Episode 4- Mission One

After a while of reviewing the map Bob stood up and said, "First things first, we will need to appoint a leader. Anybody wants to run against me." The room fell silent. "Alright then all in favor of me, Bob Walters, of being leader?" The rest of the team raised their hands. "Okay majority rules. Lets move to the hangar."

The other three stood up and they all walked out of the Briefing Room. While walking Sam asked the other two guys, "So what's your story?"

They both said in unison, "We just got here from the Academy."

One said, "My name is Cory McGee."
The other said, "And I'm Clay McGee."

"I never saw you two at the academy? What are your specializations?" Sam asked."

They said in unison, "We are heavy weapon specialists."

"Well that explains it, they were in a different part of the complex." Bob opened the door to the hangar and we all stepped inside a large open space of a room. Bob walked over to a Lieutenant and gave a salute, after a couple of minutes of talking Bob returned and told us to follow him. He showed us to five FF-S3 Saberfish fighters. It didn't matter which we got in so it was a free for all who got which one. Sam jumped into the cockpit of his Saberfish and activated the fighter. After a couple of seconds of rebooting, Sam switched his com-link to a switch that read All Federation Soldiers. The other four members faces appeared on a small screen.

Bob gave a shot out, "All ready?"
"All set!" "Lets get a move on!" "Buckle up!" "Ready!"
"All right then lets head for the exit." Bob ordered.

Sam activated hover mode and followed Bob through a tunnel out of the base. Then, he ignited the main thrusters and set them to medium output.

"Set the coordinates to 0054-3221." Bob said.

Sam pushed the coordinates in and a small blinking dot appeared on a map placed at the right of the cockpit.

"Lets pick up the pace."

All five of them set main thruster output to high. Sam looked at the world below him. "Mission one underway." While heading towards the coordinates there was a long pause of silence. When they reached the factory Bob opened a com-link to it.

"This is Bob Walters of Team 12 of the Burrow. We are ready to escort the cargo trucks."

"Copy that team 12 we are sending them out."

A large door opened up revealing five very large trucks. "Geez those things are huge!" The trucks began heading towards the Burrow while the FF- S3's were circling above.

The Saberfish had to decrease their thruster outputs a lot to match the speed of the trucks making it a much longer journey then before. After over a half hour of silence and the twins doing Blue Angel tricks, Bob said over the COM, "We are getting closer to the Zeon outpost, check your radar for enemy incoming fighters.

Another good ten minutes passed and nothing appeared on the radar and Bill sighed, "Well I guess nothing coming."

"Hold that thought. We got five enemy Gattle units approaching! All fighters prepare for battle. The twins will flank right and Sam and Bill will flank left. I will come through the middle to provide confusion. ALL READY!"

"Yes Sir!" Sam and Bill jolted right and they were prepared to attack when they heard on the COM, "Die Zeon!" they could see Bob in the distance firing off his entire arsenal. The attack destroyed one unit shredding through the armor of the fighter and causing a major explosion. The other four split apart heading in the directions of the twins and Sam with Bill. "I can't believe there falling for it!" Bob smiled.

Sam rushed towards the Gattle barely dodging its machineguns. Sam released the tri-missiles and dodged the Gattle's kamikaze attack. He turned to see if his hit had an effect and saw that the missiles destroyed the Gattle's right side thrusters making it fly on one side. "Too easy." He said and charged back at the Gattle and ended its miseries with his 25mm machineguns. The bullets tearing through the Gattle's armor, it caught on fire and made a downward spiral to Earth, which ended in a large explosion. "Alright kill numero uno."

He checked around him to see how his team was doing. Bill already disposed his Gattle and Bob was all right. The twins however still fighting one last Gattle. Cory charged the front of the Gattle and Clay came from the back, after they both launched a couple of missiles they both pulled up on the controls of the FF-S3's. They came so close to each other that the bellies of the fighters nearly touched and below them the Gattle exploded.
"Well that's all of them. We wandered pretty far. Lets meet back up with the trucks." Bob said calmly.

Sam was excited about his first kill and was doing loops and corkscrews on his Saberfish. But the celebration didn't last very long when he saw what looked like a large human hacking away at one of the trucks. Finally, the trucks armor gave away and made a loud explosion.

Bob yelled, "What is that thing?" What we know as a single MS-05A Zaku 1 with a heat hawk they did not know of. "We better take this thing down before it destroys another truck."

The Zaku 1 pulled out its 105mm machinegun and began to blast away blindly. "Must be an amateur pilot." Noticing their advantage over the Zaku, the team split up and attacked from all sides. The Zaku still blindly shooting took four tri-missiles and a load of machinegun rounds before going down.

After checking the radar and seeing nothing for miles after miles Bob said, "The enemy's been taken care of. Well done team."

A loud cheer came over the COM from all the pilots as they made their way home with four trucks left. "Mission One complete. We might be alive if it wasn't for the fact that the pilot didn't know what he was doing. Time to go home."
The story started slow but I promise I will pick up the pace, if it is worth it. Send me a review or two on how to fix this story or to give up and try something else in life. Like jump rope.