From Husky Squadron: The Dogs of War
Francine glanced out at the oncoming fighter. It was bearing down far too swiftly for her to offload her bombs into the carrier and escape unscathed.
Of course, this also meant that it was traveling too fast to evade, should she decide to engage with a close-range attack. She turned into her opponent's line of fire, then up suddenly. A quick boost and thrust vectoring brought her onto her opponent's tail, but he had already spun away, down and below Francine's line of sight.
Her holographic display tracked the other fighter being almost directly below her and moving onto her tail, so she followed, turning down to try and get onto his tail.
His turn, however, was a lot tighter than she had expected. Francine belatedly realized that he had left his throttle at low power, and was not interested in getting onto her tail at all. Her move had brought her ship in line with his guns and while both ships were facing each other, Francine was aiming far too low of the mark and couldn't hope to pull up for a shot in time.
She accelerated downwards, but not in time. His lasers struck aft of the cockpit, blowing out one of her engines.
"I'm hit!" She cried. A quick roll to the right helped her evade some more shots, but now her chances of winning the battle were slim. By accelerating downwards, she may have evaded some of her opponent's firepower, but she had effectively put him on her tail by doing that, and with one engine gone, she knew she had no hope of losing him, having now seen his skill.
More laser bolts stabbed into all parts of her ship, effectively reducing it to a molten blob, before it exploded.
"Simulation terminated." Bill's voice said over her headsets. "That was a good fight, but he was all over you, Fran. Looks like you lost the bet- Oh wait…" There was a pause. "Har har. Now as the winner he wants to buy you a round. Get on out here."
Fran blinked in surprise. It wasn't Bill I was up against? But whoever it was, he was pretty good. Fox McCloud is still missing, and Old Ken wouldn't have his skills THAT polished, Sticks and Perry are still on leave, so who..?