Chapter 41 Trials in the sky and heart
"YO ARTHUR!" America yelled out loud towards Britain. This interrupts the talk of the four.
"YOU BLOODY AMERICA! WHEN WOULD YOU KNOW HOW TO CORRECTLY TIME YOUR BLOODY INTERRUPTION " Britain yelled at the American.
"Yo, we still need to fix this school, and I'm asking for…"
"Instead of asking a loan…" Britain tucks his hand on his green jacket and in an instant, the entire ceiling of the canteen and all of the mess in the room is all cleaned up as if nothing happened.
"What sort of sorcery is this?" Germany said while cleaning the outside and noticed the immediate changes.
"HEY GERMANY, WE COULD PLAY FOOTBALL AFTER THIS!" Italy Veneciano yelled at the distance.
After the lunch break, Germany continues the simulator part of the day. However…
"This isn't quite right…" Germany noticed that Trixie is now clinging… on Timmy's hand. "Why would…"
"I made a deal with Trixie that I have Timmy on half the day and she will have him for the other half." Tootie remarked, standing on the other side of Timmy with her arms crossed.
"…what's wrong with kids these days…" Germany remarked. He then stood up straight and said "Just go inside and never let your cover blown up or else the other kids might get a little bit suspicious on this.
In the simulation world and a very long tutorial…
"Say, what lane should I choose?" Tootie telepathically asks the other two.
"Let's see… I know. Let's fly the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcons." Trixie suggested. At that moment, a message coming Chester came in and typed "Have you chosen the plane you want to fly? I suggest the F-16 programmed here."
"Well, we'll try…" Timmy replied.
"I would rather have any plane with supermaneuverability…"Trixie also replied.
"Well, since you are flying in the American flag, expect this to happen." Chester typed in.
"So that means, Terry, Sheila, Miles, happy hunting!" Timmy remarked. They have now positioned in the airbase inside the cockpit of their planes, the formidable F-16 Falcon. Timmy's plane is being led by the ground crew towards the runway and was about to takeoff when he said towards the radio…
"Trixie, I know this is sudden but…"
"Please just ask for permission to take-off…" Trixie shyly said.
"JUST TAKE OFF ALREADY!" Tootie yelled.
"Alright, this is red 2, permission for take-off" Timmy said.
"Negative…" Germany, acting as the ground control, said "… red 1 is still going to take-off."
"Wait, I thought…"
"Red 1, just go and take-off!" Germany yelled.
"Argghhh…" Timmy said. He puffs out some air and asks "Who's red 1?"
"You, you dumkoft!"
"Roger that… red 1, permission to take-off…"
Now on the air at 40,000 ft, Timmy and Tootie were surprised on one unique characteristic of the F-16: its unique fly-by-wire system. However, Trixie, who happens to yield an interesting knowledge on the plane, said "This is toned down to a much easier handling setting. I usually play this in realistic settings…"
"How long have you been…" At that moment, Chester was stopped when Tootie yelled "BOGEYS AT 12 o'clock"
"SPLIT UP!" Trixie yelled. The squadron separated into 2 groups, one is composed of Chester and Timmy and the other of Trixie and Tootie. Similarly, the 2 mystery planes that appeared on the radar also splits up. Immediately, Tootie heard a blaring sound on the cockpit and a red light is shining.
"Sheila, bank right!" Trixie yelled. Immediately, the two splits and releases chaff, metal strips used to try to confuse the radar signature of a radar-guided missile, and a missile swung towards the chaff cloud and outwards, where it exploded. None of the missiles hit.
"Miles, why didn't you say to use countermeasures on the mic?" Tootie protested.
"Remember our 'skill?'"
"Miles, Sheila, bogey on your tail!" Chester yelled.
"I'm on it!" Timmy said "WHAT FOX NUMBER IS… Oh yeah, Fox 3…" Timmy's AMRAAM locks on the enemy's tail and the enemy immediately rolls over and dives, losing the missile lock. Timmy followed suit and rolls over and dives. Chester said on the radio "Tim, I got this, just keep tracking him."
"Roger that!" Timmy follows the plane and he can't visually identify if it is a friend or foe. He said Fox 2, code for the heat-seekers, and Chester was about to fire when…
"THIS IS AWACS CONTROL, CEASEFIRE! CEASEFIRE! YOU'RE SHOOTING AT FRIENDLY TARGET!" A voice yelled from an adult with an English accent.
"This is Red 1, who are you?" Timmy asks the voice.
"Who else? I'm Arthur!" Britain shouted "White pair, what's wrong with you? And that's a friendly plane!" At that moment, a voice in which Timmy would recognize answered and replied. "Alright, AWACS to White 1, I thought we are under attack…"
"Stupid visual identification…" a voice in American accent said "I thought I was being chased by those annoying stealth birds…"
"Alfred, what are you…"
"Just call me Hero…" America said.
