The Legend Of Spyro: Unsung Heroes

Chapter 5:

"Journey Home"

Operation SuperCircus

1700 hrs, 29 November 2010

November City

Blaze took Spyro, Vexx and Shifter to the break room. Reunited at last!

"Cynder!" Spyro said. "I'm glad to see you again."

"I hate being stuck in a confinded space, with no food or anything else." Cynder said, "I'm starving, I wonder what there is that I can eat."

Cynder began sniffing the aroma that came from the food stand. But her eyes were on a piece of medium-rare T-Bone steak in Choppers' hands.

"Cynder, I don't think that's a good idea." Nagase warned.

But Cynder assured her. "Look I'm hungry and I have to have something or else I'll go hungry for the thing I see." Blaze, Grimm and Nagase all made an audible gulp, fearing what she might do. "Hey don't worry." she said with a toothy grin. "He won't know what hit him." "And besides, humans aren't my type of food or diet either." she laughed. She cloaked herself with her shadow element and disappeared, "Ah, c'mon that's ridiculous, I can't find my wallet anywhere, well guess i'll have to check in my room, aww and now I can't bring my supper with me, great." Chopper whined. So he got up out of his seat and went to find his wallet. Cynder, after holding in her element for an extended amount of time released it and materialized on the seat. Nagase put a hand over her mouth because of what she was about to do.

Cynder grabbed the piece of steak in her mouth and silently made her way back to where Nagase and the others were sitting and ate it quickly. A split second later Chopper arrived and made his way to the table where he was sitting, and when he went to go sit down with a fork and steak knife in his hand, he did not notice the steak wasn't there until he shoved the fork in his mouth. He looked down at his plate and frowned. He took the fork out of his mouth and exclaimed "Alright where did my steak go, who took it?!" Everyone burst out laughing at the sight before them. "Who took it?" I want to know." Chopper said. Just as Cynder swallowed the last bite Chopper found out who took it when he seen someone swallow. It was Cynder. "Dammit, Cynder, I didn't expect you to take it." Then he burst out laughing as well. "Well jokes on me, but that was the last steak they had; oh well."

The PA System kicked in: "Attention this is Orson Perrault, Wardog Squadron, you and the new squadron are to report the briefing room immeditately." Then it shut off. "Nagase, Grimm, Chopper fall in; the rest of you follow me." Blaze said. As they approached the briefing room everyone was a bit nervous. Blaze saw them being nervous. "Relax guys lighten up, maybe we get a week off. But when they entered they sat down immediately intent on listening to what was to be said. "Alright, this is a special day for all of you, we're holding a peace ceremony at a stadium in November city." Perrault said. "Our Vice President will be giving a speech to rally the citizens." He continued speaking. "Now...uh... you've been asked to do a fly-by above the ceremony." After he said this he yelled" Don't screw this up!" But then he calmed down, "You should consider this an honour, and do your part to boost citizen morale!" This is the Vice President we're dealing with here, so consider this a guard detail as well and be prepared for anything out there." Chopper mumbled "Why are we doing this?" "We are in the middle of a damn war." "Hey, Second Lieutenant Davenport cut the chatter." Perrault ordered.

Then there was that monotone voice, it began briefing them immediately. "Your mission this time takes place above November International Stadium- a gigantic, 70,000-seat arena located in the centre of the city of November, on the southern coastline of Osea." Vice President Appelrouth is giving a speech there, an you will be conducting a fly-by above the stadium as part of the production." "You can return to base at 1730 hrs, the time the speech is scheduled to end." "After the fly-by, remain in formation and conduct a combat air patrol in and around the stadium until that time." This is a ceremonial flight, but you will be fully armed in case of an emergency." "Don't forget to patrol the airspace surrounding the stadium too." Then the briefing was done. "Alright you know what to do, so don't disappoint me!" Perrault said. "Wardog and Sharpshooter Squadron on me head to the hangar." Blaze said. And they did exactly as they were told. They each got into their personal planes, well Sharpshooter squadron did but Blaze chose Chopper, Nagase and Grimm's planes. Blaze choze an F-22, so he thought, "I think the guys might perfer a stealth fighter and one that has good maneuverability and two other planes I have in mind." Blaze called Nagase over and she asked "Captain, what plane should I pick?" Blaze told her "I want you Nagase to have an F-22 Raptor, since it has good stealth." So next was Chopper, he got chosen the F-14D Super Tomcat. Last but not least, Grimm in the SU-47 Berkut which has great speed and mobility. Nagase asked Blaze" Captain, are you sure you want to launch in this formation?" Blaze responded with a yes.

