Chapter two
Shawn had spent the next week going through practice runs allowing him to get the feel for the controls. He had only been called out once and that was for a small aircraft entering U.S. airspace. He was forced to fire a warning shot since the pilot was not communicating,after the shot the pilot turned back around and headed home. It has been three days since then and he was getting tired of the practice runs.
Shawn was sitting in his barracks when the speakers rang out saying,"attention attention! Squadron foxtrot meet in the briefing room" Shawn looked up,that was his squadron he quickly ran to his locker throwing on his flight suit and grabbed his helmet. He was jogging down the hall and skidded into the briefing room where he was met with his squadron, he quickly sat down and took out a notepad.
"now that we are all here let's begin" the same sergeant that welcomed them the first day," at about o eight hundred hours three unidentified jets entered our airspace. They have refused to answer to our warnings. We suspect them to be hostile and we estimate them to be here" he tapped the map tacked to the wall,"your mission is to identify wether they are hostile or not,if so dispose of them. That is all. God speed gentlemen" he said saluting them.
Shawn and his squadron picked up their gear and ran out onto the Tarmac where their planes were being readied. Shawn reached his f-18 and climbed in,securing himself into the chair he put on his helmet,strapped the mask on and gave the thumbs up to the assistant standing on the ladder. The assistant nodded and closed the canopy. Shawn shifted his attention over to his right wing checking to make sure the flaps were operational, he did so with the left.
"control tower this foxtrot leader we are a go" he heard his squadron leader say.
"roger that foxtrot leader you have a green light. Godspeed" the control tower said.
"roger over and out" the leader said. Shawn watched as the leader lined up on the runway and gained speed. Lifting off the ground he began to circle waiting for the rest of his squadron. Shawn waited his turn watching three more jets taking off before he was lined up. He gripped his control stick with a death grip and thrusted the throttle forward making his body flatten against the seat as he gained speed. When he got off the ground he flipped the switch to raise the landing gear he then flew to form up with the rest of his squadron.
"okay boys lets make this fast and easy" his leader said
He heard his team say roger one after another then he said,"roger that foxtrot 1"
They flew for about ten minutes before the jet next to him announced ,"bogeys at one a clock"
"roger that foxtrot 3. Okay boys this is it,stay in formation." Then Shawn got the blips on his radar. He watched as the slowly got closer. All of the sudden the plane to his left exploded.
Shawn yelled into his headset,"foxtrot 2 is down. Holy shit where'd that come from!"
"12 a clock high" foxtrot 1 yelled,"break up break up engage hostiles!"
"roger" Shawn said as he banked left, he sighted in one of the enemy jets and fired his machine guns. He guided his bullets to the right watching the tracer rounds hit the enemy's wing making it smoke.
Shawn's dashboard lit up and a alarm ranged out. He looked at his screen, there big red letters reading"MISSILE LOCK"
"shit" Shawn said as he saw one of the jets fire a missile. He did a barrel roll to the right barely missing the missile. But he didn't relax he knew the missile had turned around and was coming right back for him. He quickly pressed a button on the control stick. The belly of his jet ejected flares causing the missile to fly off and explode. He sighed at the sight of the exploding missile.
"enemy fighter down. Two more" foxtrot 1 said.
Suddenly a streak of smoke came from behind foxtrot 1 and hit his wing.
"I'm hit! I'm hit! Ejecting now!" he screamed into his mike. Shawn saw the pilot shoot out of the cockpit and a chute flowered into the air slowly lowering him to the ground. Foxtrot 1's jet crashed into the ground below causing dust,smoke,and debris fly up.
"it's just us two"foxtrot 3 said.
"roger that lets kill these sons of a bitches" Shawn said. He banked hard right revealing a enemy fighter it's wing smoking. He smiled as he thought not getting away this time. He heard the sound of a missile launch and heard," missile lock and away" foxtrot 3 said. But before the enemy aircraft exploded it launched a missile towards it attacker," oh hell. Kill that last motherf..." foxtrot 3 was cut off as he exploded right after the enemy fighter too had exploded.