"And I'm Maple…" Canada replied.
"Alright, Maple, Hero, please explain all the details…" Chester said as the flight regrouped with the other Canada and America, flying an F/A 18 A right above them.
"This is a simulation on the air war that is supposed to happen on the Airwar right above Dimmsdale, California…" America explained. "You see, this server you got in is actually the military server connected to the main KND interface. Of course, we have to train our pilots to easily defeat those pesky stealth jets."
"So, why won't you use the F-22s for that?" Trixie asks them.
"The KND are the ones flying the F-35, PAK FA, and F-22 and they always show no mercy on the adult pilots…" Canada replied.
"And why would you fight against stealth jets? You are defeated way before you see them!" Trixie reasoned out.
"Simple: The OTLI uses stealth technology that has a lower class than the hero's…"
"AND WHAT MADE YOU FIRE A MISSILE TOWARDS ME!" Tootie yelled.
"We thought you are enemy decoys…" America said "Deception has been a very good tactic employed by the OTLI on a similar air battle before, and that part will be classified…"
"Guys, MISSILE LOCK!" Timmy yelled.
"This is White leader, identify yourselves. AWACS, identification please." America yelled. At that time no one is responding. All of their radars detected 2 missiles running towards them and at that moment, Timmy, Trixie, and Tootie banks towards each other, with the two girls going to the right and Timmy to the left, while releasing clouds of chaff. Three missiles went towards the intersection of their flight pattern and smashed towards each other and exploded in mid-air. The explosion is so strong that Chester's unsuspecting plane was hit by a metal piece on the left wing and begins to get on fire. Chester immediately ejects. The three, however, miraculously escapes.
"Hey, how are you able to…" America was interrupted when he heard 4 jets went pass below him.
"I have visual identification Hero…" Trixie said "F-35s with an unusual red H roundel."
"Turn to passive heat identification radar mode and let's get 'em…" America said. America rolls and dives his F-18 and begins to turn towards the enemy. The other three banks together to the right and the screen begins to darken to simulate the G-Force effect. Immediately, Trixie said Fox 2 and arms and locks her plane's sidewinder on an opposing stealth jet. However, it easily breaks loose and the enemy performs a dive. Thankfully, Tootie rushes in and quickly dives and switches to cannon mode while enduring the G effects. She fired a 1 second burst on the engine and a flame-out occurs, a situation where the engine begins to emit fire from behind. Immediately, the plane levels out and the virtual pilot bails out. Upon leveling, Tootie immediately receives a missile lock but Timmy quickly locates the enemy and arms his sidewinder and fires it. The enemy took notice of it and throws out flares and dodges to the left. The missile immediately misses and exploded from afar. However, Trixie took it as a chance and positioned for a gun kill from above. Her accurate aiming, which made her a lethal online layer in the WWII flight simulation game they are playing, shows up when her 1-second burst quickly made the opponent's right wing to be removed and the opponent's plane is on fire.
"DARN IT!" #1 yelled in their tree house playing the game connected in the server used by Timmy, Trixie and Tootie. He was the one shot down by Trixie. #4's plane is the one who got shot down earlier.
"I'll take care of that…" #2 said. He arms his heat-seeker on Trixie but amazingly, he got hit by a rogue missile.
"What in the world? I thought there is no one in this server that is supposedly not using stealth jets aside from us?"
"Nice job Maple… who are you again?" America asks.
"I'M CANADA!" Canada angrily yelled. "At least this gives me an advantage in this fight with my F-18…" At that moment, America was hit by a missile and he begins to spiral downwards in his burning F-18. He immediately ejects seconds before his plane exploded to smithereens.
"AMERICA!" Canada yelled. The F-35 didn't notice him and dives again and targets Timmy's plane. Immediately, Timmy banks to the right. The F-35 follows thru Timmys's turn. At that moment, a dashing F-16 piloted by Tootie cuts right in front of the following F-35 and made a quick burst that is not enough to stop the plane from not flying. That move she made nearly made an air collision. That thing she did, however, made the stealth jet break its stealth outline and made it partially visible to radar. Trixie arms his AMRAAM missile and fires it from afar. As expected, the enemy dodges it. This gives Timmy the chance to arm his heat seeker as he turns around and chase.
"Goodbye stealthy…" Timmy fires the missile and it immediately homes and the stealth plane was on fire while going down. They regroup and America ordered them to go home…
On the real world…
Germany can't believe the kind of teamwork the three exhibit, add to the fact that the three never relayed any radio messages to each other. Britain monitored it and he was smiling.
