Ace Combat: Shadow War

Chapter 8: New Addition

Zilla's POV

After leaving the stockade, I couldn't shake her off my mind, honestly, I didn't want her to stay in there. Maybe just maybe I could offer her to join us, besides I haven't told anyone this but it's hard to fly without a WSO, maybe I could get her be my WSO. Anyway, we were walking to the hangar to do what we were originally going to do, clean up the hangar.  

3rd Person POV

On the cold and damp fortress of Megalith, the super fortress was now more powerful than last time with hundreds of anti-aircraft weapons on constant watch, two tall towers that resembled miniature Excalibur's that rested next to Megalith, and behind Megalith laid the world's largest air base that was just recently finished but from the air it looked like a city which it kind of was considering it had dozens and dozens of factories that created jets, weapons, and advanced pieces of weaponry, it also had hundreds of buildings that were storehouses, vehicle depots, fortresses, and all the essentials.

Inside the airbase and inside a hangar that housed D00M's Fenrir that had just got a new paint job, with a dark grey body and three crimson lines on each wing. D00M had been working hard ever since he started the organization, he remembers it like it was yesterday, the organization was very small consisting of only like 30 people that didn't do much but talk politics and then in a snap of a finger, it became an organization that is working hard on creating a new world order with a staggering number of not 3 million but now 5 million people.

D00M felt that It was time for his real plan to begin, everything was in place and ready.

D00M called for Krigs, so he can drive him to Megalith itself. A few minutes later Krigs pulled up in front of D00Ms hangar in a black SUV, once D00M hopped in Krigs was off. "So, are you ready my friend for the plan to start" D00M asked, Krigs chuckled "You know I am, and I can't wait to get in the air" D00M raised an eyebrow "Speaking of flying, how's your plane? It's a Nosferatu, right?" D00M asked "Yep it's a Nosferatu and its ready to take the skies" Krigs with confidence, "Good my friend" D00M said.

Once the SUV stopped next to an entrance into Megalith, D00M stepped out and thanked Krigs. D00M entered the building and walked to his office to which he sat down and before he initiated the plan, he had to call two places.

"Intolerance is everything ready?" D00M asked in a dark tone "Reaper sir, fortress intolerance is ready" the commander of Intolerance said sternly, "When my command is given, fire at the intended targets".

"Chandelier, is everything ready?" D00M asked again in a dark tone "Reaper sir, Chandelier is fully operational and ready to go" commander of chandelier said, "Excellent, when my command is given, fire at the intended targets".

D00M hung up the phone and sighed, opening a drawer and pulling out a timer, he turned the hand and set the timer to hours till he gives the order to fire. He set down the timer and his face settled into a cold dark and emotionless face as he waited for what was to come.

Warfare's POV

I awoke to a lightly lit room, I sat up quickly and remembered that I took a nap, I stood up and stretched and proceeded to step outside the barracks to the early sunset, I looked towards our hangar and saw the lights on and faint music coming from the hangar. I walked over to the hangar and peaked my head inside to see my friends just vibing with low music, drinks, and each other's company but one thing I noticed was that Zilla wasn't there. I walked inside and Digital saw me "There he is, awake from his needed rest" Digital said, and everyone turned to see me, they smiled brightly and waved me over, I took a seat and had to ask, "Hey guys where did Zilla go?" I asked and Remo answered, "He's went to go persuade the MP to let the pilot he guided down go" I raised my eyebrows at that "Have you seen what they look like?" I asked and Remo continued "Yeah we have, it's a woman in her early twenties, a bit sassy" I chuckled and thought for a second, I wonder if Zilla likes her.

Then as if on cue, a "hey guys" entered our heads and we turned to see Zilla with an admittedly pretty woman behind him, she kept her head low as she went pass me and sat down next to Zilla. There was a short silence then Zilla spoke up, "Would you like a drink?" asked her "Um... sure" she said, and Peralta grabbed a drink and tossed it to Zilla who caught it and handed it to her. "So, what's your story?" I asked her, she looked at me and cleared her throat "Well for short, I was assigned with that attack force, shot by an EML and survived, then someone in a X-02 strike wyvern escorted me down to landing" she said nonchalantly "But whoever saved me... I gotta thank him" she said taking a drink, Star laughed "Well you're in luck ma'am, he's right there" Star then pointed to Zilla who nervously smiled, she looked at him "Thank you and I mean it" she said and Zilla nodded "no... no problem" I looked at Zilla and her and noticed that both were slightly blushing, very faint but if you looked close enough you can see it. I looked at everyone else and no one seemed to notice, AYO, WHAT THE FUCK!? Was what I yelled in my head.

I was still looking at them and then looked away, this is incredible to me. "May I ask, what's your name" Somewhat asked and I took a drink of my water, she sighed "Fine, if you guys must know, its Laura Foulke" the last part made me choke on my water and spit it out, I breathed heavily to catch my breath. I looked at everyone else and they looked shock, she looked at us in cofusion "What?" she asked, "You're a Foulke?" Zilla asked, she mouthed "oh" understanding what we were so shocked about, "Yes that right, I'm a Foulke and I'm daughter of Larry "Pixy" Foulke" she said, and I was really intrigued now "May we hear your story?" I asked and she nodded setting down her water bottle.

"So first off, after my dad's time in ISAF he settled down in Farbanti where he met my mom, then I was born in 2000 and lived a rough life as I was born around the time when Erusea was struggling because of Ulysses, so life was hard and then when things got better. When my dad would tell me stories of fighting in the Belkan War, it inspired me to join the air force but when I was old enough, I ran into a man that you guys call... D00M and he talked to me and told me that he runs an organization and would be happy to offer me a position as a pilot. I agreed and when I went home to tell my parents they were worried for me and my dad... he... you should've seen him there was a look of shame, he didn't agree and asked why I didn't enroll into the Erusean air force and I didn't listen, I was so selfish and stupid that I couldn't think straight. So that night I got into a heated argument with my parents which resulted in me packing my stuff and leaving, I've never seen my parents so hurt and I regret it so much." her eyes fell with deep sadness and the hangar was quiet

"Damn I'm so sorry" Zilla said and she slightly smiled "Yeah but it is what it is and maybe I'll go back someday and apologize" she said and Zilla grinned "And maybe we can go with you, to you know meet Pixy" and in response we and Laura laughed "What, it'd be cool to meet Pixy" he defended with a smile he couldn't hide "I know but that's family business, Zilla" I said and looked at Laura "So do you have anywhere to sleep tonight?" I asked and she shook her head "Well there's always our barracks AND we are not like most men who don't clean, we clean our place" I said, and she was thinking, and she was still hesitant but agreed.

On the way back to the barracks after talking some more in the hangar, I noticed that Zilla and Laura were in the back, shyly talking to one another and sometimes laughing. I couldn't help but smile, maybe my best friend has found someone for him, but I would not jump to conclusion just yet and I won't tell anyone my thoughts as that is not my way.

As we got inside the barracks and got ready for bed, I got a sudden strange feeling a feeling that something was wrong or something bad was going to happen, but I shook it off as an upset stomach. I continued to lay down and slowly drift asleep, today was a good day and maybe tomorrow might be even better.

A/N: the next two chapters will be crazy just heads up