CHAPTER 7: CLASH OF VALKYRIES
Clash of Valkyries
June 5th 2017, 1700 hours
Amendola Air Base, Foggia, Italy
"The time is short, so I'll keep this brief." General La Pointe said as a holographic screen that showed the world map appeared behind him in front of the briefing room. The 108th JTF members were present there with the rest of the pilots and air witches and wizards. "As you all know, this full invasion of North Africa codenamed 'Operation Flaming Arrows' has been approved by the UNCF Top Brass. Now, this is our chance to give those AWWB a lesson they won't forget for what they did to us. Of course, it'll not be an easy job."
The world map zoomed in on the Mediterranean Sea. 10 blue triangles with description '105th Joint Tactical Fighter' until '115th Joint Tactical Fighter' appeared in the south of Italy. Multiple red triangles with description 'Enemy Air Squadrons' appeared also on the shore of the Libya and Tunisia.
"From our Intel, the AWWB has 10 to 15 Sorcerers squadrons, and at least 20 normal fighter squadrons. They completely outnumbered us, but rest assured. We can win this using skills and technology advantages." Five red squares also appeared near the red triangles. "And of course, they also have AA guns and Surface-to-Air Missiles site across the shore. They also have several Infantry Regiments, some of them are mechanized. So, we to eliminate this threat, paratroopers with the VDV 11th Guards Air Assault Brigade and the 75th Ranger Regiments will be para-dropped behind enemy lines. The marines from the Joint Regimental Combat Team 2, the Task Force Cherbourg will perform large scale landing and the 5th, 6th, and 7th UNCF Fleet will lend us Anti-air support and shore bombardment."
Three larger blue triangles that look like ships appeared on the sea on the south east of Italy that labeled 5th, 6th, and 7th UNCF Fleet.
"Our missions are to assist the navy to fight the enemy air assets and warships and protect the transport aircrafts and ships."
The General took a deep breath before continued. "However, this operation will not become an easy mission since the 114th Mage Squadron also operated here. Their leader is one of the most feared aces, his name's…" A photo of a man in his early 30s appeared on the screen. The man has shaved black beard and short black hair. "…Andrei Markov. He's dangerous."
William stared directly on Markov's black eyes before nodded to him. "Before the Ulysses Disaster, he was one of the strongest wizards in Russian Air Force, but he went missing during the Bosnian War. They even awarded him the Hero of Russian Federation medal. It seems, he's now even better, eh?"
Guts chuckled and leaned on William. "But, he's still a scumbag."
A photo of a wizard in Su-35 appeared on the screen. "He's well known of the shark mouth on his striker unit…" The photo zoomed in near the front of the Su-35 which has a Shark Mouth Paint Job. "…That's why they call him Akula or Shark…"
"…or Shark Bastard." Guts murmured in audible voice.
The General glanced at the Captain. "Do you have any problem? Captain Gutierrez?"
"Err, no sir." He replied as he lowered his head.
The General turned his gaze toward the middle aged Japanese man who sat on the right of the screen. "Admiral Hasegawa?"
The said man stood from his chair. The man has tidy dark blue hair and roughly shaved beard. He wore a JMSDF NWU with JDS Akagi (CVN-185) cap and glasses. "Arigatou, La Pointe-Shosho." Admiral Iori Hasegawa said. He turned to the audience. "We just got information that the enemies got a ton of AA guns on the North African coast, so aerial insertion is impossible. And to eliminate this threat Submarines with Dry Dock Shelter will launch a combined SOW teams to sabotage those AAs. Captain Isaac Brandon will lead them. Can you do that, Lieutenant?" He asked.
"Yes sir! We've done the same job for countless times." The Red haired SAS wizard, Captain Isaac Brandon said.
"After that, the Rangers, VDVs, and armors will be dropped along the coast and launch the main attacks. The Air Wizards and Witches will fought the enemy fighters and protect the C-17 Globemasters until they dropped all of the Paratroopers." The Admiral nodded to the General.
Pierre stood from his seat and stood in front of the screen. "This operation is the most important in this war. It's just like the D-day. If the operation succeeded, there'll be a possibility that we can win this war. So, please be careful out there! Bonne Chance!"
All of the audience stood from their seat and left the room.
Several minutes later, William with his squadron mate walked to the hangar while held their advanced visor. The visor has communication device and auto Lock-on system, so the sorcerer just need to say 'Fox' and imagining it to fire missile without pressing anything.
Alexi tapped Will on his shoulder and gave him a thumb up before walked to his striker unit. Will watched all of the wizards and witches jumped to their striker. He then gazed back at the mechanic who fixed his F-22A Raptor striker gave him a thumb up before left.
He then closed his eyes and began to chant his pray. "Our Father in Heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on Earth, as it is in Heaven. Give us this day…" He then placed his index finger on his forehead and then his chests. "Alright!" The Commander removed his combat boots before jumped to his striker and called his familiar, a Scottish fold.
He wore his visor and activated the HUD on it. Some seconds later, his Jet Striker's engine roared and began to spew magic circles from its exhaust. He then tapped the button on his right and presented his main weapon of choice: M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle, outfitted with TA01NSN 4x32 ACOG. After he secured his rifle, he checked his comms. "All team, maintain radio check!"