"FUCK" Shawn said,"your gonna pay asshole" he was till following the enemy plane. Shawn had his thumb on the missile button all he was waiting for was the lock on. He heard the beep telling him he had lock and he fired. The missile streaking across the sky. But the enemy fighter released flares making the missile explode.
"damn" Shawn said as he started to fire his machine guns,suddenly a large light engulfed the enemy fighter. The light staying in the sky as the fighter disappeared.
"what the hell is that" he said to himself. He tried to bank right but found his jet unresponsive. He yelled into his headset,"mayday,mayday this if foxtrot 4 enemy fighter pilot engulfed by light, my fighter is unresponsive. I repeat mayday,may..." he was cut off as the light swallowed him to. He was still fighting with the control stick while traveling down a long red purple tunnel. He saw a bright light at the end. When his jet hit that light he was over a forest.
He took in his surroundings and saw the enemy fighter still flying off. But something was wrong it was flying around in a circle. When Shawn got closer he saw that the fighter was circling around a town. He saw people come out of their places of Business and their homes to look up at the jet and the other jet coming towards them. They look afraid Shawn observed. He then went back to the enemy fighter who was now flying towards him. Shawn went into a barrel roll and fired his guns. The enemy fighter fired it guns too poking Shawn's wing. The two passed each climbed higher and then dove back done locking on yet again. He fired his another missile, it streaked forward the enemy fighter rolled to the left and fired its guns at Shawn .
Shawn rolled left ,he watched as the missile turned about and came back at the fighter. He saw the enemy pilot shoot out from the jet. The fighter went on the missile right behind it. At about the same time the pilot opened his chute the fighter exploded. Bits of flaming fuel and parts raided down onto a field, big chunks of metal also fell into the field.
Shawn did a circle around the pilot scaring him as Shawn's jets roared a little too close for comfort. Shawn went back to looking at the town but noticed something shoot out from behind a mountain. Four objects were flying towards him trailing ...clouds? What the hell Shawn thought what's happening here.
They flew passed him but turned around and came up next to him. Shawn looked at the two on his right but just glancing, he quickly looked again and saw that there were two Pegasus with navy blue skin tight suits and goggles on. He looked at the samething on his left. One of the Pegasus motioned to him to fly lower. Shawn was so dumbstruck he went lower. Ignoring the Pegasus he flew on looking for a good place to land. The only spot he could find was a flat field.
"perfect" Shawn said he reduced his speed and lowered the landing gear. The four Pegasus flew in front of him. He gasped at the sudden movement. He tried to motion them out of the way but they didn't move. Shawn growled as he pulled the trigger firing the guns trying to scare them. It worked on all of them except one started falling. Two of its friends flew down and caught it. They flew off to the town holding thier buddy. Shawn went back to trying to land his fighter,he was close to the ground now, he pulled up the nose of the plane up as the plane slowly hit ground the tires skidding on the dirt. He slowly came to a stop.
Shawn sighed a sigh of relief and threw open the canopy. He got out slowly and inspected his wing that had gotten hit.
"nothing major" he said to himself.
"there it is!" A voice from behind ranged out,"get it!"
Shawn turned around seeing about four ponies rushing him. He dove to the side avoiding the ponies. He got and tried to say,"wait" but he was muffled by the mask he still wore. He tried to pull off the helmet but was hit in the side from one of the four ponies that rushed him. Shawn toppled over the air leaving his lungs as he hit the ground. He tried to get up only to be pinned down by the four ponies.
Shawn tried to break free but found that it was getting him nowhere. He tried to speak again but the mask made him sound like a bunch of muffles and murmurs. He stopped trying to speak and looked over at the growing crowd of ponies. He saw the enemy pilot being dragged away by another four ponies. He was yelling something but suddenly his field of vision was covered by one the Pegasus that had flown next to him, then it all went black.