Chopper said into his mic. "Wardog and Sharpshooter Launch!"

They were leaving the base unaware of what might become of them all. Perrault had some allies on his side, which meant bad news for Wardog and Sharpshooter squadron when they get back.

Outside of November City...

As they were flying towards their destination Grimm spoke up. "I'm proud to be flying like this." Then Chopper spoke up as well "This is a ceremonial flight. Watch your manners, Kid." Blaze responded sarcastically "I know well enough Chopper thanks for the heads up." Nagase broke the chatter between Chopper and Blaze, "Everyone, form up that includes you as well Sharpshooters and don't stray apart from each other. But then she addressed Blaze. "Okay, Blaze?" Blaze said "Yes, Nagase loud and clear."

She then stated "Great. Let's begin."

As they were climbing upwards Thunderhead spoke, "It's time. Begin your ceremonial flight."

As they were leveling out to do a steep dive and then a moment later to climb again, Chopper said "Nice, Kid. We look great."

They were nearing November City. "We're keeping this formation pretty tight." Grimm said with confidence. As they were over the city Sharpshooter squadron took turns; the six planes breaking off into two groups of three and the reforming back up to make another pass. Wardog Squadron aka "Razgriz Squadron" the squadron who took out the underwater carrier the Scinfaxi; did a loop the loop and turned their planes right-side up to make another pass. Nagase told everyone as they passed the stadium again for the second time told them all of them were flying beautifully and they should keep it up. After they were past the stadium Thunderhead spoke again. "This marks the end of your flight, Good work Wardog." Chopper made a smart-ass comment, "You wouldn't expect anything less from this group. We were really smooth up there."

Then the Vice President spoke up, "People of Osea... Please lend an ear to this broadcast." "As your Vice President, I stand here on behalf of the President of Osea." "Listen to your fellow countrymen cheering before me."

"They are filled with anger against Yuktobania and they swear that they will not drop their weapons until Yuktobania has surrendered." "Now, I ask you to listen." Listen to their cheers!" As soon as the VP was done talking Chopper cut in, "Aw great here comes the thunderous applause." But there was silence then the people in the stadium broke out in song.

The VP was astounded and shocked," Wait that song..." Citizens, please, stop this..." Then Chopper started singing too, "Thoughts endless in flight, day turns to night... but then he caught himself singing too and stopped. "Hey Chopper don't ever sing again." Spyro remarked. Grimm spoke up too... "That isn't exactly Rock 'n' Roll, you know."

Chopper snapped back, "Who cares?" "Hey, they wanna get along with the enemy too, right?" Man, this song's got soul!"

"This is Thunderhead, Approaching enemy formation confirmed. Wardog and Sharpshooter squadron engage them. A yuke pilot said over the mic, "Stadium in sight." "Secure the airspace until the Gorizont Squadron arrives." "What the hell?" Shifter began to reply, "Another Squadron?"

Nagase was getting worried, "Are we...the only allies here?"

Thunderhead replied back, "McNealy Air Force Base tried to scramble fighters, but the runway was blocked after someone crashed on takeoff." "I'm calling for reinforcments now." It'll be 6 minutes before the nearest squadron arrives." Nagase replied, "Roger that." Everyone kept on engaging the enemy in front of them. "So, we're on our own until then?" Grimm said. Not knowing what they were going to get themselves into. Chopper broke the silence... "Hey wait a minute they're still singing. Why aren't they evacuating the stadium? Where's the air-raid siren?"

As they were progressing through their mission Nagase said that they were being pushed back. Spyro and the others were having a ball with shooting down the enemies. "Hey this is like target practice, very good if you want to be an ace like Blaze." Vexx said, as he shot a missile at a SU-47, which exploded in mid-air. Spyro and Cynder tag team against two planes which were Mig-21's, they took them both down with two well-placed missile strikes.

