Ace Combat: Shadow War

Chapter 16: Battle of Tyler Island Part 2

3rd Person POV

In the air above Tyler Island, Outcast Squadron flew around the island to make all threats were eliminated. "Looks like we did it, Outcasts" Warfare said cheerfully, "That's all D00M had, that was pathetic" Zilla stated and then from our comms came Halsey's voice "All air units be advised, there are hundreds of blips coming from the west, possibly more enemy aircraft" hearing Halsey's voice personally made Warfare upset but now was not the time for that, they had to see what those what blips were.

Warfare's POV

Turning our aircraft around towards the west, gave me the chance to look down at the damage done by the attack. Transport planes and jets burned on the ramp; it was a blow but not enough. Looking around the skies I noticed maybe 40 friendly aircraft were flying west. "Well, hello Outcast mind if we join you" Counts voice entered our ears and looking back I could Strider Squadron, "Oh please join us, we may need your help" I said and saw them speed up and form up on us.

"Um guys do you see that in the distance?" Zilla asked and looking out towards the horizon, I could see hundreds of dots. I felt a chill run through my body upon seeing all those dots, I heard rumbling and looked over to my left and saw the other 40 friendly aircraft speeding off towards the dots, "What are we waiting for, lets go" Huxian said and Strider went full throttle. I exhaled "Lets follow them" I said and pushed my throttle to full.

(Song: Charge Assault by Namco Sounds)

As the dots came closer and closer very quickly, it soon became clear... that these were bombers like the Tu-160, Tu-95, B-52, and BM-335. My heart sunk upon realizing this and yelled into my mask "Engage them all, those are bombers. We can't let them get to Tyler Island!" I said and the other 40 friendlies launched their missiles, some had 8AAM's, 4AAM's, and for the rest they had basic sidewinders. Strider fired their missiles and I had to react "All Outcast, fire at will" after I said that a lighting bolt tore through the air and missiles followed behind the bolt of lightning. Small explosions caused many of the bombers to crash down to the ocean in a fiery inferno and before we knew it, we were right in the middle of this bomber fleet.

I broke formation and radioed for everyone to break and destroy them all. I pulled a high-g turn towards a bomber and fired two missiles including my machine gun and the bomber exploded. My plane flew through the flames and I did a loop around and locked eyes with two Tu-95s, I sped at them, but they defended themselves with their tail gunners. I barrel rolled to avoid the bullets and retaliated by firing two QAAMs at the two. One explosion tore the tail off one and the other slowly dove down only to smash into another unlucky bomber. "Two for one" I said to myself, I fired my machine gun at another and probably shot up the cockpit because the B-52 angled down and didn't pull back up, I wonder what everyone else is up to.

Zilla's POV

"EML is ready to fire again, Zilla" Laura said, and I took aim at a Tu-160 and fired, the round tore right through the fuselage and the poor bastard exploded. I looked around and spotted a friendly being shot by the bombers tail gunners, "Hello everyone, just to let you know their um escorts are here now" Lanza said, and I looked around and saw dozens of Typhoons engaging the friendlies. "Zilla, Typhoon behind us" Laura alerted me, and I glanced back to see a Typhoon on my tail. "Hang on, Laura" I warned her and put the plane into a post stall maneuver but that didn't work as the Typhoon flew past and high G turned at me, "Okay that didn't work" I said and flew through the forest of enemy bombers that were also shooting at me. The Typhoon fired his missiles at me, and I deployed flares just in time, but he fired his machine gun at me, and some bullets hit the plane. "Okay, Zilla what's the plan?" Laura asked and I sighed "Fuck, I don't know" I said and pulled back on the stick to perform a loop and barely managed to hit him with my machine gun.

"Okay I have a plan but it's crazy" I said, and Laura chuckled "For as long as I've known you, I figured" she said and I myself laughed and proceeded with the plan. I locked eyes with a Tu-95 and circled around to face it, I was now nose to nose with a Tu-95, "Okay Zilla, this is a bit much for me" Laura said and I smiled, I pushed the throttle to full and the Typhoon behind was firing bullets at me and they whizzed by. I closed in on the bomber and noticed that it was turning to avoid me but that wasn't going to happen, when I close enough, I did one swift move and slowed down my jet and pulled a post stall, my belly probably just missed touching the bombers nose and from behind a loud explosion. looking back, I could see the remains of a Tu-95 and a Typhoon falling to the earth below, "That...was...awesome Zilla, a classic move make your enemy crash into one of their own" Laura said excitingly and that honestly made me feel good about myself, "Why thank you but we cant be cheering too early, there's still maybe a hundred or more bombers left" I said, "Your railgun is ready to fire" Laura informed me.

Warfare's POV

My missile made contact with a Tu-160 and the explosion tore the wing right off. Tu-160s were my main targets as they had super sonic capabilities and at any second, they could activate those engines and pull ahead and bomb Tyler Island and destroy valuable planes. I looked out my cockpit and saw that we almost right over Tyler Island, we need to hurry time was running out. "Everyone listen up, time is running out!" I warned, "Shit everyone he's right, we need to pick up the pace" Count said.

I fired my last QAAM at another Tu-160 and flew down in fiery inferno, I cursed to myself and engaged another Tu-160 and prayed to god that we kill every one of them and save the island from total annihilation.

Somewhat's POV

I was running around the base not knowing what to do, I stopped and noticed that C-RAMs were getting in place and once they were, they opened fire at the sky. I followed the beam of bullets to the sky and noticed that there were bombers above us, and they were most likely dropping their bombs. I panicked and looked around for somewhere to hide and spotted a cargo truck left alone on the grass, I darted for the truck and slid underneath it and covered my head with my hands and waited.

They ground shook like there was an earthquake that was followed by a deafening explosion. I clenched my teeth and squeezed my eyes shut, I prayed that no bomb would hit anywhere around me. I started to think about my family, my two daughters, named Juliet and Rose both 5 years old. They were my everything when they were born and still are, they both had the cutest laughs that made me smile and laugh even on my worst days. Then there was my wife, she and I were inseparable, and I loved her with every fiber of my being. If I die right now, I'll never see them again or get to hold them close and tell them I love them and if my wife heard of my death, she'll be devastated and must take care of our kids by herself. As the ground shook and I had to listen to the constant booming, Images of me and family together, from when me and wife first met, our first date, our wedding day, the day Juliet and Rose were brought into this world, to me saying goodbye to my family as I was deployed.

Then the booming and shaking stopped and I looked up and saw the ground was covered in smoke and flames all around. I rolled out from under the truck and looked up to sky and thanked god for protecting me. With that I noticed that many more aircraft were destroyed from the bombings and many buildings were destroyed too, feeling the need to do something I ran in a random to see if I could help anyone in need.

Zilla's POV

I punched the canopy window in rage as some of the bombers managed to get past us, there were only 10 but they did damage to the base. "Relax Zilla we destroyed them all sure they did damage the base, but we downed them all" Laura reassured me, I relaxed a bit but was still agitated from it, I turned the plane around and formed up with everyone. I noticed there were some missing friendlies, "How many did we lose?" I asked and Count responded, "We started out with 40 and we lost 26 friendlies... including Lanza" Count said in sorrow and I was shocked to hear that "W-w-what to happened to Lanza?" I asked and Huxian responded this time, "He was shot by a bombers tail gunner in the chest and him being wounded he took it upon himself to intentionally crash his jet into a bomber" I heard this and was slightly proud that even though he was going to die, he didn't go out without one last attack. "Well we all lost great men and women today but its over, let's go land" I said to everyone and we flew together back to base.