"This is Warwolf 2, loud and clear!" Jose said.
"Warwolf 3, Clear!" Alexi replied.
"4, clear!" Sergei replied emotionlessly.
"Warwolf 5, ready for action!" Fakhrul exclaimed.
"This is Warwolf 6, all clear, sir!" Writhe replied.
"This is Warwolf 7, ready to kick some ass!" Rina exclaimed happily.
"Roger that!" Wilbert nodded. He then heard Guts contacted Sergei.
"Warwolf 4, this is Warwolf 2! Errr, can you play music in the radio? I need something to refresh my head!"
"Da," Then, a 90s rock music (Voodoo Chile by Stevie Ray Vaughan) rang through the radio.
"Haha, very nice!" Guts replied. They then taxed to the airstrip. The airstrip was full of strikers and aircrafts because this operation was a large scale air raid operation.
"Warwolf flight, this is Control Tower! You're cleared to take off!"
"This is Warwolf leader, roger that!" William replied. He and his squadron stopped on the end of the airstrip. "Warwolves! Launch"
Their Jet Striker's exhaust roared louder and began to push their striker forward. Their strikers left the ground some seconds later.
Will kept activating the afterburner, flying even higher. "Warwolf 1, altitude restriction canceled! Continue your mission, good luck!
June 5th 2017, 1900 hours
Mediterranean Sea
In the evening sky of Mediterranean Sea, many witches and wizards were flying across the sky. They were the witches and wizards of the Joint Tactical Fighters, the multinational air squadrons that commissioned by the UNCF Air Forces.
One of the wizards, the one with a US Navy Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet striker and FN Minimi flew above the 5th UNCF flagship, the JDS Akagi, with his squadron. There was also a patch of a red dragon from Chinese mythology which its body was coiling around a witch's broom and breathed a fire to the sky. Just like Warwolf's patch, there were word '105th Joint Tactical Fighter' above and 'Wardragon' below the patch.
The wizard was Commander John 'Angel' Rorke, one of the US Navy Top ace. He has a brown slightly long hair with artificial right eye that has 'Magic Eyes' Abilities. He watched the UAV feed of the destruction of the AA sites by the Special Operation Wizard. Those boys really knew how to blow shit up.
After watching the feed, the Commander kept scanning the almost dark sky while eaves dropped his friend's chat.
"It's true, Zack! The PSG has been stronger now! So, don't get surprised if they won against Barca!" The French witch with Dassault Rafale M striker, Ensign Charlotte Dunois replied with a huff. She has a blond hair that tied into a tidy ponytail and purple eyes.
"Meh, after we are back to Akagi, let's play PES again! But this time, we'll play with bet!" The Malaysian wizard with McDonnell Douglas F/A-18D Hornet, 1st Lieutenant Wan Zack Sabri stated. He has brown eyes and black hair. Both of them talked through the coms since the jet machine's roar is really loud.
"Okay then, I accepts your challenge! What are we betting on?" Charlotte asked.
Zack smirked and flew closer to the French girl. "If you win, I'll buy you everything you want! But if you lose…" The Malaysian boy leaned his mouth to Charlotte's ear and whispered. "…You must pay me with your body!"
"Ehhh?!" The girl yelped as her cheeks turned pink. "You dummy!"
Zack only laughed before his head being hit by a pair of GSh-30-1. "Aduh! What for, Hak? You know I'm just kidding, right?"
"We're still in a mission, dude! You can continue teasing your girlfriend after we back!" The Chinese wizard who hit Zack, Lieutenant Son Hak said sternly. He has black hair, black eyes, and used the PLAN's Shenyang J-11A striker. He crossed his arms. "If Fakhrul know about this, he'll be using you as a riot shield in this operation."
Zack sighed when he recalled the time when his former Commander dragged him to the sky without a striker after he being caught peeking Charlotte when she took a shower.
John kept his stern face and stared forward. Then, another American wizard with USMC Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II striker flew closer to him. The wizard has hazel eyes and brown hair. He also has night witch's antenna "What's the matter, Commander? Forget to poop before flying?" Lieutenant Commander Lex Phantom asked jokingly.
"Nothing, just waiting for-"
His words cut off by someone who yelled at Hak. "Damn you, Hak!" A witch with Mitsubishi F/A-18EJ Super Hornet striker (JMSDF's variant of Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet) passed behind John as she chased after Hak. She has short red hair and purple eyes.
"Hey, hey, maybe if I'm not using comm system, I can't hear you both. And you both almost made me fucking deaf. So, change to a secure frequency please," The Commander said in stern tone.
"You hear the Commander, Hime? Change to secure channel seven, I just got a brainstorm." Hak said, still in his teasing manner.
"Okay! And stop calling my nickname, baka!" Lieutenant Yona 'Hime' Takenaka.
Lex only give the 'couple' a shit eating grin. Suddenly, his antenna turned from green to red. "Contacts!" He shouted.
All of the witches and wizards stopped their 'activities' and returned to formation. "Oh, what?!" Zack exclaimed.
"To all friendly units, this is Captain Umezu of the JS Hiryu! We've spotted the enemy airborne contacts! Bearing 2-0-2, over?" The Captain of one of the Soryu-class submarines said.
