> Eddie Whirlwind: Rise of the Storm > by Kitsune_Kenshi > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chapter 1: A New World Through a Storm > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- My name is Eddie Whirlwind, you boys already knew that, so what's the point of introducing myself? Whatever, get to the topic... So, two months, twenty days, 37 minutes and 12 seconds after my birth, days had been great. I just passed my testing period last Friday, Doctor Whooves, my 'dad' told me to wait for the orders from the United Nations, but they haven't said a single shit yet. Welp I'm bored to death, Doctor Whooves did mentioned this to the United Nations, and after some discussions, I've been assigned to do some patrol over the battlefronts on Earth, since the Hydras were suspected to be there. The exact location is remained classified, but I can still tell you a little; somewhere in the United States. Sine this is my first mission, the USAF send in some escorts around me, the best they've got, "Viper" Squadron. Classic o' F-16s, along with two Raptors. But I had to keep my air speed around Mach 1, so those slow pokes can keep up. No offense to some Vipers and Raptors fans. We're patrolling around 10,000 feet above the ground, except for me and the two Raptors, the enemy radar can still gain locks on the Vipers, if that happens, throw em' some Hellfire missiles, got plenty. Viper 1, callsign Mover, Captain of the Viper Squadron, he and I have been good buddies ever since my first show case. And my only actual friend who doesn't get shoo away by some military people whenever I have to leave for military duties. As Princess Twilight would say, I need some friends, LOT more. But no one is like me; See, I'm made of steel, okay maybe part steel along with some nano organs, I'm nearly unbreakable, immortal. I think the only things that can kill me are from getting rusty or getting banged by a nuke. Which were not happening since I get repaired and checked every Friday plus the humans aren't gonna use atomic weapons that easily these days. What I want to say is, if I made a living friend, they would die someday, while I can only sit there and watch as my friends passed on. I talked to twilight about this, but she hasn't experienced any of that yet, and Celestia is at Silver Shoals, but I didn't get breaks from my bosses yet. Shaking the depressing thoughts away, I continued on scanning my thermal visions on the grounds below, then Mover decided to speak up. "Still stuck on the 'making friends' stuff?" he asked. "Sure as hell that wouldn't get outta my wired head for some time." I replied. "You know you can't stay alone for the rest of eternally right?" Mover asked. "Well, there's no one immortal except Twilight, Celestia, and Luna, if I make too much friends, then they will die one day. And it'd be too much pain to watch." I sighed. "Amen brother..." Mover muttered. Then it happened so quickly, we all heard a sudden beep of radar lock, I went to my thermal vision and saw an enemy SAM site with a spinning radar and a missile pointing straight at them. Then it fired. All I heard was Mover shouting 'decoys' while shooting flares out and barrel rolling off, the others were in time to roll off but found out that the missile isn't going for any of them. It's coming at me. Immediately I turned on my Jamming system while performing some high-G maneuvers. By the way, all can perform any maneuvers, because I'm don't have blood, so I can't get Black-outs or stamina from negative dive or high-G turns. The SAM missile whooshed passed me, missing my body just by at least 3 feet away. However, the missile lock warnings did not stop just yet. I was told by my wanting system that three missiles are coming my way, if this is a normal pilot, ejection is the best choice, but I'm not gonna let some missiles shoot me down. My Jammers are still working, but those missiles were faster and more maneuverable, not SAMs, some S-500s! Those big boys are nearly impossible to dodge, Jammers or flares won't do much against it, all I can do right now is to try my luck using extreme maneuvers. Suddenly, I heard distant boomings coming from up ahead, at first I thought it was the anti-air fires, but I then realized that the only AA weapons around this area are the missiles. As the boomings got closer, I saw a massive thunder cloud is approaching me, lighting flickered as thunder roared. Then an idea popped up in my head. It's risky, but it's worth a try; fly straight into the storm cloud, maybe the wind and the electricity in the storm cloud would be the decoy for me. I then changed my flight route and flew straight into the massive dark marshmallow of lighting. Behind me, I can hear a loud explosion, it worked! The S-500 missile was jammed by the lighting and was shattered by the string blowing wind. But then that means I'm now the target of the lightings. Thunders roared around me, trying to zap and blow me into scraps, but I knew better, time to go! I immediately went for the exit of the massive mad marshmallow. Suddenly, the thunder roars and lighting flickers faded, the sounds of rain sputtering