Ace Combat : Shadows of War
Chapter 2
The five jets of Kaizer squadron scream across the sky as they speed towards the engagement zone, Alteric looks down at his radar. "I'm picking up 15...16...17 bogeys on radar, pick a target and lock on with your long range missiles." Alteric says as he picks out a target and locks onto it.
"Roger." The other four say as they each lock onto a separate aircraft.
"Kaizer one fox one." He then squeezes the trigger and the missile drops from his wing and fly off to its target.
The other four call out their shot and their missiles all fire off at the same time, the five missiles streak across the sky. Each missile finds their target sending the planes they hit downwards as giant fireballs, the other jets go active and break off and fly towards them.
Alteric looks ahead, "This is Kaizer one I can see four long range heavy bombers, the fighters are escorting them." Alteric reports back to the tower.
"Roger that, those bombers are of the highest priority, you must take them down before they can get within range of striking us." The tower says to them.
"Roger that." Alteric says then flies in marking an enemy fighter, he gets around behind him and sprays the rear of his plane with bullets. The engine becomes filled with holes then explodes, tearing apart the one wing. It spirals out of control down towards the ground, Alteric then moves on to the next target.
Jessica arcs through the sky as she follows after an enemy jet, bullets are streaking across the sky from her jet as her shots just miss. She holds onto the flight stick tightly as she follows after the jet as it spins through the air, she keeps firing her guns at the enemy jet in front of her. Her bullets rip across its wing it throws the plane out of balance and she aims at its engines and opens fire again ripping its engines apart, black smoke starts to billow out of its engines as it spirals out of control towards the ground. She's about to let out a small cry of triumph when suddenly alarms started to sound in her cockpit, she looks around some and sees an enemy jet on her tail. She looks forward and banks hard to the left trying to shake the jet chasing her, bullets whiz past the cockpit. She looks down as an alarm sounds and a red light flashes indicating a missile lock, her eyes go wide and she banks hard to the right. No matter how fast and hard she turns she can't lose the fighter on her tail, just as the enemy fighter is about to fire its missile it suddenly explodes as a missile strikes it from below.
Alteric then suddenly comes flying up past her, he looks over at her some. "Always keep your eyes open." He then breaks off engaging another fighter.
Despite the number of bandits it takes them less then a half hour to eliminate the remaining fighters and the four bombers, Alteric looks around some seeing only his wing in the air. "Kaizer one to base, all fighters and bombers have been shot down."
"Roger that Kaizer wing, all units RTB." The tower says to them.
Alteric and his wing head back to base, as they arrive back home they land parking their jets outside their hanger. Alteric climbs out of his jet and climbs down out of it, he reaches up removing his helmet. He sighs some as he looks back seeing his wing mates climb out of their jets, he then tosses his helmet back up into his cockpit. He then walks off towards the barracks.
Jessica runs to catch up to him, she smiles looking up at him. "Thank you for helping me up there. "She says looking at him.
He looks over at her, "It was nothing, I was just glad I was able to stop them before they could fire." He says.
She smiles as a light pink goes across her cheeks, she then looks forward and down, "You were very amazing up there, I'm always just awestruck watching you in action." She says softly.
He smiles some hearing her, "Thank you, I just do my best up there, so I can keep the four of you safe." He says looking over at her slightly.
A light shade of red goes over her cheeks hearing him, "Thank you, that's why I'm so glad you're on our side." She says softly.
He looks over at her hearing her, he then looks forward looking down some, "Yeah..." He says softly, he then looks up some seeing the barracks. "Well this is where we split paths."
She looks up some then nods her head some, "Alright, I'll talk to you later." She then walks off heading back to her room.
He sighs softly watching her walk off, he heads into the barracks heading back to the showers. He heads over to his locker taking off his flight suit, he reaches into the locker pulling out his towel. He heads back to the showers and hangs his towel up so it won't get wet, he then heads over to the shower knobs and turns on the water. He looks down some as he lets the water fall down over him, he closes his eyes some as the water cascades down over his body. After a few minutes of just standing there he reaches over and takes some soap, he starts to clean himself off. Once he got all lathered up he lets the water wash away the soap, once cleaned off he turns off the showers and heads over grabbing his towel. He dries himself off as he moves back to his locker, once dried off he tosses his towel into his locker and pulls out the clean clothes he has in it. He reaches into the locker reaching into the pocket of a jacket he had in the locker, he pulls out a cell phone and flips it open. He inputs a phone number into it, then holds it up to his ear. "Alright its time………that's right prepare the Hresvelgr for flight………yes, I will be needing that plane……..alright." He then holds up his other arm and looks at the watch on that wrist, "…2400 hours till begin…….roger………see you there…." He then folds his phone back up and looks down at the ground sadly, "I will miss them….." He says silently as he leaves the barracks and heads back to his room.
End Chapter 2