Chapter 1. Ghost of the past.
"Ghost! Ghost, wake up!" a voice yelled in Ghost's face. His head shot up off his pillow and his blanket fell off his upper body. Beside him was a girl who had black hair and blueish eyes barely visible in the darkness of the room.
"W-What?" Ghost's heart was racing, his face dripping with sweat. Fear from memories that he wished he never had.
"Are you okay?" the woman asked, looking deep into Ghost's eyes.
"Yeah, yeah I'm okay Mist," Ghost said, straightening his posture. Mist sat on the creaky bed frame. "Same nightmare" Ghost looked into Mist's eyes.
"It's been getting really bad, this is the 3rd night in a row" Mist put her hand on Ghost's. He pretended not to notice.
"I know," Ghost said quietly.
"You know Ghost it's getting tiresome not knowing your real name" Mist said softly.
"Well that's a personal thing" Ghost looked at his watch. It was 5:30am "I'm going to get some chow" Ghost shut down Mist's question.
"When are you going to start trusting me darling?" Mist said tauntingly.
"You're cute," Ghost said, grabbing a shirt.
"Ive been assigned to you for 17 months yet and you still won't even tell me your name.
"I dont want to get attached, worlds in a bucket of shit right now and if Yuktobania dosnt pump the brakes then we could find ourselves in a war" Ghost said.
"You dont have to dig it alone sweetheart, that's the joys of being a part of a team" Mist finished, walking out of the room. Ghost opened his mouth to say something worried that he had insulted her. He closed the door. He truly didn't mean to insult her. He didn't want to push her farther away.
"Goddamnit" Ghost swore to himself. He put his boots and shirt on and walked out the door and towards the mess hall. There was long hallway that separated the Barracks from the mess hall. Ghost walked down the hallway down towards it. He heard the large TV playing the news. The female Osean broadcaster was doing the usual weather and local news. Another squadron leader was there aswell. He had his wingman with him; they were both around the same height and appeared to be making conversation.
"Hey Ghost come on over" The squadron leader offered. His Call Sign was Predator and he led a squadron called hunter squadron.
"Predator your up early" Ghost began taking a seat.
"News kept me awake, Yuktobania finaly took Emmeria '' Predator said. Suddenly the new screen changed. "Breaking news" the screen read. Ghost stared at the headline it read. "War '' One word that carried more wieght than a battleship. Suddenly air raid sirens began blairing and large earthquake-like explosions rocked the earth. Ghost sprinted towards the exit he barged through the door and looked up. TU 160 bombers were floating over the airbase.
"Were being Bombed!" He yelled to Predator and his wingman. They both sprung up and ran out the door. The three sprinted out towards the hanger where Ghosts Gripen E sat. Mist was already climbing into her Gripen. Ghost wasted no time either as he scrambled up into the cockpit.
"This is AWACS Guard dog is anyone on coms!" A frantic voice sounded through the radio of Ghost's Jet.
"I hear you, Guard dog, what's the call?" Ghost asked as he powered on his engine.
"I dont know but I think the 3rd continental war Just started!" Guard dog responed. Ghost taxied to the tarmac his hands shakey his face dripping with sweat. He put on his oxygen mask and pinned the throttle his plane lurched forwards and off the runway. He rapidly climbed up.
"Phatom 1 in the air" Ghost reported as Mist slid into formation with him.
"They're targeting civilian centers. Who are these guys?" Mist asked angrily.
"That dosnt matter its time to go say hello" Ghost zoom climbed all the way up to a formation of the bombers and slipped behind them he squeezed the trigger of his control stick. The 27mm cannon on his plane sprayed tracers at at the bombers he struck one down and launched a missle at an other. He pulled up alongside one. He saw it then the Yuktobanian flag it was painted elegantly on the tail.
"What do you see?" Mist asked.
"See? It's the goddamn Yuktobanian air force" Ghost said as his missle warning system lit up. He banked a hard right trying to evade the missile. He turned hard and the missle flew past him.
"I got him in my sights, Rinkgo 2 take the other one" An unknown voice said.
"Roger" Another voice responded. Ghost looked behind him, an SU35 stayed glued to his tail. This too had Yuktobanian markings.
"Ghost I see escorts looks like 3 of them," Guard dog reported. Ghost felt his weight increase with each second of the turn. He couldn't keep this up. He eased back on his throttle and turned a hard right then left then right again and left one final time. The SU35 shot past, Ghost latched on firing 2 missles each one streaked forwards and hit the Yuktobanian plane deystroying it.
"Scratch one bandit!" Ghost said as he banked a hard right to try and find Mist. She was juggling the remaining 2 escorts. "Wow for somebody who has never fought before she's handling herself fairly well" Ghost thought to himself. He latched onto one of the raiding escorts and shot him down flawlessly watching the carcass of the plane streak down towards the surface. The plane impacted the ground and it smashed into a house.
"Guard dog are first responders down there?" Ghost asked frantically.
"Stand by" Guard dog responded swiftly.
"Damn it!" Ghost said he looked at his radar. 3 more bombers and an escort fighter for each bomber.
"Sorry we're late Ghost we'll make it up to you" The voice of Predator came through the coms he brought the rest of the squadron with him.
"Better late the never brother lets make the cash flow" Ghost responded and began to change his course right as Mist killed the final escort.
"Ghost your one off ace there buddy" Guard dog responed. Ghost paid no attention to this; he was still shaky as hell. 5 more radar contacts came onto the radar screen.
"Oh that's nothing i'm almost a triple ace" Predator responded.
"Oh quit bragging we arnt doing bad for our first fight" Mist shut the bragging down. Ghost smiled and attempted to stop. He joined the Hunter squadron's formation. The sleek and elegant design of the SU30M2s that they flew complemented each other. They broke off and began to assault the remaining bombers. Ghost couldn't bear to watch as each One he shot down streaked down towards the town below. Fires were spreading rampantly as the first responders. After the final Yuktobanian bomber was down Ghost and Mist followed it down and Circled the town as it burned.
"Look at them all Mist most of them wernt even up for school yet" Ghost stated.
"Yuktobania is gonna pay for this!" Mist stated furiously. The small Erusean town was heavily damaged even though they were Oseans here on an IUN deyploment there was no reason they couldn't feel any sympathy for them.
"Well make them pay Misty well make them pay" Ghost said.
"Preadator this Is HQ was he here?" a voice suddenly asked.
"Be more specific Feral, Trigger?" Which one?" Predator asked the voice.
"Him, You know who I'm talking about '' the voice said again. Ghost could hear the Reaction as Predtor realized who HQ was talking about.
"I thought Mihaly Killed him…" Predator said flatley.
"Report to debrief… we have alot to discuss." The connection ended. Predator sighed.
"Who is HE?" Ghost asked and began to fly towards the airstrip to land.