Wild Blue Yonder Ch.2

Reaper (aka The Ribbon) x Camilla (aka The Butterfly Master) love story.

The Ace Combat franchise does NOT belong to me. It respectfully belongs to Namco Bandai and Project Aces. The plot in this Fanfiction is obviously non-canon and was written by me.

READ THE PREQUEL FIRST! (Title: Stargazing)

In this story, I'll be making it like what I think will happen when the story of Ace Combat Infinity continues. Except I added ReaperxCamilla in it. Also, I'm not sure about the real names of most of the characters (Omega, Viper, Reaper, etc.) So I'll keep using their callsigns instead. Hope you don't mind.

Note: Errors might be seen because of auto correct.


Chapter 2: Drops of Ulysses.

'The Scars that Ulysses left behind.'

-(*July 1999* Around the Bay Area of California, United States of America)-

(Reaper's POV)

My ears were already ringing from the loud noises of alarms and people screaming as it echoed all around me. The roar of fighter jets fly overhead as distant astroids fell from the twilight sky. I couldn't move as fear just froze my entire body. All I could do was watch as the asteroids were getting destroyed by air squadrons and other defenses like Stonehenge's barrage. Some of the pilots were even dangerously close to the asteroids and the explosions being caused by Stonehenge's explosive rounds. I could tell even the pilots and Stonehenge Workers were getting desperate to stop the overwhelming number of astroids to save innocent lives.

I felt my body get shoved repeatedly as citizens tried to head for the nearest shelter. US Soldiers did what they can to lead everyone to the shelter as the asteroids came closer to the surface. Children and babies were crying as they didn't know what to do or what was happening. However, I was the only one who wasn't crying. Just standing there without getting help from the soldiers due to how busy they were.

"Son!" I heard my father's voice call our from behind me as I felt his arms wrap around my body.

"Is he okay?!" I heard my mother's voice asked worryingly.

"Mom, Dad…" I spoke softly while watching the skies fall apart.

"Don't look, sweetie." My mom told me as she made my head face down. "Don't look up."

"What's going on?! I don't wanna die!" I cried.

"You're not going to die!" My father hugged me tightly as my mother did the same thing. "Everything will be fine. I promise."

"Where's grandpa?" I asked worryingly as my eyes scanned through the retreating crowd.

My father looked up at the sky and paid attention to an F-4E soaring around with the other planes, taking out as many asteroids as possible. I was confused to why he was paying attention to that certain aircraft, but my thoughts were interrupted when my mother forced me to look away.

"Grandpa will be okay. He's okay."

"Where is he?!"

"Son, listen to me!" My father shouted as the noises around me got even louder. "We got to worry about ourselves and these people right now! If you don't want to die, you need to stay with us!"

"We are not leaving grandpa outside!" I objected.

"Please listen! He'll be alright!" My mother cried as the sight of her dropping her tears pierced my heart.

"Just remember, son. You won't die if you stick with us! Just-"

*BOOM!*

The ground shook violently as everyone, including my parents and I, fell on the hard ground as an asteroid impact happened just a few miles away. My ears were ringing as my eyes were blinded by the bright light is caused. I panicked, making me crawl away from the impact and causing a huge problem. I didn't know where my parents were now.

"Mom! Dad!" I called out as I was able to hear again by just a little. However, it was back to the people screaming and crying again. The voices of my parents weren't heard from where I was at. All I heard was nothing but mass hysteria and destruction.

"Another asteroid!" One of the men called. "RUN!"

"This is the end!" Another man called.

"Mommy! I don't want to die!" A little girl cried hard.

"My baby! Where is my baby?!" A woman called out in distress.

I couldn't believe what was happening right now. All the noises, distress, and panic was making my mind fall apart. My vision was getting blurry from the stress and tears as I couldn't see clearly now.

"MOM! DAD!" I called out again, desperately.

Then I realized that I was just a few meters away from the shelter all of us were heading to. Finally, I saw my parents as they were being pushed around by the crowd. They were forced to wait near the doors as they were just kept being pushed by the crowd towards the entrance. Both of them fought desperately to get to me, but they were cut off as they looked up at the sky again.

I looked back at what they were looking at as the area was getting brighter. What I saw was an asteroid heading directly towards the shelter and it's entrance. This made people push them even harder as there was no chance to escape from the crowd. My dad began to use force to fight his way out as my mom began to cry.

"NO!" I cried as I began to run towards the entrance to save my parents.

But there was no chance for me to save them.

Mom…

Dad…

The impact sent out a huge shockwave that knocked me off my feet, and an extremely blinding light that prevented me from seeing how the impact went. My ears were ringing as I was unable to hear nothing. No cries, the alarms, or jets from the air. Just painful ringing as my body was numb from the huge force. My heartbeat was all I could feel. Then, my numbness began to subside, only for me to feel my body was in utter pain as I groaned and cried from how much it hurts. But what hurt the most was my heart after seeing my parents die like that in front of me.

I looked up at the sky while laying on the cold, dirty ground. More astroids kept falling as my body was numb, unable to feel the ground shaking and shockwaves from the impacts. The sight was like I was diving towards the sky full of stars. My small body was so weak, I was unable to get up and run away from an incoming fragment that was part of the one that killed my parents.


