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// The dawn of an ace 
// Story: Ace the beginning 
// by RoyalEquestrianairforce 
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The birth of flame flyer was on the 16th April 1998 in Manehattan hospital she was a black Pegasus with hair that stuck backwards and looked just like a flame with red, orange and yellow sections and her eyes were a fiery red. Her father worked with the police and her mother at a bakery, they also had a 3 year old brother who had a fascination with the navy. When Flame Flyer was taken home for the first time, there were lots of toys waiting in her room to be played with, she was routing through all her toys when she came to a toy plane, it was green on top and red on the bottom and had bright blue windows. Every day she would play with this plane flying it in her right hoof all around the house sometimes knocking things over in her path! If she wasn't playing with her toy, she would usually be flying around and usually crashing into things.

Two long years had gone by and Flame Flyer was taken to her first air show, she liked the fighters that displayed especially the Equestrian F-15 c's the Ultimate of the eagle fighters, she loved the roar of the two engines on afterburner, the sound filled her ears but she didn't care how loud it was unlike the other fillies who would keep on crying. Because she liked the F-15 so much she was gifted a model of one. When she went home, Flame flyer would just constantly stare at the model all day and all night she would just keep on smiling and kept on focusing on it totally unaware of what was going on around her.

Five years had flown by and flame flyer graduated to the R.E.A.F cadets flying Cessna 182's where she started getting cocky. When other pilots were trained on the basics like roll, pitch and yaw, Flame Flyer was already doing loops and barrel roll's and flying under low bridges scaring her instructors to a point where they wouldn't fly along with her. After many dangerous flights, Flame Flyer was told to go to the Commanding officer's room, he didn't seem happy, "What do think your'e doing pulling off dangerous stunts like that? The Cessna 182 is not designed for your  style of flying is it?!" 
Flame Flyer replied with a strong serious face,"No sir!"
The C.O replied back, "Exactly, that is why I'm pleased to say were moving you to 430 ace training squadron because I think there is potential in you and there are aircraft that are born for your style of flying and you can do it 6 times faster! No pony ever has gone to 430 squadron at your age, you will be challenging some of the top pilots in all of Equestria! In a few minutes time there should be C-23 coming to take you to Norwood air base, good luck!" 
Flame Flyer kept her face stiff and replied,"Thank you sir!" 
The C.O replied,"Now get out of my sight!" When she left the office her bottom jaw dropped as far as it could  and she flew, did a little loop and let out a large,"Hurrah!"

Twenty minutes later, the C-23 Sherpa touched down at Norwood air base. Flame Flyer was greeted by a Tornado GR-4 with its wings fully swept back at an altitude of about 200 feet, she got really excited. Norwood air base was next to the coast and had two runways with a length of about 9,000 feet for the north/south facing one and about 8,500 feet for the north west/east east facing one. Norwood air base was also the primary airbase for Lancaster bombers during World war two then being replaced by the bigger more powerful Avro Lincoln after the war, which was then replaced by the Avro Vulcan. The Squadron for the bombers, (672 squadron) moved to Harmony air base, 23 miles south west of Norwood air base and 4 miles away from Ponyville. 672 squadron currently operates B-52's, as it is one of few intercontinental bombers left in the world.

Flame Flyer was immediately told to go to the briefing room, there she found the C.O for the base who was to be given a tour of the base, "Welcome to Norwood air base, this is one of 27 air bases in Equestria. Now Flame Flyer, time for your tour of the base, first to the west hangars." The C.O and Flame Flyer stepped into a Land Rover Defender 110 and were at the west Hangars within an instant, they stepped out and the C.O started talking, "Equestria may seem a peaceful place but actually were at a constant state of alert from multiple countries up north, these countries are the New Lunar Republic, Nationalist Republic of Sombra and Changelingland, so we must keep on top in power of these countries, at these hangars, we have E-3 A.W.A.C.S, which stands for Airborne warning and control system."
After an hours tour, Flame Flyer was directed to her training aircraft, a Hawk T.1, noted for it's agility and in fact needs less maintenance than any other aircraft in the world. Flame Flyer loved the aircraft and gave it a big cuddly hug and then remembering that the C.O was right behind her she turned and gave him a salute.

Flame Flyer was back in briefing and now went by the name Burner, her colleague went by the name Eclipse, a colt who was brown and had black hair that spiked forward, he was always wearing sunglasses. The C.O briefed on her mission, "You will be flying today over Ponyville as you will be joined by Rainbow Dash for some Practice combat you will not be permitted to go over 10,000 ft on this mission, you will be joined by Bullet Rider and Rupture, good luck!"
Bullet rider was a Colt with a mane like Iceman's hair from Top Gun and his fur was a bright yellow he liked to chew gum whereas Rupture had no mane and had red fur, his face always looked like an evil genius. 
Burner got into her Hawk with a solid face with Eclipse right behind her. Burner and Bullet rider were on the runway and gave their Rolls Royce Adour turbofans up to maximum thrust and were on their way.

