Disclaimer: I don't not own Ace Combat

September 3rd 1999
Fenrir Air Base
09:00am

Captain Alexa Skye known to her colleagues as Freyja walked out of the building out onto the flight line where she could see a hive of activity.

A Nordennavic Royal Air Force G-1159 Gulfstream 3 VIP jet was parked up with a squadron of J35J Drakens nearby as she walked towards a light-blue and grey F-5AG Freedom Fighter which had two AIM-9M Sidewinder, AIM-120C AMRAAM and Mark 82 LDGP munitions on its hardpoints with a single external fuel tank.

She quickly climbed into her Freedom Fighter firing up its pair of J85-13 Turbojets and made her way to the runway passing by a Hercules or 2 along the way.

"Fenrir tower this is Freyja I'm ready for take-off." she said getting the fighter ready.

The tower controller came over the frequency. "Frejya you're cleared to go, enjoy the flight." The Freedom Fighter's J85-13 Turbojets roared as they powered up but Freyja held the fighter on the runway then pulled backed taking the F-5 into a near vertical climb.

It was quiet half hour flight to the training area when a familiar voice broke in over her radio. "Freyja you must be there by now?"

Freyja knew the voice well, it was General Steve Rasmussen who despite being a tough general cared about the people who served under him.

"So general what am I to do today." Alexa asked wanting to know why she'd been sent up.

"Pay Attention Pilot! This is your final test before Grendel Squadron becomes operational. Pass it to prove that you are indeed worthy of becoming Grendel 1." General Rasmussen responded as her HUD updated.

Two red with silver B47G Sioux helicopters hovered at 500 feet as Alexa spotted them. "I see the Siouxs."

"Very well, let's get down to business. I sent some drones that to you must shoot down with guns, shoot down those drones." The general responded as Alexa watched them turning and climbing.

She punched off her external fuel tank and dove on the first Sioux firing a burst of 20mm cannon rounds from her M39A2 Revolver Cannons which obliterated the tail rotor.

The first Sioux helicopter quickly spiralled and crashed into the sea as Alexa brought her jet into a climb bringing it around onto the second firing another cannon burst sending the helicopter down into the sea.

She levelled off as General Rasmussen came back. "Now let's try your new air to air missiles, we've prepared an old Super Sabre target, once you get it in range, let'em have it."

"Roger General." she replied as a lone silver QF-100D Super Sabre target UAVs.

She switched to her AMRAAMs and got a good tone, she pressed her button and a AMRAAM left the jet streaking towards the Super Sabre sending it down towards the water in flames as another Super Sabre flew over her canopy, she rolled the jet onto her the Super Sabre tail selecting her other AMRAAM and opened fire.

The missile destroyed the Super Sabre which burned up. Alexa picked up a hand mic. "Well General the Super Sabres have been slain."

"Marvellous! Now you will go into a ground-attack operation. You will see two decommissioned ships, destroy them." General Rasmussen said as two Mode class Destroyers still armed with her original dual-purpose naval guns and its aa battery of three 105mm Bofors, two 40mm Bofors and 20mm Bofors Anti-Air guns.

Alexa switched to her unguided bombs and did a flyby looking over the old vessels then pulled her jet around into a bomb run dropping her first unguided bomb into the first destroyer which punched through the lightly armoured deck exploding in a magazine, the ship rolled over and began to sink as the second ship unexpectedly opened fire on the Freedom fighter.

Alexa calmly weaved her way around the gunfire aiming for where the ammo room on the ship was and dropped her other unguided bomb which smashed into the magazine room, the resulting explosion blew the rear part of the stern off. She climbed away as the ships would take a while to sink. "General all targets have been destroyed."

"Good Work Pilot! You are now officially Grendel 1 congrat…." General Rasmussen began but went silent briefly then came back. "….What…Alert! Unidentified helicopters have entered Nordennavic Airspace, our comms are jammed so we're scrambling two Freedom fighters to assist you Grendel 1."

Alexa craned her head looking for the helicopters seeing them at low level as two desert grey AH-64A Apaches appeared and opened fire with stinger missiles but Alexa deployed countermeasures and switched to missiles. She locked onto the right Apache putting a missile into which smashed into a snow covered rock breaking into pieces as the second Apache tried to run but Alexa easily put her other missile into it.

"Impressive. You are ready to serve our king and country." Rasmussen said as Alexa say blips on her HUD.

Two more Freedom fighters arrived forming up with Alexa, she looked at them seeing the fighter on the left was Thor and the fighter on the right was Loki. "Grendel 1 we are your wingmen, Loki is Grendel 3 and Thor is your number 2."

Alexa recognised the voice. "Sam, is this that you?"

"Yeah Alexa it is and you must know the other guy." Sam responded as Loki waved at her.

"Chris no way you two, I haven't seen either of you since flight school, how have you been?" Alexa asked him.

"We've been well now come on boss let's get home." Chris said as the three Freedom fighters turned towards the base.

Fenrir Air Base
11:30am

The three Freedom Fighters touched down at the air base and parked up on the ramp, the three opened their canopies and climbed out of the jets, Alexa joined her squadmates. Both men had black skin and were muscular and little buff although a little taller than her.

She called out to them. "Hey Sam, Chris, you guys remember the night we shared after graduation?"

"Of course we do, that was a good night." Sam responded as they hugged.

"What you want another?" Chris asked as Alexa grinned cheekily.

"Maybe." she replied.

In the air base hanger

Alexa, Sam and Chris walked into the hanger seeing three silver F-16A Block 20 Fighting Falcon with the initials F.R and their names. "So a real leap, hey boys how about after lunch we have flight in these?" Alexa suggested.

"I like that." Sam responded as General Rasmussen watched from a distance, he knew they were fraternising but no-one did anything as it was judged to be not a problem.

Later that Night

After a training flight in the Fighting Falcons, Grendel Squadron were in the lounge watching the news on the Usean Refugee crisis. "Seriously Erusea needs to stop this mess." Sam groaned.

"Yeah Sam, I fear this might lead to war." Alexa said as they chewed on their food.

"So guys you wanna retire for the night?" Alexa said with a grin pasted on her as the boys knew what she had in mind.

They quickly arrived at their room, Alexa hustled the boys in as she closed the door behind her locking it intent to have fun all night.

A/N

So I hope you all enjoyed the 1st chapter of an attempt to make Northern Wings somewhat into the Strangereal canon so I had determine what missions of Northern Wings could fit within the Strangereal timeline and only the first 3 missions, why?

Well for starters, it's clear that missions 4,5,7 and 10 are not doable as they contradict the canon too much however missions 6, 8 and 9 could fit into the canon although I'm not sure if I'd do them as you'd need a few tweaks to the missions to make them work.

As for the Grendel jets, due to Northern Wings itself not being considered canon, the advanced jets are not canon either so instead I took a look back into what the Nordic countries probably had back in 1999 and used the combat jets they'd have and worked from there.

Oh before I forget, I've now surpassed 375K total words written now onto 400K

So once updates will be slow due to worsening technical issues with my laptop which I'm trying to get sorted but the National Covid Lockdown is making things difficult, so I'll see ya soon