The Eagle's Rise From The Ashes

Showdown

4 days later, near the north pole of copper-9 at 14,000ft

Galaxy<"alright Hitman team, we have a flight of 8 air cruisers heading to one of the cities in the local area that our forces are trying to secure, command wants us to deal with them and their escorts so that they won't be a problem for our boys down on the ground, be advised though, we won't have comms jammers to cover up our attack, so expect reinforcements to arrive shortly after you engage."> Prez<"acknowledged Galaxy, we will make sure those air cruisers have a meeting with the ground."> Galaxy<"ETA till within missile range is thirty seconds, begin slowing down to mach 2.">

Galaxy<"Good tone, let it fly">. Each of the 4 raptors let loose 5 MLAA missiles. Merc pilot 1<"Incoming missile, evade, evade!"> 14 migs went down and two manage to evade, with another 15 untouched. merc pilot 2<"Shit, I have visual on four enemy contacts heady straight for us!"> merc pilot 3<"How the hell did they sneak up on us? radar should of picked them up"> merc pilot 1<"The Hell? none of my missiles will lock on.">  Merc pilot 2<"heat seaking is the only one that will lock on, use heat seakers.> Monarch was in a dogfight with 5 of the migs, while Prez, Diplomat, and Comic each fought 4. Monarch precceded to simultaneously evade 3 missiles and fired an anti ship missile straight into a air cruiser's ammo storage, destroying it instantly. Merc pilot 4<damn, the guy with the wolf head and crown is good, must be an ace, he manage both evade three missiles and destroy an air cruiser all at the same time.> Merc pilot 5<call it in, we can't beat them on our own, we need backup ASAP.> Galaxy<Hitman team be advised, the escorts just called in for back up, command reports that the Steel Talons arn't taking any chances and are sending in their second best team of Aces, FireHawk sqaudren, though honestly it will take more than those number 2s and 20 additional migs to take y'all down.> Diplomat<thanks for the vote of confidence Galaxy.> Monarch then manage to lose the 5 migs on his tail in the clouds and quckly capitilized on the moment and lined up a shot on another air cruiser, Monarch fired his heavy laser cannon, which tore through the first air cruiser, detinating its fuel and ammo, and continued into a second air cruiser, destroying it as well, and while that was happening the rest of hitman team destroyed the migs they were dealing with and engaged the remaining 5. Firehawk 1<Damn, looks like you all are getting torn to shreds, bloody rookies.> Firehawk 2<hey cut them some slack Firehawk one, they were fighting aces.> Firehawk 3<oh lets see about that, I got the one with the wolfhead and crown.>

(Begin playing project wingman showdown, by Jose Pavli)

Monarch began to chuckle. Monarch<heh, this kid thinks he can go one on one with me, thats fricken hilarious!> Galaxy<oh that guy is so fucken dead.> Prez, Diplomat, and Comic<Agreed.> Firehawk 4<Firehawk 3, cool your jets, we don't know what he is fully capable of!> Firehawk 3<pfft, what? you think me and a couple of migs can't take one worker drone in a jet down?> Firehawk 1<YOU LITERAL JUST SAW HIM KILL TWO AIR CRUISERS IN ASINGLE SHOT YOU BLOODY RETARD!> Monarch began doing a graceful dance of death, evading the near constant hail of tracers and missiles, whenever he dodged he always took a mig down mid dodge, Monarch dodge 5 missiles and at the last second pulled into a roll to dodge the tracer rounds flying at him while at the same time firing a missile at his attacker and taking down another air cruiser. Firehawk 4<Holy shit, this guy has some amazing reaction time, he looks like he could one v four Crimson squadren, and I don't say that lightly.> Firehawk 2<Shit, One is on my tail, firing missile.> Firehawk 2 fired a missile at Monarch who not just evaded to missile but baited it into hitting Firehawk 4. Prez<You little shit, I will kill you for that one.>(she was refering to Firehawk 2) Galaxy in his mind, "good thing I made sure Monarch didn't hear that, don't need him getting distracted by Prez being protective over him, how has he not realized that she likes him, I mean its fairly obvious." Monarch<Im done playing kid, your going down, you've wasted enough of my time.> Firehawk 3<What?> Monarch then hit the brakes and got behind Firehawk 4 and fired a missile that was too close for Firehawk 3 to evade. Firehawk 1<SHIT!, these guys are too good, we can't beat them, there is only one air cruiser left, everyone retreat!> in the time it took Monarch to finish off Firehawk 3 Prez and Comic each with 3 migs on them had been destroying the remaining air cruisers. Diplomat<Your not getting away with that air cruiser> said diplomat as he fired a anti ship missile at the air cruiser which was destroyed instantly by the missile.

