WINGS OVER EQUESTERIA

CHAPTER 3

It was three weeks before I couldn't take it anymore; I had to know what caused the captain to lose his wings. I decided to find out the next day during our flight training.

The next day during flight training, I asked him.

"Captain, if I might ask, what caused you to lose your wings"

The captain stayed silent, I knew it must be painful for any Pegasus to recall what caused them to be unable to fly, but I was desperate to know so bad, so I asked him again, this time with a louder, more demanding voice.

" SIR, PLEASE, TELL ME"

He stayed silent, again, I was going to ask him again, but was stopped in the middle of my sentence by a sudden radio message.

" CAPTAIN BARRACKS, THIS IS SERGEANT BLAZE, I'VE BEEN FIRED UPON BY FOUR UNIDENTIFIED BOGEY'S, IM TRYING TO EVADE BUT I CANT SHAKE THEM, YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE IN THE AIR, HELP ME!"

I instantly wondered what the captain was going to do, and more importantly what I was going to do, then the captain radioed me

"Rookie, get back to the base, you're not ready for dogfights"

"But sir I think I can help" I told him hoping for a chance to prove I wasn't a rookie.

He responded, annoyed "LOOK ROOKIE, YOU'RE NOT READY FOR COMBAT YOU JUST STARTED TRAINING WITH MISSLES, GET BACK TO BASE"

I was annoyed with the captain, I knew I could at least do something to help, but there was no point in arguing so, I headed back to base. Before I started landing procedures I looked to the right of me and saw the captain and sergeant Blaze, dogfighting with jets that had unidentifiable markings, then I thought.

"wait didn't blaze say that there were four bogeys."

Just then a loud siren went off in my cockpit, it was a missile lock siren, I was being targeted. I looked behind me, and on my six were the two other unidentified planes, one of them fired a missile, now the missile warning was flaring, I pulled hard left and let out flares, nothing, the missile was getting closer, I was a goner. I tried one last time to evade, I pulled up on the stick as hard as I could, the sudden maneuver jerked me around in my seat, but after that nothing happened, the alarms and red lights had gone, I escaped the attack. There was no time to celebrate though, I was still being targeted, I turned left and right, hoping to lose the bandits on my tail, but to no avail. Just then a sudden flash of light came from behind me; I check my six and saw one of the planes going down in a smoldering ball of fire, who took him down, asked myself. I looked around and saw Blaze, he had gotten out of his fight and into mine, he took out one plane, but there was still one more in the sky, and now, in a unforeseen turn of events, that jet was trailing Blaze.

I hoped captain Barracks would come in and help Blaze, but as I looked to where I last saw the captain, I could see he was still in his own furball. I had to be the one to help blaze, I pulled hard left on the stick, decreasing my speed as I did so, the tight turn put massive g's on my body, but it put me right behind the bandit.

My adrenaline was racing,

"ITS NOW OR NEVER"