tunnel lead into another track switch room and took the left tunnel. If anything, this was going to be a mirror of the way they came in. Blaze nearly lost control as he entered in the tunnel but was able to catch himself as the tunnel started to climb.

"The shutters are closing!" Edge reported.

"Ok Razgriz, it's now or never. Let's not get caught in here!"

Blaze had a lock on an enemy plane.

"The enemy planes that came in after Bartlett are still in the tunnel." Swordsman said.

"Enemy planes dead ahead. We're being attacked from both sides!" Archer yelled as Blaze entered the tunnel on the left.

The tunnel started to climb and Blaze locked on to two Yellow su-37's and su-47 with his XMAA's targeting system screaming at him.

"My threat warning alarms won't stop ringing!"

As the tunnel leveled off, Blaze fired.

"FOX 3!" Three missiles tore off his plane with murderous intent and three explosions later proved the fruits of the labor. The tunnel opened up into a another track switch room. Blaze stayed in the top half of the tunnel as two construction crossbars passed underneath him and his squad. He aimed his Typhoon for the left tunnel.

"MOVE! THE SHUTTER IS CLOSING!" This shutter started to close from the left side of the tunnel as they entered in. It went into a shutter at the top was starting to close. Grimm was sweating bullets. He had to make it!

"Hey Lawson, have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moon light?"

Crap. Hamilton.

"Actually, yes. He never returns my calls, said that I'm too creepy and that you should give him back his sweater."

A missile hit the roof of the tunnel a ways ahead of Blaze as he leveled off with the tunnel. They could hear Hamilton growl.

"I'm going to kill you!"

The next few moments were harrowing to say the least. Blaze and Edge cleared the door easy. Swordsman got out with some space. Archer had to get low in order to even a remote chance of getting out. His missile warning alarm went off.

"GRRIIIMMM!"
"I'M OUT!"

Four planes rocketed out of the tunnel as the door closed and two explosions and a fire ball followed them.

"Grimm, you ok?"

"Yeah. I'm good. Let's not ever do that again."

"Where's Hamilton?" Edge asked.

"Dead." Grimm replied. "He was hit by debris from one of the enemy planes and then crashed into the shutter door."

Blaze only nodded in silence. He did as his parents wished. Well, sort of. He didn't exactly kill Hamilton. Oh well.

"Hey Grimm, what plane was he flying?"

"Uh… I was too terrified to look."

Blaze chuckled. "I would be too."

The four pilots shared a good laugh. It was over. The end was over.

"It's Pops. I'm sending you guys a location of where to land. Blaze, we need to talk."

"Roger."

Apparently not and Blaze could hazard guess why: The SOLG.

Yeesh. Short chapters, I think. but that's how I planned them out. Imagine the uber headache of writing all that in one chapter when you had writers block and no time to write. Anyways, SOLG assualt upcoming. May do that like I did the last three chapters. Actually, I'll be doing a chapter called SOLG stories, inspired by a video I found on youtube of various unknown characters that 'were affected/saw' the solg. It would be good to get various points of view from others not in related to stopping the freak satellite. If you can figure out the video and tell what the english title is, you win!

So what did you think of the last two/three chapters as a whole or individually? Comments? Concerns? Tell me!

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