"This is Wardragon 1! Acknowledge! We're ready to engage the enemy aircrafts! Over and out!" John replied. He then contacted his squads. "Listen up! One of our subs detected multiple enemy air contacts! Keep your guards up! Expect hostile at any time!"
"Roger that!" all of them said in unison.
Sometimes later, Lex saw multiple enemy air contacts on his HUD. "Here they come!"
John kept his stoic face and readied his Minimi. "Let's give them hell! FOX THREE!" Later, the striker released four AIM-120 AMRAAM from the left and right side. The missiles launched itself to the target along with the other personnel's Air-to-Air missiles.
(BGM: Ace Combat Assault Horizon OST: Dogfight)
30 minutes later, the sun has been set and the heavy rain and hurricane inflicted the sea, made the battle became more risky. But the air and naval combats are still continued. Even now, the AWWB Air Forces got the upper hand even though the UNCF Air Forces has been aided by the Navy. The sound of the thunders and explosion blared very loud in the area. This fiercest modern air and naval battle will be remembered as the 'Battle of Mediterranean Sea'.
"This is AWACS Golden Eye! Be advice, 40% of the UNCF air assets has been shut down!" The AWACS said.
"Damn it, there's too many of them!" A witch with American accent yelled.
"Where the bloody hell is the reinforcement?!" Another wizard with British accent shouted.
Not far from there, the Warwolves came from high altitude. "Let's dive to the fireworks!" Joshua exclaimed as the Warwolves dived from above the cloud.
Wilbert picked two enemy wizards with MiG-29 Fulcrum striker on his HUD. "Warwolf 1 to all Warwolf flight! You're cleared to engage!"
"Yes sir!"
The Colonel locked one of them. "Lock on target! Fox two!" He fired an AIM-9 Sidewinder. The wizards turned around and saw the missile flying toward him. But he was unable to evade and the missile hit his striker. However, he was able to bail out. The other wizard surprised and fired his GSh-60-1 at the colonel. Wilbert managed to evade the 30mm and scored a headshot with his IAR. "Target is down!"
In the other side, Fakhrul fired his M4A1 at a witch with Dassault Mirage F-1 striker who flew only a few meters above the sea surface. Most of his fire didn't hit the target. He gritted his teeth and locked the witch. After that, he launched one of his R-73 short range missiles. "Fox two!"
But the witch pumped out her flares to distract the missile. The flares were just like normal flares but the color was blue with a pentagon like witches shield. He fired his R-73 again but the target evaded it again. The Malaysian wizards gritted his teeth again and flew lower and closer to the witches. It was rather risky because of the big wave and unstable wind that could cause him to hit the sea, but he didn't have another choice. He once again locked the witch and shouted.
"Matilah kau!(You'll die!)" The missile once again launched from his striker and chased the witch. He then saw a big fireball and explosion from where the witch is. It was followed by something splashed on the water. The major grinned in satisfied. "Target is history!"
Rina was surveyed the situation from above. She watched an Oliver Perry-class frigate was pounded hard by two Koni-class frigates. She then chose the Kh-35 missiles from her prototype striker, MXASU-3 Finias's 'Alternate Dimension Sub-storage System' through the advanced HUD. She flew to the Libyan frigates which were stolen by the AWWB. Both the frigates greeted her by firing their 9M33M3 SAM at her, but she evaded it by breaking sharply to the left.
Then she did another sharp maneuver to the left that hard to do by conventional pilot, but easy for witches since their magic can protect them from the G-force. She then locked the ship on her right. "Fox three!" She launched two Kh-35s to one of the frigates. One of them hit the SA-N-4 SAM launcher while the other one hit the starboard that critically damaged the ship and the ship began to sink.
The other Koni-class tracked the young witch on radar. But a barrage of 4 AGM-65 Maverick missiles hit the ship and destroyed it into pieces.
"Don't you go all happy trigger, Lieutenant!" Writhe shouted at her. Rina watched the German witch flying above her. She only grinned and climbed to the sky.
"That's the reinforcement! The Warlwolf is the reinforcement!" One of the sailors aboard the Oliver Perry-class frigate's bridge yelled before waving his hands.
Meanwhile, on the bridge of the JS Akagi, Admiral Hasegawa was monitoring the combat with his binocular. "Those kids, they're really strong right, Teitoku?" One of the officers said.
"Yes, they're. If they're not, we've wiped out by those damn AWWB," The Admiral said. He took his eyes out from the binocular. "I'm really happy that both my children had become witch and wizard."
The officer surprised when Iori mentioned about his children. "Your children, sir?"
"Hai, they're in the Kirishima." He replied sternly.
The officer remembered that the JDS Kirishima was currently MIA along with the USS Curtis Wilbur and the KRI John Lie. Their SAR mission has been stopped because they don't found anything on the last time where they lost the destroyer's contact. "I'm sorry to hear that." He lowered his head.
The Admiral chuckled. "Who said they're KIA? I believe they are, or at least one of them is still alive." He then stared at the rainy sky. "Wherever they are, I'll always pray for their safety."
Meanwhile, on the sky above the clouds, Alexi and Sergei flew across the rainy sky. They both flew in High-Altitude, so the enemy won't notice them. Both had antenna on their heads because they are night wizards. Sergei was busy hacking the enemy's transmission while Alexi flew in front of Sergei to protect him if they were being attacked.
