//------------------------------// // The War // Story: Ace the beginning // by RoyalEquestrianairforce //------------------------------// Next Day, Flame Flyer and Sky Soarer (Now reverting back to Burner and Eclipse) were to return to base for mission briefing, "Right today, you will be taking down the fighters at Nightmare airbase right in the corner of the the N.L.R, you are to take them down to protect the bombers while they take down the radar sites and the Tornado GR4's will take down the S.A.M sites, operations will start at 1600 hours. Now a word of warning. There is a pilot out there that is so legendary, that even our aces cannot take him down, he goes by the name, Virus. The morale of the pilots was shred like paper, their faces forced to be worried, terrified. This is the Pilot burner encountered a couple of weeks back, she was lucky. Be careful in the skies, he's waiting for that perfect moment to strike." The wing commander then said, "Now lets get this war finished as fast as the one in ' 91!" The pilots scrambled for their jets. All the aircraft at the base fired up, making the base seem alive, first, the Typhoons went up to protect the AWACS and Joint STARS, which were the next batch to take off, then the Tornadoes, then the F-15's, with Burner going sixth. Fifteen minutes later Burner and her squadron were passing the 66th parallel, which divided the two countries. The demilitarized zone went on for a good 5 miles and the first town of the N.L.R is near the fence. The F-15's crossed the first town, which unknown to them, was defended by flak guns, as they learned when one of 24 strike eagles sent to destroy the runway, was ripped apart by a direct hit, with debris flying in all directions, all the F-15's broke apart from formation and dashed for the edge of town. One pilot on the radio said, "Well it can't get any worse than this!" It got worse, even though they were out of date, especially for the N.L.R, MiG-23 Floggers belted out of the mountains, there was 8 of them and one went for Burner, "Shit we have one on our tail Burner, do evasive maneuvers now! I know we have one on our tail Eclipse, hold on!" Burner turned a hard left, "Be careful Burner he might do a yo-yo! I know dammit, I'm going to set up a trap." Burner was still pulling a hard left, and saw that the flogger was doing an low yo-yo. Burner turned gently now and switched to her M-61, the MiG-23 was racing toward Burner, "Burner were going to get shot up! Shut up Eclipse, 3...2...1, air brake!" The Flogger shot by Burner, who was now chasing it, "Firing gun!" The MiG was gobbled up by the 20 mm rounds, the Flogger was engulfed by flames and falling out of the sky rapidly, "Wow what and outstanding piece of performing that was! I would give you a bow if I could Eclipse! This is Rapier, I have a bandit on my tail, requesting support! Burner here, roger that! Lets switch to A.M.R.A.A.M's. C'mon lock on dammit, yes lock on firing AIM-120! Bandit down! Thanks Burner, I would have been toast if it wasn't for you! Any time pal!" All but one MiG-23 was left and got onto their frequency, "MiG-23 pilot to F-15's I surrender, please, let me live. Alright, this is Dark ray, what is your name? Night shift. Okay Night Shift, I will escort you back to Equestria, but first, deplete your ammo. Right, here goes. I've now depleted all my ammo. Good, follow me then." The F-15's went on with no trouble to their target the F-15E's started their strafe runs, with long lines on SU-27's and SU-30's. The other F-15's watched the strafing run. It was raining at the airbase too with thick clouds making the base seem like an evil place to be. Whole piles of Flankers were flipping upside down and exploding into small pieces. Burner saw a hole in the cloud and there were three Flankers diving towards the F-15's with 6 R-73 missiles fired, one going for burner, the F-15 was screaming at them because of the missiles coming towards them, "Using Flares!" The missile whisked past her. Unfortunately 2 F-15's were shot down and the other 3 F-15's that were locked on used flares. "Burner, it is a pleasure to finally speak to you, I was impressed by your flying over Ponyville, now look at you, flying F-15's, who knows where you will be soon! Unfortunately for you that won't happen, for it's now time to kill you! Not unless I kill you first! I like your'e attitude! Anyway where are my manners, my names Virus! I know your name is Virus you bastard! Now that's not very nice is it? Hang on, what's this? An F-15 trying to kill me, I like this guys defiance!" Virus performed a Kulbit maneuver over the F-15 and fired an R-77, it hit the F-15, making it plummet to the ground, in pieces. "Now where was I? Oh yes I was just going to say, your'e not going back to Equestria, goodbye Burner! He fired his last missile, another R-77 at Burner, she went at the missile head on, "Don't eject yet Eclipse! I can evade it! Oh don't worry Burner it won't miss!" She waited until the last second and rolled hard right, the missile skimmed the belly of the F-15, Virus was amazed. "Impossible, well, at least I have my cannon to play with. Die!" The two pilots went head on with Virus jamming the remaining missiles Burner had, Virus rolled and was descending so he could fire Burner was ascending and firing, Burner missed but Virus hit the F-15, Virus took down the Port engine of the F-15 and ripped apart a tail plane. All of a sudden a new unfamiliar demon-like voice was heard on the radio, "Virus, return to base you need the fuel to get home Of course Nightmare Moon! Face it Burner, your'e just not good enough!" The transmission from the enemy ended and Nightmare airbase was in ruins, and for the other two Flankers they were easily destroyed by Sidewinders. "Eclipse are you okay? Eclipse respond, are you okay? She turned to see if he was okay but she saw he was covered in 30 mm holes, "Nooooooooo!" She was sobbing her eyes out with tears like waterfalls. She got back to base, with her aircraft on fire, she lost concentration and crash landed, she opened the canopy, and watched the fire trucks come up to the burning aircraft, With her eyes still watery. Burner tried to pull out Eclipse, the fire crew tying to take her away form the wreckage, but she fought them and managed to drag out Eclipse, she gave the motionless, lifeless body out with his head pointing backwards and shaking as she moved, but the fire crew pulled her away but she refused to resist this time. She collapsed and fell to the ground. Burner woke up at the base hospital, the next day, to find an unfamiliar face looming over her, she sat up and pulled the pony towards her. She started talking angrily, "What the Bloody hell do you want with me? I was the pilot who surrendered yesterday I..... You had bloody well have a reason why you are here or I will beat the crap out of you right here, right now!" The pony was in shock and gave a massive gulp, then the commanding officer walked in, "That will not be necessary Burner let go of him!" Burner was furious and pushed him away, "Now listen to him Burner, he has something important to tell you. Thank you sir, ahem now I have some info on Virus, where he is based at, where he refuels and when he scrambles. Okay he is based at midnight airbase, which is near the dark palace where Nightmare Moon lives. It is in the sector F8. Now he seems to scramble daily between 0900 and 1700 hours, although since the war started I have not seen him so he could possibly be scrambling before 0900 hours and past 1700 hours, he also refuels in the Lunar mountains a few miles north of Midnight airbase. That's really all I know, I don't know his weaknesses I have never done any combat practice with him. Well there is only going to be one result, and Virus shall die no matter the cost, that bastard killed my friend so I must avenge him.