After 7 minutes, Burner and Bullet rider were over Ponyville with rainbow dash waiting for them on a cloud, Pinkie Pie, Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, Applejack and Fluttershy cheering for Rainbow Dash with Twilight and Pinkie being Cheerleaders! A.T.C cleared them to engage. Immediately, Rainbow Dash went down with Burner and Bullet rider doing a split s maneuver to get her. Next, Rainbow Dash thought it would be funny to go low level past her friends and through Ponyville and to try and get the pilots to not follow her but Burner followed Dashie and gave Bullet rider orders," Bullet rider go around the outskirts of Ponyville and try to flank Dashie"! Bullet rider broke off and wnt around Ponyville. Rainbow Dash shot past her friends nearly knocking them off their hooves Applejack replied," My sweet Celestia, I hope she don't do nothing like that again, well at least it can't get any worse!" 
Of course the ponies forgot about Burner who now went screaming past their heads! Fluttershy got so scared that she ran away faster than ever before and Applejack's hat was blown away about 50 feet! Applejack then said in a calm way," well that was noisy", and fell onto her back with a big sigh.

Rainbow Dash flashed through Ponyville and straight past Derpy who was staggered and then walked backwards and knocked a colt into the river, he was angry and Derpy said," Sorry"
but she flew away and didn't bother to help him out of the river then Burner went through and the jet wash made every loose object fly away. Coming out of Ponyville, Rainbow Dash kept her straight course and when she started going she said to herself," Too Easy", but then she turned and saw Bullet Rider come towards her and Bullet Rider shouted ," Rainbow Dash you have been flanked, yeah!"
Rainbow Dash went to a cloud and sulked," How did I not see him, I'm the best flyer in all of Equestria how how how?"
She started to break tears. Then Bullet rider started talking to Burner, "You sure know some tactics girl!"
Burner replied, "Do you know any?"
She said this with full confidence. Then Eclipse said," you just got owned there Bullet rider!"
and Rupture agreed, "I must agree, you got owned there!"
Bullet rider replied to Burner, "Ha ha ha ha, I'll get you next time, anyway lets head back to the barn!" 
Bullet rider kept his smile for good 30 seconds. 

Burner let out a smile and then looked forward again, her smile was wiped off her face, when she saw a dark blob in the distance, "Hey Bullet rider whats that in the distance?" 
Bullet rider scanned for this blob and then finally got a glimpse, "what the hell is that? Is it an F-15?"
Rupture said, " The F-15 pilots are working in the far east so it can't be an F-15"
Eclipse asked, "How about F-18's?"
Rupture replied, "no, all F-18 pilots are off duty today!"
Then Burner, saw an orange light envelop the strange aircraft she new what it was, " Crap, missile, and it's heading towards you Bullet Rider, Eject I repeat, Eject!"
They managed to eject about 3 seconds after their aircraft got destroyed, they were just about safe distance from the explosion. Burner quickly alerted the tower "Tower, we have an enemy aircraft over Ponyville request support, Bullet rider and Rupture have ejected to safety!"
The tower responded, " Roger that Burner, alerting Q.R.A pilots and an S.A.R helicopter to pick up Bullet rider and Rupture, estimated time of support is 2 minutes, can you make out what aircraft it is?"
Burner replied after a few seconds, "Oh no, it's an  N.L.R Su-35 Flanker I repeat, an N.L.R Su-35 Flanker!"
The tower replied, " Do as much evasive maneuvering as you can!" 
Burner put an angry face on and was ready to evade. 

Burner went up slightly and then went down to confuse the pilot, she pulled a 7'g turn left and then a 7'g right, the Flanker went down at blistering speed and was on her tail Burner entered the gorge with the Flanker on her tail, she though she could get away because of how narrow the gorge is and how small her aircraft is but she was wrong, the Flanker followed her and she was flying on the edges of the gorge switching sides  to confuse the lock on of the Flanker. The Flanker pilot switched to the gun and was firing it, Burner was doing left barrel rolls for some time until the pilot became used to this and she flew up out of the gorge almost vertical. The Flanker pilot watched as Burner evaded the path of bullets, the Flanker pilot pulled a transition to ascent so hard that pressure clouds formed on the wings and they bent upwards so much they looked like they were going to break, and slammed the afterburners fully on, then, Burner had the Q.R.A pilots on her channel saying, " We are 2 miles from your current position, hold on !" Her confidence grew a little after she heard the pilots on the radio but there was still not a lot of it in her.

The Flanker had cleared the gorge and Burner did a quarter loop right to put him off, then the Flanker pilot saw two blips on the radar, the pilot scarpered and banked left and wasn't seen again. The Q.R.A Typhoons escorted Burner home, there was so much sweat coming off her face, it was enough to fill an entire lake. Burner was coming in to land and nearly crashed after using her concentration on the Su-35. Burner went to the mess hall with Eclipse for a drink, then an officer came in, dressed up in his best uniform, went over to Burner and Eclipse gave them orders, " The C.O would like to see you his office A.S.A.P, we have a vehicle waiting outside to take you there." 
The dashing officer escorted them to the car and the officer went back into the mess hall.

When they entered, Bullet Rider and Rupture had been dismissed and the C.O waited for Bullet rider and Rupture to leave before talking, " I've never ever seen a pony like you Burner no pony has manged to evade a Flanker in an aircraft like the Hawk, I see you don't even need to train in Hawk T.1's, so after one flight, I'm moving you two to 98 squadron where you will be against the big guns in F-15's you will go down in history books as no pony ever has transferred to this squadron after 1 flight. Briefing on your next mission is after the weekend, for now your off duty, congratulations!" Burner and Eclipse then said together in a calm attitude, " Thank you sir !" The C.O replied with, " Yeah whatever, go on get out of here, and I wish you luck!" 
They both walked out with a salute.