"30% of our air assets are down! How the hell is this can be happening?!" One of the AWWB pilots shouted.
"Send more aircrafts! Or we'll be annihilated!" An enemy wizard shouted.
"That guy, the 'Werewolf of Florida' is here! Be careful!" An enemy pilot warned his squad. Alexi smirked after the enemy pilot said Will's nickname, 'Werewolf of Florida' which he achieved after the Battle of Miami which he scored most of the kills, including an unknown bogey which shoot lasers.
Suddenly, Sergei antenna turned red and he began to spoke. "I got a visual on the enemy cruiser!" He spoke emotionlessly.
"Where is it?"
"There." He pointed at a Slava-class cruiser that sailed in maximum speed toward the battle zone. The cruiser fired their missiles at a Type 45-class destroyer which still busy dealing with the enemy witches. Even though the British destroyer were Naval Striker, their shields has been weakened by the enemy witches continued attack. So, they couldn't dodge the Slava-class's P-500 Bazalt missiles.
"Blyat!" Alexi gritted his teeth.
"Let's destroy them and save more of our sailor's life." Sergei said calmly.
"Что? You can't be serious!" Alexi exclaimed again. But his brother didn't say anything and activated his afterburner. "So, you're not." He chuckled and ordered his wingman. "Alright Sergei. Your PAK-FA is a stealth striker, so they won't detected you if you get closer. I want you to cover my six while I blow them off, understood?"
"Da, Brat," Sergei replied. Both of them descended to below the clouds.
Alexi descended until he reached a few meters above the sea surface while Sergei provided him a cover from High-Altitude. He then locked all of the SAM launchers on radar. He screamed "Fox Three!" and launched 4 Kh-35 Air-to-Surface missiles.
The CIWS unable to destroy the missiles and they hit all of the targets which caused a big explosion on the ship. Alexi continued his attack by firing his AK-12 Assault Rifle at the AK-130 dual purpose gun. It made the gun out of commission. He then climbed up to the sky to avoid the CIWS fire. Once again, he dived toward the ship and locked its hull. He then launched two Kh-38 missiles and it hit the Hull that sliced the ship into half.
"Hahaha! That's for Mother Russia! Suka Blyat!" But then his missile alarm blared on his HUD. He then starred to his back and saw two AIM-9 Sidewinders flew straight toward him. "Chyrot!" He exclaimed loudly before did an evasive maneuver and pumped out chaffs to evade the missiles.
After the warhead got confused after hit the flares, He stared at his back and saw two witches with F-16C Fighting Falcon striker chased after him. Both the witches fired their GAU-17/A Minigun at the wizard. Then, one of them fired her AIM-7 Sparrow Semi-Active Radar Homing Air-to-Air missiles.
"ебать!" The Russian wizard did 'split s' maneuver to avoid the radar lock. It was successful since the F-16s agility is no match against the MiG-35.
But the witches didn't want to give up. One of them activated her afterburner and stormed toward Alexi's MiG-35 while Alexi himself was distracted by the enemy destroyers.
Just before the witch fired her AIM-120 AMRAAM, an R-77 missile launched by Sergei flew toward her from Alexi's front and hit her striker, turned its to pieces.
"Nice kill, Sergei!" Alexi praised his brother. The other witch gritted her teeth and locked both the infamous Bear and Wolf. Before she fired the missiles, a Sidewinder hit her left striker, forced her to eject.
"Don't forget to save some for us, Ivan!" A witch with Mitsubishi F/A-18EJ Super Hornet Striker flew above them flew above them.
"Heh, you must be grateful that we defend your asses, Jap!" Alexi shouted back at the witches, Lieutenant Junior Grade Misaki Kanda. She has short brown hair with 'antenna' and hazel eyes.
"Hey, you're also a Jap!" She shouted back. Alexi just chuckled at her reply.
Back to Wilbert, he busied himself by taking down the enemy aircrafts with his missiles and Gatling gun. He tailed a MiG-21 Fishbed aircraft. Even though it was an old and rusty aircraft, it still has great agility and pretty small compared to the other fighter which made hard to lock. But because Wilbert is a wizard, dogfight a conventional aircraft isn't a problem, but he must still caution because there's a possibility for the MiG to counter-maneuvered him and shut him down. Conventional aircrafts shutting down a witch isn't impossible but it's very very hard to do.
He aimed his IAR at the MiG and fired it. Most of the bullets hit the target and caused the aircraft to malfunction
Will saw the pilot tried to eject but it seems there was something happened to the ejection seat. The American wizard sped up his Striker to near his enemy's cockpit. The wizard knocked the canopy and motioned the pilot to flip. The pilot was hesitant but he (or she) did it. Wilbert then shoot the canopy and the pilot managed to bail out before the plane exploded. The pilot parachuted to the sea as he saluted at Will. The Commander just smiled.
"For God's sake, Jose! Don't do that goddamn stunt again! You lucky that time I managed to cover your ass!" Will heard Fakhrul shouts in the comms.
"Don't be like that, Q-tip! I know what I'm doing! If I'm not doing this, the transport aircrafts will not reach the Africa," Wilbert groaned after Guts called her by the nickname he gave her. She saw Guts' SCAR-H shut downs a Ka-27 helicopter before launched his missile at an Edsall-class destroyer escort.