Alexandra and Shifter were In the city weaving in and out of buildings, Blaze went down after them since they had 6 planes on their tail, Blaze did some crazy maneuvers to try and shoot down all six of those planes. "Captain should we disperse?, there are too many of them!" Blaze responded, "Affirmative, let's bring these guys down." Just as he shot the last one down, Nagase exclaimed," Incredible, look at how the captain is flying." Chopper was a bit frightened, "With moves like that I think the Kid himself would most likely turn the tides of battle and eventually win the war all by himself." Grimm had a plane on his tail. "Bandit on Grimm's tail I'm on it." Cynder said. So Cynder went after that enemy plane, target: F-22 Raptor. She used her laser instead of her missiles because it dealt more damage. "Kvant 8, bandit on your tail." A Yuke pilot said, too late. The plane vapourized into fragments, "Kvant 8 shot down! Damn Razgriz!"

"Kid, this is Chopper...Are the reinforcements close?" Chopper said, hoping that the reinforcments would arrive soon and lend them a hand.

"Yes, Chopper they should be arriving soon." Blaze said.

"Roger, I'll hang on a little longer." Chopper said. "We aren't in a good position here we'll get shot down easily."Cynder said, we need to push forward." Grimm spoke after 5 minutes. "Captain Davenport, how much longer do you think we can hold them off?!"

Chopper was furious, he couldn't take it, too many people were dying so he said, "Till the very end, you idiot!" "We've got to protect these people!" Grimm was starting to panic after a while, "Reinforcments aren't coming what's going on?!"

Thunderhead tried to reassure Grimm. "Reinforcements are on the way! Just hang in there!" Thunderhead was getting frustrated. "Dammit, none of the bases are responding to me!" "So what does that mean for all of us we all came here to watch people get killed and us get killed ourselves?!" Alexandra said. Then something went wrong. "Look, One of the Razgriz planes is trailing smoke." A Yuke pilot in one of the stealth fighters said.

"This is Thunderhead, we called back the enemy fighters." Thunderhead replied. Chopper cut in, "A little too late, man. There goes the radar. My circuits are toast." Spyro said to Chopper, "Look just forget about it, Chopper, just bail out." "Please bail out." Chopper said to Spyro, "Okay, Guess now's the time." Thunderhead replied back, "This is Thunderhead. Captain Davenport are you all right?" There's the stadium. I'm dropping the plane over there." Chopper said. Nagase replied, "Roger. Now, get out." The two words that escaped Choppers' mouth were shocking to everyone including Sharpshooter squadron. "I can't." "What the hell do you mean you can't?!" Vexx shouted hoping for an answer. And Raziel spoke in what seemed like forever. " Bail out, Davenport, or you'll die." "You hear me BAIL OUT NOW!" Chopper continued to speak, "The electrical system's all messed up. The canopy won't open." "The ejection seat's probably not working, either." "Who-Who's steak am I going to "steal" from the plate now?" Cynder was tearing up. "Oh Cynder, *sigh* Heh-Heh,I'm gonna miss that sweet voice." Chopper felt pity for Cynder and the rest of them. What happened next shocked everyone, Cynder couldn't bear to watch. Everyone screamed Chopper's name as his plane exploded into a big mass of flames, seeing no parachute in the process either.

"No, h-h-he i-is g-gone!" Cynder burst into tears. She couldn't stop either. But there was a battle to be won. "Dammit" "I hate to say this now, but there's a second enemy wave approaching." Thunderhead said quietly. "This is bullshit, we just seen one of our best friends crash to his death and now this." Shifter started to reply. "Damn, Yukes watch out because the Sharpshooters are on your asses."

Shifter started to engage without warning , that was very frightening to the enemy. Grimm was furious and started to engage the enemy. A yuke pilot even mocked the Razgriz, "This is the true power of the Razgriz?! Cynder shot the last one down, "We were no match for them after all!" Another pilot said. As the last enemy was shot down, Thunderhead responded, "We just got word from the ground... except for a few injuries in the confusion following the evacuation ther were no civilian casualties in the stadium." "Did he make it out alive?" Shifter said. Thunderhead replied, "Captain Davenport is...dead." "He... he was a model fighter pilot to the end." "Join me in saluting Captain Davenport!" Everyone returned to base, they at 1800 hrs held a memorial service in honour of him. And each one of the squadron member held a mournful face. This was the last ride for Davenport. May he be remembered.

A/N: I can't believe it, I mean Chopper is dead, everyone wants revenge on Yuktobania, who's next? I left out a huge gap in the story line I know but I wanted to make the story have the big battles not the small ones, that makes it interesting, if anyone can help me make this story better please I urge you, PM me or review. I need more depth to the story, to make it even more interesting, if anyone can help me with some grammar that would be greatly appreciated!