Chapter 42 Discovering a weakness

NMD1MU1 Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, USA 8:00 pm

"4… 3… 2… 1…" America counted down as the C-130 bringing the spoils of the previous skirmish is being delivered. The area of the engagement earlier is properly cleaned-up and the countries, alongside the entire armed forces of the NATO and Russia. All of them are now willing to counter this mind-blogging threat that uses stealth technology and a possible invasion scenario. They experience this one first hand before which nearly caused them the entire weapons stockpile they have while 'fighting' the gigantic Destructinator. This time, however, they are more prepared and are more willing to cooperate just to survive. About the same time, Japan and Britain appeared out of nowhere. Britain still has no clue how Japan could easily teleport to the Pokémon World connected to their dimension, but Japan respects how politics is done there.

"Yo, Britain…" America said "Have you got the tactics they employed?"

"Surprisingly, they have much stricter Rules of Engagements…" Britain said "…they require the use of more cannon usage and less missiles for identification reasons. They even rarely use the world's Sidewinders they called the AIM-9 Seviper…"

"The reason why they have a hard time tackling down the stealth jets last time…" Japan replied. "If it were not for us altering the software on the spot, the enemy would manage to eliminate all of them." At that moment, the tactical command head of the 57th wing came to them and talked on how to counter the threat. Britain just gave him the file of the tactics employed by the other world to defeat the stealth. Japan made sure that Unova gave the tactics without the usage of Pokémon and he change several terms in relation to their world's equivalent. The commander, however, just laughed.

"This is ridiculous." The commander said "But I do appreciate the assumptions stated here. Whoever made this one must wake up to the truth that guns are obsoletes…"

"You're not getting the point here…" Japan commented "…I do appreciate your comment Mr…" A very loud jet engine sounded on the background and it came from the F-22 doing trials on a possible future combat scenario landing on the airstrip. When the sound died down, Japan continued "… but if ever we need to defeat this threat, we must work with all tactics that we could to counter the jet's stealth technology."

"Hey look guys!" America shouted. Immediately, Britain and Japan came near him and they saw the broken-down parts of the alien stealth jet that seems to be shot down by engine failure from a 'cannon shot'. The man in charge of the classified freight said to them that this is a rare specimen as the other 10 left on the ground are thoroughly obliterated. He also exclaimed that there are 16 confirmed missile hits and this excludes the ones dealt upon by the KND (codenamed 'annoying kids' by US military).

"This reminds me of the time I captured a Zero to develop the F6F Hellcat." America said. Japan inspected the part that contains the cockpit and it was surprisingly small. From here, he deducted that the wingspan about 35 ft. wide and the length is 47 ft. This was instantly rejected by the man in charge.

"Don't let the small cockpit fool you…" he commented. "This one is actually as big as the F-16 except that it has a much longer wingspan. It was designed to be a fighter-bomber and we are going to assemble it here. However, we don't have the right person to pilot this thing for a test flight."

At that moment, they detected a weird-looking mini-van hovering over the horizon above them and landing vertically.

"It's the annoying kids…" the commander said. When they successfully landed, a 5 kids came out of the van and they are clothe in the way the locals of Nevada would wear.

"You always want to try and sabotaged the base…" the commander calmly said. He then gave out a sigh and said "Alright, what are you here for?"

"The KND vows to protect kids even to this point. We don't want to repeat what happened several months ago when we are about to establish Operation L.A S.T. R.E.S.O.R.T." the kid acting as the leader said.

"What's that?" America asks them.

"Last Action Supposed To Result Ending Sooperbly Overpowered Robotic Terminator…" the leader replied "We where the first to establish contact with the Darkness. Back then, we don't label it as a huge threat because it didn't attack the moon base like the Pictonians. However, it was too late when we found out that he was after a kid. We waited for its return the second day and it did come. We launched fighters but got into a crazy fight against different robots. We don't know why the governments on earth are not reporting to us even if we established a deal that we will cooperate if a child is involved or whenever Father appeared like what happened on Operation Waiting Hazardously In Timing Energetically which supposedly led him and his cohorts underground. However, we learned a day latter that they where enslaved by his agent robot. It was defeated by a kid who will now hold the crucial part of what we dubbed Operation L.I.G.H.T."