"Guts…" Will called his wingman.
"Colonel, the enemy ships are tracking Gutierrez in radar! He's in danger!" Writhe informed her Wing Commander…
…but it was too late. "Target acquired! Here we go!"
"That idiot needs your cover, Boss!" Rina shouted at him. Wilbert only sighed.
Guts fired a JSM (Joint Strike Missile) at a Sigma-class heavy corvette before fired another two at a La Combattante III-class fast attack craft, damaged the corvette and instantly sunk the fast attack craft. "Targets sunk! Commencing another attacks!"
However, he didn't notice that five wizards tailed him from behind. "Mierde! He's on my tail!"
All of the wizards fired their missiles at the Mexican wizard. "Warwolf 2! Missiles! Break!" Alexi shouted.
Guts did evasive maneuvers while pumped out his flares to evade the missiles. He sighed in relieve. But he was shocked again after saw three other witches coming to his front while pointed their cannon at him.
To his surprise, all of the witches were shut downed by multiple AMRAAM missiles. "Bandit destroyed!" Guts heard Will's voice from the comms.
He smirked like he wasn't doing anything wrong. "What's the matter, Boss? I don't ask you to cover my butt!"
Will sighed on his wingman's act. "What do you think am I doing?"
The Captain sighed in defeat. "Okay, you won! I owe you a beer, sir!"
Then, the Wardragon members flew along side the Warwolves. "Yo, Bishop!" Will heard a familiar monotone voice.
"Rorke!" He gave the Wardragon commander a slap on his arm.
"Still in one piece, eh? Will!" Lex said as he crossed his arms.
The colonel grinned at him. "You too, Phantom!" But their reunited were interrupted by a transmission from Golden Eye.
"Warning! Enemy reinforcement is coming!"
"What? Now?!" Guts exclaimed in surprise.
Not so far from the airspace, a squadron of 8 mages came entered the operation airspace.
"Akula 1 to all Akula flight! I spotted the Warwolf squadron! Let's take down the Werewolf once and for all!" The leader of the Akula squadron, Colonel Andrei 'Shark' Markov said.
"Роджер, lead the way!" One of his subordinates said. All of the mages used either MiG-35 Fulcrum-F or Su-37 Terminator, while the colonel himself flew his most trusted Su-35 with 'Shark Mouth' paint job.
"We CANNOT abort this mission, team! Intercept them!" Golden Eye stated.
"COPY!" All of the remaining witches and wizards of the UNCF said.
Will glanced on his HUD.
Damage : 5%
M27 IAR : 2651
AIM-9 Sidewinder : 26
AIM-120 AMRAAM : 39
JDAM : 10
"Warwolf 1 here! Listen up! They may kill us if we fight them one by one, so we need to hit them at once to destroy them! Those mages maybe powerful, but they aren't immortal!"
"Roger boss!" Guts replied.
"Understood, Warwolf!" John replied in his usual flat tone.
"The enemy mages are on radar! All units! Follow Warwolf 1's leads!" The AWACS informed.
"Let's finish this!" Will stated. "I'll take care of 'Shark'! All of you protect the Warships and the Transport Aircraft and destroy the remaining enemies!"
The Joint Tactical Fighters witches and wizards were just some Nautical Miles away from the AWWB's reinforcements. The 'Werewolf' saw a mage with Su-35 striker flying straight on toward him.
"Markov!"
"Bishop!"
Both the top aces fired an air-to-air missile at each other. The missiles hit each other and exploded in the mid air, and all hell broke. Both side fired at each other. The rainy and dark air was once again filled with bullets, missiles, and chaffs within seconds. The UNCF forces did their best to take down the 'Sorcerer Killer'. The American Ticonderoga-class cruiser, USS Vicksburg fired her magic enhanced RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile which designed to penetrate mage's shield at the mages.
Rina held her MG36 tightly as she observed the battlefield. She saw two witches fired their machine gun at a mage. The mage just dodged the shots with his shield. The mage shield color was red rather than blue. The mage then retaliated by firing his rifle which killed the two witches.
Suddenly, her missile alarm went on. "Damn it!" She activated her afterburner and did an evasive maneuver. But the missile kept trailing her. She braced herself for the missile impact but she didn't feel anything after the missile exploded.
"Rina!" She opened her eyes and saw her fellow Malaysian witch flew toward her.
"Fakhrul."
Then, Fakhrul pulled Rina's katana and grabbed her shoulders. "Listen Rina! Do you remember that tactic we did during our two on two combat exercises in the boot camp?"
Rina thought for a while before replied. "You mean the 'Thach Weave'?"
Fakhrul just smiled and nodded. "Alright Rina, let's do it once again! You'll attract his attention, I'll take him out! Paham?"
Rina nodded cheerfully and flew toward an isolated mage. "Fox two! Fox two!" She launched two R-73 missiles at him. The mage quickly dodged the missiles with his red shield. "Come at me, bro!" She shouted at the mage before activated two afterburners of her Finias's Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 engines. She made some easy maneuver to avoid the mage's radar lock. "Fakhrul! Switch!" She shouted.