Galaxy<Good job hitman team, activate stealth drives and head home, take some rest you all deserve it for effortlessly taking down two of their best aces.>

(stop music)

15 minutes later aboard Kain's command ship

"Oh dear, once again, these worker drones suprise me, they have some damn good pilots and craft, the fact that this one ace alone killed four air cruisers and 23 migs, and two of our best aces, while under fire from several air craft and air cruisers, AGGGHH! I don't have enough Champagne for this, I need to get Crimson squadred on constant alert to deal with these aces," said Kain.

45 minutes later in a briefing room aboard Kain's command ship

"Hey Demon, I wonder whats so important that we had to be called down to be debriefed by Kain himself?" asked Aurora, Crimson 1/Demon's WSO. "I don't know Aurora, but it probaly involves the worker drones, I heard they have some Aces that took down a flight of eight air cruisers and all of their escorts and even managed to kill Firehawk two, three, and four," said Demon. "what? damn, even though there only second best to us, thats still quite impressive, how many were there?" asked Lance, or Crimson 2. "I heard there were only four," said Demon. "Four? against all that, damn thats impressive," said Titan, or crimson 4. "Alright, sorry im late, something came up," said a nervous Kain. "I have called you here because we have discovered that the worker drones have an even more impressive arsenal than we thought, they have fighters and some impressive aces, I am putting all of Crimson team on high alert to deal with these aces, the biggest target of opportunity one with a wolf head and crown, we are dubbing him as 'The wolf' please watch the combat footage we managed to recover," said Kain who had seen it multiple times and still couldn't believe just how skilled just the one was. 

One session of combat footage later

 "Wow," was all Crimson team could say, they have fought against enemy aircraft 4 to one before, but it would always be a series of close calls and several near death experiences in every one of those kind of battles, but this "Wolf" makes it seem easy, like as though its easy to dodge a volley of tracer rounds and kill the attacker and an air cruiser all at the same time, or dodge 6 AA missiles all coming from different directions. "how did worker drones manage to become so skilled?" asked Crimson 3/Omega. "Just who is this guy?" aksed Lance. "we don't know, all we know is that team of aces needs to go, or the skies will be difficult to control," said Kain. "Well, guess we have to deal with this mess," said Demon.

In the US HQ

"Man, Hitman Team gave them one hell of a beatdown," said General Thunderstorm, who couldn't hide his awe. "Yes there are quite impressive, they don't call him Monarch for nothing," said Colonel Burton who was also quite impressed with Hitman team's performance.

In the US Main medical base

"ugh, my head, well im not suprised, the doc did say that the nanites were messing with my CPU so I should of expected headaches," said Uzi who was also feeling an increased amount of heat in her body. "Hey Uzi, im back, I picked up some oil from the mess hall, are you alright Uzi?" said N. He walked up to her and held her head in his hands. "Your burning up, you need to have some oil, your body is overheating..UZI!" said N as Uzi's legs gave out on her and she fell to the ground. N then picked her up in his arms and carried her to the bed and laid her head in his lap. "here Uzi drink this," said N as he held a glass of oil in his hands with the jug on the ground next to him. Uzi gratefully drank the glass of oil and some of her motor functions returned slowly. "Thank you N, im glad your here for me," said Uzi. Uzi while laying in N's lap began to feel something in her, a emotion that she couldn't describe. "what is this emotion im feeling?" thought Uzi to herself.

Author's note: I had to go back and edit this, I had made a mistake with Firehawk sqaudren's call signs, and accidentally refered to Firehawk 3 as Firehawk 4 after Firehawk 4 had already been shot down, I really don't know how I missed that, I only noticed today when I was reading this chapter with a friend, luckily I noticed it and fixed it.