"Which stands for?" the commander instigated.

"Lighting Inside Giant Heartless Terminator, done to escort the kid with 2 other kids who hold the key to defeat him."

"Details in the NATO conference via internet." Britain said.

"You mean, you kids will join what we dubbed as the Operation Stardust?" the commander said.

"Affirmative." The serious young girl replied.

"So that's what the higher command is telling me." After that, the adults quickly assembled the stealthy flying machine and it was bigger than expected. It is about the size of the F-16 with a much larger wingspan. Despite of the similarities with the F-117, it was only about 14 feet tall from the wheel to the end of the tail, and the small pilot cockpit was actually more of that of a B-2 stealth bomber which was supplemented by a very large bomb bay. The missile compartment on the sides can contain up to 4 missiles. The engine is unusual. The opening starts on the sides as all stealth jets would. However, the exit is unusually large and there are 12 nozzles all around the plane. The tail design is like those of the F-117 while the ailerons are basically hydraulically-powered. It was powered by 2 engines and has a single 20mm cannon in front of the cockpit area.

"Dude, this plane is different from the F-117…" America said "…however, the cockpit is not even designed for aerial combat. The view from above is very limited. Seems like this plane is extremely radar-dependent."

"We need something to power up the plane's engine…" Britain said. At that moment, the mystery KND sector's 2x4 technology officer, the same girl earlier, went towards the engine and fixed it.

"This plane is minimally damage by a rubber band." the kid said. "I did a patching job using KND patches and replaced several damaged parts in the fan disk. Our technology ensures that this plane still retains the stealth characteristics it has. However, this plane now belongs to KND."

"Wait, why would…" the commander was being silenced by the girl.

"The pact says that any technology that was fixed by KND members now belongs to KND to avoid future wars that will bring misery to several children again. This rarely happens, but it's better if we test its stealth characteristics." At that moment, the girl rode the plane and was led to the runaway. The others immediately went to the control tower and a female soldier offered the girl a parachute, which she accepted. When it was launched, they learned that it is capable of thrust vectoring when the pilot applied the nozzles down below.

"This is a pathetic plane." she commented "Anyone could make a surprise attack from above and this plane has a very low 6 o'clock visibility. The forward and side view was also hindered. Whoever designed this plane made sure that it prioritized stealth, not performance."

"What are the nozzles for?" Britain asks "Is it for maneuverability?" the pilot now moves the plane forward and the radars of the air base is being activated. At that moment, they noticed something unusual.

"This plane exhibits a high infrared radar signature…" an officer said "…it is perfectly stealthy on all sides, all except the engines firing at the rear."

"The report made sense after all…" Britain said "…it was easily taken down by sidewinders and are easily detected by heat signature-reading radar."

"Even the pilots of the F-22 earlier said that stealth is an understatement to this plane." The commander replied. The KND agent maneuvered the plane and said "This is the most unmaneuverable aircraft I met. I can't override the nozzles as I would on a KND machine and it was very hard to maneuver. If this where in a fight on a non-stealth equal terms, I would rather pilot the first variant of the F-4 Phantom."

"That's contrary from what other pilots said." the commander replied "They engaged an enemy who could turn on the rate similar as that of the F-15."

"That's strange…" America said "…they could not make another variant that quick."

"Anyways…" the pilot said "…I looked at the data found on the software and it states that whoever piloted this has achieved two kills in the shape of… a Pokeball? Anyway, the model is called the F-1 626R MK1, a space-superiority fighter that also somewhat explain the design. These planes are not suitable at fighting on a planet's atmosphere and its survival on fighting within the planet's atmosphere is stealth. Whatever planet this world went, they don't have anti-stealth capabilities yet."

"Which gives us valuable information." the commander replied. "Aside from that, is there any information of another variant?"

"Yes. They termed it F-1 PR. No more details."

"If they have another variant of the plane, then that means we are in deep trouble." Britain said. "I would presume that it would be design to compete with our technology."

"I will send this to the Moonbase after I have a visit to Sector M."

"Alright, Sector NE, job well done." the KND leader said. "Anyways, we are designing a prototype system that is the based on the stealth jet detector we have installed on the moon located on space sector 7428664267. For now, we are testing on the improvements on the simulator network."