Fakhrul came from Rina's front with a katana. He held the Katana with both his hand as he sped toward the mage. "Taahhhh!" He shouted before used the 'Time Manipulation' magic to slow the time (For his perspective actual). The mage surprised because of the sudden attack and tried to fire his GSh-30-2 but it was too late because Fakhrul had cut his head.
Even though, many of the allied witches and wizards managed to pinned down the enemy witches, they decided to not to give up because of the Mage reinforcements. In the other hands, the allied forces managed to shut down some of the mages. "Kandq! Phantom! I need a backup!" John ordered Misaki and Lex.
"Roger!" Both of them replied.
John was in serious trouble because two mages in Su-37 Terminator striker tailed him from behind. John kept maneuvered to avoid the radar lock, but he couldn't run away because the hostile strikers were faster than his. The warning alarm blared again on his HUD which means the bandits managed to lock him. The Commander quickly decreased his speed, let the mages flew past him.
Just before the mages turned around, four AIM-9 Sidewinders flew straight toward the mages. Both of them managed to raise their shield to avoid them.
Seeing this chance, John activated the afterburner and flew toward the mages. After he was at least a meter away from the mage, he fired his dual wield Beretta M9 at their stomach before flew past them. The mages weren't able to dodge or evade the 9mm bullets which made them hold their stomach in pain. After that, He turned around and fired two AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles at them. The mages were weakened by their wounds and unable to raise their shield, caused the missiles to impact their strikers, destroying them to pieces. "Enemy mages down!"
In the other side, Will finished one of the mage life by stabbed his forehead. After he pulled back the knife, the mage's helmet fell from his head which revealing his wavy blond hair and young face which remind Will of his brother, Larry. He felt sorry for the mage because he must die in young age. But there's no time to think about that. He was in a battlefield and in order to win the battle, he must neutralized or kill the enemy no matter who they're.
The Colonel heard missile alarm blared on his HUD. He sped up his striker and pumped out the flares. After he managed to evade the missile, he stared at the source of the missile. He saw Markov flew toward him with red colored Energy Saber. "There you're, Shark!" He said before materialized his blue colored Energy Saber and flew straight toward the Russian mage.
Both the top ace charged at each other in high speed and clashed the Energy Saber at each other. Then, both of them attacked each other in incredible speed with their Energy Saber. Because of the force, both of them were sent backward for some meters before clashed again.
"TAAAHHHH!" Both of them shouted at each other as they raised their Energy Saber and charged at each other. Will's body was engulfed in blue light while Markov was engulfed in red light. They both blocked each other attack before flew backward and attacked again.
The American wizard then disengage the 'Magic Limiter' on his striker and slashed his Energy Saber which glowed brighter from below.
"Urrgghhh!" It succeeded to made Markov dizzy and drop his Energy Saber. But Markov quickly pulled his combat knife and stabbed Will's right hand.
"Arghh!" The wizard yelped in pain. He glared at the mage. "Damn you!" he raised his Energy Saber and slashed vertically at Markov. Markov caught his Energy Saber which still in the mid air and used it to block Wilbert's attack. After the impact, a shockwave erupted and blinded everyone within the area.
"Ugghh, what the fuck?!" Guts grunted as he covered his face from the shockwave.
After everything went back to normal, he only saw Markov on where the shockwave happened. Will was nowhere to be founded.
"Warwolf 1, this is Warwolf 2! Do you read me?" However, there's no respond. "This is Warwolf 2! Answer me if you hear me!" Still, there's no respond. Guts began to panic since he couldn't detect Wilbert on his radar. "It's not funny, man! For God's sake! Please answer me!"
"Colonel Bishop, do you hear me?!" Writhe this time tried to contact him.
"Boss!""Commander!""Will!" The other yelled his name.
Markov opened his eyes and scanned the area. The heavy rain was still continued. And the gunfire and explosion has been ceased. But he couldn't find Wilbert. He began to expect that the Werewolf has been shut down.
"I…won?" However, he still couldn't believe that the most feared Coalition Force's ace can be defeated this easily. "No… it can't be…" He pulled his FN Five-Seven with his free left hand and trained it to every place. "Show yourself, Bishop! Don't be a coward like your fellow Americans!"
"Okay, Markov. I'll show myself, but be prepared!" Will's voice finally can be heard in the comms.
Jose's face brightened up again. "Will!"
Some seconds later, Will appeared from the clouds above Markov. He charged at Markov and stabbed Energy Saber on Markov's left striker. After that, Markov lost his balance. Will turned around again and fired two of his AIM-120 AMRAAMs. The Russian mage was unable to block the missiles and it hit his strikers, destroying it.
"Target is down!" Will stated.
"Woah! Nice shot, Amigo!" Guts said as he and the other Warwolves flew toward Will. They then flew in formation in front of the 7 C-17 Globemaster III transport aircrafts.
"Thanks for clearing the airspace!" One of the Globemaster pilots said.
Then, Guts noticed something. "What was that? Something's flashing!" After he finished, two laser strikes hit two of the Globemasters. Both of them engulfed in flames and fell to the sea.
"Apa tu?! Laser?!" Fakhrul exclaimed in Malay.
"Is that enemy fire?! AWACS, what the hell is going on?!" Writhe asked as she released the safety on her G36C with C drum mag.