-(*20 Years Later/Present Day* Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates)-

I was finally awoken in the middle of the night after having such a horrifying nightmare. No, not a nightmare. It actually happened to me twenty years ago.

My body was shaking as if it was freezing in the room. I began to do breathing exercises to slow down my heartbeat. After experiencing that nightmare, or distant memory, I felt like crying, but I couldn't. I just sighed and got off my bed even though it was 3:45 AM.

While walking around the building, the halls were still empty as I was still in my sweatpants and tank top. I passed by my Commander's room, hearing him snore loudly through the door. I just continued to walk down the hall and reach the newly built balcony, facing the runway and the hangars where me and my squadron's planes were put in with Edge's right next to ours. Laying against the railing of the balcony, all I did was just look up at the dark sky with the city lighting coming from Abu Dhabi. Commercial planes landing or taking off from the skies immediately reminded me of what happened twenty years ago. I wasn't sure if it was because the planes looked like the bright Ulysses asteroids or because of the sight of their navigation lights flashing was like the fighter jets I saw that day.

After a few minutes, I shook my head to try and forget about that dream. But this has happened almost every week. So there's no way I can make it go away. So I went back inside to get a bottle of alcohol and went back outside. I'm not an alcoholic drinker, since I'm not much of a fan to it, but this is one of those times I feel like it'll calm me down. And I'm definitely not a smoker.

"Oi! Reaper!" I heard the voice of Omega call me out since I recognized his British accent. He leaned over the railing next to me and chuckled. "You're up rather early. What's up?" He asked with an energetic tone, even when it's this early.

"Just decided to cool myself down." I answered while lightly sipping my beer.

"It's kind of rare to see you drink alcohol. Something weighing you down?" He asked.

"Bad dream."

"Oh…" Omega understood what I was talking about, since this was the second time I told him. "Are you going to be okay?"

"Don't worry. I've had this dream many times and got over it in a few hours." I told him.

"Well, don't drink too much. You wouldn't want me to carry you to your bed as surveillance will see me doing that." He chuckled.

"Definitely not." I chuckled a little. "Hey, I've been meaning to ask, where were you during the Ulysses collision?"

"I was in Luton, Great Britain when it all started." Omega told me. "Seriously, it was complete chaos when my mum and dad tried to get me to the shelter. It was pretty bad."

"You're lucky you had your mom and dad carry you to the shelter. An asteroid almost hit us and made me get lost in the crowd. I saw my parents getting pushed to the shelter with me not even close to it. Then…" I sighed, "another asteroid struck directly at the entrance of the shelter, killing everyone. My parents included."

"Bloody hell…" Omega sighed. "Hey, even though I said this already, I still feel like I should say sorry for how much you had to go through with that."

"You don't need to apologize." I smiled. "So, you getting ready to liberate Kuwait City this week?"

"You bet I am!" He nodded.

"Remember not to tell anything to the USEAN soldiers when you get there."

"I kno-…wait, what's that supposed to mean?" He glared.

"You know…when you get shot down,…King Bailout."

"Belt up." He chuckled and punched my arm. "I'm on a roll for not being shot down after you joined up with the Bone Arrows, rookie."

"I'm not a rookie anymore. Already had to go through the growing pains, like what Viper and Goodfellow warned me about." I shrugged.

Me and Omega just talked in the balcony for around thirty minutes with the sun still not rising up from the horizon. The conversation was able to remove most of the dark aura running around my body from that nightmare. However, I still felt bad for Omega, even though his time of going in the shelter twenty years ago wasn't as bad as mine.

"So, are you going back to sleep?" Omega asked.

"I doubt it." I shook my head.

"Well," He gave a smirk and took out a wad of dirhams, the UAE's currency, "how's about you and I go on a stroll at the nearest food place? Maybe a little bit of chow will cheer you up."

"Are we even allowed to get off the base?"

"What are we? The squadrons from Area 51?" Omega laughed and nudged my arm. "We're Arrows. We don't really have that much rules as mercenaries as long as we stay out of trouble."

"I guess a little adventure around the area doesn't sound so bad. Plus the Commander said we won't really have anything tomorrow." I shrugged.

"Let's get going, Captain!" He ruffled my hair as he led the way out.

The reason why I decided to accept his offer is because I was feeling too tensed after having that dream. Camilla was lucky to not have seen what I've seen when the skies fell apart.

I sighed. All I wanted to do is to get all this negativity off my chest. And I mean all of it.

"Thinking of meeting some women here? Whether it'd be tourists or locals?" Omega teased and nudged my arm.

When he asked me that, the first thing to come up in my head was Camilla. I blushed by the thought of when me and her kissed in the satellite.

"Is that a yes?" He snickered.

"I don't know." I shook my head. "But if you plan on doing it, try not to annoy the girls by being a motormouth like last time." He smirked.

"Come on. I don't talk that much."

"I don't know, "King Bailout". Too much words come out of your mouth more than the Mauser BK-27 on your Typhoon." I joked.

"Hey!" He laughed and playfully punched my arm.


(I deeply apologize for the long wait due to mid-terms before and upcoming finals along with me working on RWBY: The Recidivist. Anyway, I hope you found this chapter okay. In the outline, I decided to show how Reaper lost his parents and was raised by his grandfather, a civilian pilot. Anyway, stay tuned for Chapter 3! I promise the wait for it will not be long as last time.)

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