"That technique is what I call the Swarm Dome…" Britain said "Although the Wand Quartet got three kills using this method, they manage to show how important teamwork is in breaking down even the nerves of an ace…" At that moment, Britain shows a computer model Japan made moments earlier to track the movement of every jet and to simulate new movements.
"Now, I have here 3 Spitfires at different altitude spinning around three planes in different altitudes…" Britain said, showing three Spitfires and three Me-109s forming a dome in their flight pattern. "You know very well that a Spitfire has a drastic disadvantage when it comes to a vertical fight against a 109…"
"Yeah, I know that…"
"In this tactic, it could easily turn into an advantage. I'll label the Spitfires on the top as 1, the middle 2, and the bottom 3." Britain played the model and we could see that the Me-109 #3 chases Spitfire #2 who is climbing up but Spitfire #1 dives down and shoots 109 #3 down. 109 #1 sees this as an opportunity and positions on Spitfire #1 and Spitfire #1 just keeps on diving in front of Spitfire #3. Spitfire #3 zooms up a bit and shoots 109 #1 down. 109 #3 thinks that this is an opportunity and chases it, only to be shot down by the looping Spitfire # 2 from above. Germany saw this and he just laughed.
"That kind of cooperation is way beyond human limitation…" Germany said "Just to execute that requires a very impossible skill of human cooperation in the heat of combat…"
"That is if the pilots are independently thinking…" Britain replied. "However, the Wand Trio has one unique ability… it is their ability to combine their minds and cooperate as if they know the situation of the other one. This is however, limited by their field of vision."
"What do you mean by that?" Germany asks.
"Like how brain cells connects to one another to form one thought, the wands helps them to connect each other's mind to think the situation at hand. It also combines their vision and interprets them in a way that a third party would see them and from that, they will quickly analyze the strategy. In other words, they are able to think as if they are three persons in one mind."
"So you mean the exceptional skill they showed together is the ability of those hand-held instruments…" Germany said.
"That form of highly-advanced communication is originally designed to protect the wands from outsiders by having communication in case one is kidnapped. This is also the only way to unlock the wands' full potential. The mere fact that they are able to use it more and more is a sign that the only thing needed is a catalyst to start the next trial…"
Right after that…
Timmy looks much more comfortable as he and Trixie held their hands while walking down the hallway. Of course, Tootie is there, somewhat annoyed and just looking at the two. Also, Chester is near them beside Timmy. They are walking towards the section where Sanjay and Elmer are located when…
"Oh, look at there…" Tad noticed that the Trixie and Timmy are holding their hands together. Trixie immediately removes her hand and immediately reacted and said to them "You never saw anything, I mean, like, I would…"
"Sorry but this will soon spread…" Chad said, bringing out a very small hidden camera on Tad's chest pocket "Wow, I can't imagine THE most popular girl falling in love with…"
"For your information mister…" Tootie shouted and comes near Chad and "… Timmy just have the qualities that any girl would like…" At that same time, Cosmo, disguised as a green pen this time, just coughed. Tootie then continued "…SO THERE IS NO WAY THE MOST POPULAR Girl could fall in love with her!"
"Let me guess for two f-reasons, Fame and Fortune…" Tad replied. "Well, we have a very great informant saying that if that is not so, Timmy would have chosen…"
"KOLKOLKOLKOLKOLKOLKOLKOL KOLKOLKOLKOLKOLKOLKOLKOLKOLK OLKOL KOLKOLKOLKOLKOLKOLKOLKOLKOL KOL" something out there sounded.
"Um, I mean, we have to go then…" Timmy said "…Tootie, well, um, we should better fetch Sanjay and Elmer later. Trixie, thanks for the trip as hall monitor, goodbye!" At that moment, Chester, Tootie and Timmy runs away, leaving Trixie behind.
"Um, I have to go to the bathroom…" at that moment, even Trixie retreated as well.
"Um, what the…"
"What are you kids doing here?" a creepy voice said while showing of his dark, tentacle-like aura right behind Tad and Chad, while also revealing a pickaxe as if he is ready to destroy them. Goosebumps covered the two and they slowly turned around to reveal a dark, scary, ominous figure known as Russia. The two immediately fell on their knees and said "We would give you more money if you let us free…"
"I don't need your money…" Russia said "…I need your souls." The two boys yelled the way they called their mothers and fainted. Russia happily picks them up and placed them in a grocery cart being pushed by Lithuania and Estonia. From there, we could see that 4 more boys, including Francis, falling victim to Russia's powerful intimidate.
"These kids really don't know how to appreciate my work…" Russia said "Send them to Germany right now…"
"Bu-but sir…" Lithuania replied.
"DO YOU WANT TO BE NEXT?" Russia glaringly said. As expected, the two just followed Russia's glare.