"Hold on!" Golden eye said. "We detected an unknown contact! It's probably an enemy aircraft! Warwolf team, destroy them!"
"Roger that! Warwolves coming out!
Wardragon, back us up!" Later, the Witches and Wizards of the Warwolf and Wardragon squadron banked to the left of the transport aircraft.
John closed his left eye and activated his 'magic eye' ability on his right artificial eye. He saw a huge cube with black color with some red dots on it.
"Rorke, do you see something?"
"Yeah, but it's very weird. I think I saw Colossal Titan's Rubik's Cube flew towards us. I'm serious, no shit." The other stared at him in disbelieve looks.
"Are you sure, Commander?!" Zack asked his commander. "You were not drinking vodka while watching Attack on Titan, aren't-ouch!"
Fakhrul hit him with his M4's buttstock.
"We're still in a mission! So, shut your mouth Lieutenant Sabri!" The Major said coldly.
They finally saw the silhouette of the bogey. All of them, except John shocked after they saw the cube-like bogey. Will managed to hold his shock and stared at his fellow airmen. "Warwolf 1 to Warwolf and Wardragon flight! I got a visual on the bogey. Let's engage them!"
"Roger that!"
When they're ready to engage, the cube split up into countless smaller cubes. "What the fuck?!" Rina shouted.
"It's splitting into 210 smaller units." Sergei stated.
The cubes began to spreading through the rainy sky. Some of it flew closer to the Coalition Forces warships and fired their lasers on them. Fortunately, most of the ships which was the Naval Strikers managed to active their shield and blocked the lasers. But there were some ships that engulfed in flames because of the lasers. "Shit!" Will cursed.
"Order sir?" Writhe asked.
The Wing Commander sighed and stared at his subordinates. "Rina, Writhe, you both follow Fakhrul to defend the warships. The rest came with me! We need to buy sometime!" He then contacted the AWACS. "Golden Eye, this is Warwolf 1! Don't abort the mission! I say again! DON'T ABORT THE MISSION! Tell the rest of the Joint Tactical Fighter squadron and the Coalition Forces Fleet to protect the Transport at all costs! We will destroy the bogeys, over?"
There were some brief silences before Golden Eye replied. "Understood Warwolf! Be careful out there, out!"
He stared at the cube-like bogeys. "Warwolves! Engage!" he shouted before breaking to evade the laser. Wilbert trained his Rotary Cannon at the things and fired it. The things destroyed into snowflakes rather than fireball. The other bogeys answered by firing their laser weaponries at the Wizards, but it was blocked by their shields.
Guts smirked after see that their shields were immune to the lasers. "Man, even though those lasers looks really fearsome, it's even can't pass our shield! Hahaha, I almost forgot on how to use my shield!"
"Keep focus, Guts!" Will replied as he continued open firing on the cubes.
Then, a barrage of Anti Air Missiles hit the things and destroyed it. The Colonel looked at where the missiles came and saw the Wardragon Witches and Wizards there. "This is Wardragon 2! Let us help you to cleaning the shits, Warwolf 1!" Lex said.
"This is Warwolf 1, Roger! You can join us any time you want!" Wilbert answered calmly.
John then ordered his men and women. "Hak, Takenaka, Izumi, open the way for us!"
Hak smirked before pulled a pole from his back. "Rest it up to us!" He turned to his fellow Yona and Izumi. "Alright, let's do this! Same plan!" Then an Energy Blade came out from the tip of the pole, making it looks like a 'Hsu Quandao'.
"Understood!" The British-Japanese wizard with Royal Navy F-35B Lightning II, Chief Petty Officer Cinque Izumi said energetically as he pulled his Energy Sword. He has a blonde hair and blue eyes.
Both of them charged at the cubes and slashed many of them mercilessly. Yona was on their back with her Sumitomo Minimi. Her task was to destroy any enemies that tried to shut down Hak and Cinque.
But however, the enemies were so many and they were only wasting their ammo. "Dammit, there's too many of them!" Writhe grunted as she continued firing the cubes.
John cautiously scanned the things with his magic artificial eye. He noticed that one of the cubes has something glowing inside it. He quickly contacted Will. "Warwolf 1, this is Wardragon1! I noticed something weird inside one of those things!"
Will stopped firing and asked the Wardragon leader. "Say again Rorke?"
"I can't explain it briefly. But it was red and looks like a diamond or ball," He answered through the comms.
William's eyes were widened after he heard the glowing thing characteristic. "Red?! Like a ball?!" He remembered that ball-like thing inside the unknown bogey that kill Alice during the Battle of Miami. He gritted his teeth and screamed at the comms. "Where's that thing?!"
"It's right behind you!"
William turned around and saw one of the cubes flew passed him. "There you're!" He gave a chase on the thing. The other cubes tried to push him back, but he fired his cannon at them. "Warwolf 1 to all units! I found the enemy's weakness! Cover me!"
"Yes sir!" All of the Warwolves said as they flew around their Wing Commander to protect him while locked the bandit with glowing ball.
"I don't fucking care what hell you're!" The radar finally locked the bandit. "But you must pay Alice's death!""Fox two!" He fired an AIM-9 Sidewinder at the bandit. The missile hit the cube at one of it corner caused it to flying out of control and exposed the glowing red ball. Wilbert trained his IAR at the cube and fired. It hit the ball and destroyed the cube, including the rest of the cuboid things.
