WINGS OVER EQUESTRIA
CHAPTER 4
The enemy plane was closing in on blaze's plane, I was lined up behind it, I had a radar lock
"IT'S NOW OR NEVER!" I thought aloud.
I squeezed the missile trigger, sending an aim-9 sidewinder hurling towards the enemy jet, but then, nothing, no explosion, no fire, the missile was a dud.
"WHAT THE BUCK!" I yelled.
I now only had one missile left , and in a rookie mistake, fired it before I had a radar lock on the fighter in front of me. I was now Winchester. The enemy fighter finally took evasive maneuvering. I started to pursue, when there came a voice over the radio.
" Dash, get out of the skies and back to the ground, your still just a trainee" the voice said
I knew who was talking to me, it was spectrum, a mare who just got out of flight training, she was a good pilot, but she was cocky, an attribute that could prove fatal in the air force.
She came swooping in from under me, and ended up overshooting her target, she was now vulnerable, the unknown fighter took advantage of her mistake, putting itself right behind her jet. Spectrum tried to evade, but it was no use, the enemy was stuck on her tail, the enemy jet fired a missile, which went streaking into spectrum's tail pipe, and detonated. I looked at the blazing ball of fire.
"SPECTRUM!" I shouted
I thought she was a goner, then I saw the canopy fly off her once identifiable plane, and she ejected.
"Thank Celestia" I thought to myself.
I now, again, found myself behind the enemy. I had no missiles though, I had to go in for a gun kill. I increased my air speed and got up close to the jet. I open fired, 20mm cannon fire ripped through the plane, causing an explosion of shrapnel and plane parts right in front of me. It was all over.
I checked around to see if there was any more bogeys in the air, there wasn't. blaze and barracks had managed to make it out of the fight. I wish I could've said the same about spectrum. They sent out a search party for her after we landed they had to airlift her back. She was in critical condition when she came back. I saw her in the infirmary, her once beautiful ice blue coat was now blotched with red. The sight was pretty awful, seeing her in this condition reminded me how, in a split second, your life can be taken from you.