Advance Wars: The Devestating Army An Advance Wars (DUH!) Fanfic by Zelloss To be published only on www.fanfiction.net

Author's Note: More info on COs... ^^ You can still e-mail me, although there is no longer the Silver Rose position open, there is still at least 2 positions in each other army, including Black Hole. Oh, please include a Unique Unit... ^^ Every commander in this story has one, as you'll see, the Unique Units are one-CO-only weapons! And I know the chapters are getting shorter, bit by bit, but each Mission is just that, a mission.

Mission 3 - Airborne Escape, Split-up!

A fleet of fighters shot out the back of The Bullet.

"Everything okay?" the voice came over the radioset. Nell's.

"Yes, just fine..." Andy smiled towards the radioset. "How long will it take to get back to our homes in these things?"

"Let's see..." Nell paused. "Approximately half an hour for our troops..."

"And us?" Amethyst asked.

"Well, that's about... the same" Nell responded.

"And?" Olaf asked, adding a hint of a question.

"Same" Nell shrugged.

"And for me, I guess it's the same?" Eagle asked.

"Well, actually, it's an hour..." Nell responded.

"Of course..." Eagle sighed. "But I've flown for days in these things... This is nothing..."

"Well, if that's all settled, it's time for us to split up..." Nell called out.

"Oh? Is that what you think?"

A rugged voice shot over the radio.

"Enemy Fighters spotted on radar..." Ryuu's voice called out. "Anybody got visual?"

"You have RADAR?" Max cried out, surprised.

"Oh, I forgot you guys are flying regular fighters..." Ryuu sighed. "Either way, do you guys have visual?"

"Yeah," Sami countered. "There's about one to each of us..."

"Gotch'ya..." Ryuu nodded. "My figures exactly..."

"Well, well, well, what do we have here?"

The viewscreen on the sides of each of the Fighters lit up, showing a man wearing pure black fighter's goggles, with gelled-back dark purple hair, and a glint of menace under the lenses of the goggles.

"A bunch of kids playing as pilots?" the man grinned.

"What are you talking about, kids?" Sensei demanded.

"Ah, the infamous Sensei... And... Eagle, is it not? Two legends, it will be a shame to have to shoot you down..." the man smiled.

"Who are you?" Max demanded.

"My name is Gairyio, I'm the king of the Skies and the Sea! And out here, it's an infinite stretch of both..." Gairyio laughed. "So this is my kingdom, and what I say in my kingdom goes..."

"And I say, you die here!"

A sudden barage of machinegun fire shot from the Fighters in the air. Everybody swerved off, seperating into two or three groups.

"Machineguns, on a fighter... Those are made for Ground troops..." Nell muttered. "A Fighter that serves as a soldier killer..."

"Do you like them?" Gairyio laughed. "Air-to-Ground Fighter Planes... Ingenious, they can serve any purpose I need!"

"Well, now what?" Andy cried out. "I need a location on the Ruby River Island..."

"Oh? No you don't..." Gairyio smiled a bit.

The radar maps on each Fighter crackled and stopped working.

"Disruptors..." Sami gasped.

"Dead on, girlie! Mabye if you survive, you'll do well in my army, or with me..." Gairyio licked his lips.

"In your dreams!" Sami shouted, taking aim at one of the fighters and opening fire with missles.

"Let's show them, Sami..." Eagle dived, rose sharply, and as he tilted back down, aimed a barrage of missles in only a few seconds.

"Yeah!" Andy grinned, opening fire proudly at random, as was his skill.

"Err... Which button is fire?" Kanbei asked.

"A!" Nell cried out.

"A?" Kanbei blinked. "Err..."

"The one on the far right side of the GBA..." Nell tried to explain.

"GBA?" Kanbei's eyes spun. "Stop talking gibberish!"

"Oh, nevermind!" Nell whined.

After the allies initial barrage, the skies were cleared.

"Did we... get them?" Andy asked.

"No, I didn't see a single one go down..." Amethyst responded. "Watch your back..."

"That's it!" Sonja dived, pulling and turning herself around.

"EEP!"

Sonja dived forward, as a barrage of shots tore past her. "Dive, dive, dive!"

Everybody shot down.

One engine exploded.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!"

"Andy!" Nell shouted.

"Andy!" Sami shouted.

Andy's fighter zoomed towards a small island, covered in forest.