"They're destroyed! We did it!" Guts yelled.
"Fuh, I think this is my third times fighting bogeys that packed with laser!" Rina exhaled deeply.
Will ordered his team to follow him as close as possible because the big storm has just begins. "Golden Eye, this is Warwolf 1! All targets had been neutralized!"
"Roger that! Nice work, team!" After some silence, the AWACS said again. "Warwolf team, the airborne troops has successfully landed! Well done! Return to…*static*" The comms was ended with static.
"Golden Eye, do you read me, over?" There was no respond. He stared at his subordinates who all of them were staring at him. "Golden Eye, this is Warwolf 1! Do you read me, over?" Still, there's no respond.
"AWACS! Rorke! Bridges! Akagi! Any one, do you read me? Please respond!" He finally shouted.
"What the hell?!" Will heard Guts cursed.
"What is it, Guts?" He asked his wingman.
"Check your radar, sir! All of them are gone!"
Will looked to his radar and only saw 6 blue triangles on it aside for a white triangle on the center of the radar which was him. "Did all of them sunk after this storm? No, that can't be possible!"
"Mother of God, what's happening here?" Alexi exclaimed.
Will silenced himself for a while before turned to Sergei. "Sergei, check any frequency on the radio!"
"Da!" He said as he tracked any frequency with his magic.
Rina sighed after she saw many weird things happened this evening. "Fuh, I hope I don't miss that movie," She said as she checked her military styled watch. She gasped in shock after she saw her watch's needles spinning wildly.
"Mein gott, what the hell is happening?" Writhe exclaimed after she saw the compass on her HUD spinning wildly.
"What is happening?! A fucking magnetic storm?!" Fakhrul shouted.
"Colonel, I found something!" Sergei informed.
Will gave him a 'what is it' look. Later, a voice of a middle aged Japanese man appeared on the radio.
"To the United Nations Coalition Forces Fleet IFF transponder Juliet Foxtrot ID 8657-409, this is Captain Umezu with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Submarine, JDS Hiryuu of the 5th UNCF Fleet! If you read this transmission please-"
Wilbert quickly grabbed his intercoms and answered the Captain. "This is Lieutenant Colonel Bishop of the Warwolf! Where's your position?"
"Right bellow you!" The Captain replied. Wilbert stared at the sea below him and saw a silhouette of a Japanese Soryu-class Submarine under the sea surface. "What will we do, Chuusa(Commander)?"
"We'll return back to base and tried to reestablish contacts with the HQ!"
"Affirmative, cover us from above! We will contact you after we found the other ships and aircrafts! We are gonna dive now, out!" Then, the JDS Hiryu began to dive deeper. The Witches and Wizards continued flew toward Pescara with the Submarine.
June 5th 2017, 1505 hours
HQ of the United Nations, New York, U.S.A
Headquarter of the United Nations is one of the most popular buildings in the world because it's the Headquarter of the only organization that can pushed back the AWWB, United Nations Coalition Force. Inside the meeting room, many peoples sat around the round table. Some of them were high ranking persons. They were the President of the United States, David Hamilton; the United Nations Secretary-General, Kim Soo-Won; Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Motoi; President of Indonesia, Wawan Sudarsono; and many others.
All of them were discussing if they will continue the SAR mission on the lost warships or not. Secretary-General Kim Soo-Won and some of the high ranking persons gave up on the SAR mission because they don't found anything while Prime Minister Motoi, President Sudarsono, and the rest insisted that they will continue the SAR mission with or without UN's assistance.
"But Mr. President, we don't found anything there, not even a single piece of fragment! It's just look like what happened in the Bermuda Triangle!" Kim Soo-won said to President Sudarsono.
"No! We will continue the SAR mission no matter what the costs! Even if that means no UN's Assistance!" President Sudarsono said.
"Yes, I agree with Mr. Sudarsono. There are hundreds of brave men and women aboard those ships! We can't just sit down and forget about them!" Prime Minister Shinzo said.
President Hamilton was still thinking if he will support to continue the SAR mission or not. There were peoples aboard those ships -281 of them are American- has families that worriedly waiting them at home. But, since the SAR mission started two weeks ago, they didn't find anything. They are completely gone.
Then, Motoi checked his hand phone. "Excuse me." He said as he got up and left the room.
Sudarsono who was sitting just near the door can hear the Prime Minister voices clearly, but unfortunately, he can't speak Japanese and didn't understand what the Prime Minister said.
Some minutes later, Motoi entered back the room and sat on his respective seat. He cleared his throat and began to talk. "I've just got a report from Admiral Iori Hasegawa of the 5th UNCF Fleet. He said that the 'Operation Flamming Arrows' is success." All of the people's present on the meeting room began to chuckled and smiling happily. But Motoi's face didn't seem so happy. "But…we got a bad news."
"What's the bad news, Mr. Prime Minister?" Hamilton finally asked the Prime Minister of Japan.
He sighed before said. "At 2010 hours local time on Mediterranean Sea, the 108th Joint Tactical Fighter and JS Hiryu were declared MIA. There's a possibility that the case is the same like the other lost warships."