ceased as well. I was wondering what happened, then my radio connection with the HQ suddenly broke off, what's left of it were the buzzing of disconnected radio. "This is A.I Cyber Jet Pony Eddie Whirlwind, does anypony read?" I asked through the radio, switching channels and calling over again, trying to revive messages, sadly, the radio connection died off completely. That's strange, I have the most advanced satellite radio system on me, which can connect to the HQ no matter where my location is around the world... If the radio broke off... Oh Celestia... I just fucking realized I... Am no longer on Planet Equis no more. Fuck. FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! Can this get any worse?! Fate answered. The cloud in front of me suddenly cleared, revealing something I was NOT expecting to see at all. An airfield, and from the look of it, it looked almost like the ones from World War 2, I couldn't have being accidentally transported back in time to WW2... Have I? Suddenly, I heard buzzing from my 3 o' clock, I cautiously searched through my radar to see the boogie, it was kinda small, and the speed doesn't match the speed of a jet as well. A Propeller plane? As the boogie got closer, I finally got a pretty good look on it... No, it's a... Her! It was a mare, I thought it was a Pegasus, but her wings aren't flapping at all... It looked almost like... A Plane pony? No! I'm the only plane pony on this planet... Wait, I'm not on Planet Equis anymore... Maybe I've entered an alternative world similar to mine? Then, I heard a female voice shouted from the boogie... Or a P-40 Warhawk to be specific. "Whoa! I haven't seen anything like you before? Uh... What are you?" the plane mare asked. But I decided to stay silence, she may be an enemy, if she does anything hostile, I will not hesitate to shoot her down... But... She looked so innocent... I can't get upset with her too much. No, looks can be a trick, I kept my distance with the unknown mare. "Hello? Can you talk?" she asked again, more of curious this time, now she's at least 10 feet from me, and getting closer. Finally, I had enough. "Ok, that's enough distancing lady, personal space." I said, surprising her. "Oh, so you do talk." she said, I tried not to roll my eyes, but I couldn't! God damn it! She looked super innocent! "Duh!" Was the only thing I can say. But she wasn't affected by my tones, instead she's getting more excited, reminds me of a certain pink hippogriff back home. "Let's start with some introduction; I'm Amelia Wind, you can call me Amelia or Amy, and you are..." she began. Seeing there's no chance of declining, I sighed. "Name's Eddie, Eddie Whirlwind; Equestrian A.I Hypersonic Cyber Jet Pony, chased by a surface to air missile, lost in a storm, nearly got roasted by lighting bolts, flying out finding myself in whatever the place is, and meeting you." I said in one breath, surprising Amelia. "Whoa! Cool! Wait what's a surface to air missile? What's Hypersonic? And why do you look so different then most of us?" Amelia's questions nearly made me froze and drop form the mid-air. She don't know what a Surface to Air missile is? Never heard of Hypersonic?! WHY AM I DIFFERENT?!?! "I take that you don't have those stuff around here?" I asked for confirmation, which she nodded rapidly, the propeller on her muzzle dancing happily, I wonder how she talks with that thing spinning so fast in front of her muzzle. Hmm... To be honest she looked kinda cute with that curious expression on her face... "Nope! Well at least not in my town, there's United States Air Force and other jets around." she said, I nearly stopped again. "Wait this is United States?" I asked again. "Duh!" Okay, so I'm in an alternative world of Earth with they each locations as the one back home, but instead of humans it's populated by a bunch of plane and jet ponies. Due to her eye color and shape of mouth I guess they don't have A.I Cyber Jet ponies around here. "Uh... Not to sound rude but... Can you take me to your hanger?" I asked, "My fuel is running a bit low form all the maneuvering I did before, plus my viable Cycle engines are over-heating a bit... If you don't mind." To my surprise, "Of course! I haven't have visitors since Midnight joined the USAF!" she happily replied. "Okay... Who's Midnight?" I asked. "Oh she's one of my best friends." she replied happily, I winced at the word 'friends', she noticed. "Are you okay? Are your engines beginning to overheat? You sure you can fly back without me escorting?" She asked out of... Concern? Huh, she sounded almost like Fluttershy or Twilight. Why did she cared about me so much when we just met? I have to ask her when we get back to her hanger. "Nah, I've been through worst, I'm fine." I polity declined her offer, she nodded by still kept her conceding gaze over me as we flew over towards her hanger. AND THE SEQUEL IS OUT! Those arts above doesn't belong to me, I found most of them in deviant art and Pinterest. Though the characters names were made up by myself. Enjoy, leave comments, positive criticisms, and tell me how to improve! Thank you for your supporting! Eddie out!