The Eagle's Rise From The Ashes

The meeting of Aces

On board Kain's command ship, 2 days later

"Demon, are you worried at all? I mean, we have to fight the Wolf whenever he and his squadren show themselves," said Aurora. "Yes I am, and I'm not afraid to admit it, we have fought in some crazy battles, Presidia is an examle of that, we were outnumbered fifty to one, but we still pulled through, we fought together as a single unit and as a result we won, although most of those pilots were rookies, hardly an ace in sight, we have never fought someone this skilled before, and I am more than certain it will be a one v one based on his performance," said Demon. then the PA came to life, "attention Crimson squadren, report to your craft immediately, the Wolf has been spotted." "well thats our cue Demon," said Aurora.

Meanwhile in the skies of Copper-9

Galaxy<Good tone Monarch let it fly.> Monarch and Hitman team were dealing with a flight of 10 air cruisers and around 30 migs, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, scratch that, make that 27 migs and 6 air cruisers. Monarch was dealing with the air cruisers and around 5 migs, while the rest of Hitman team cleaned up the rest of the escorts. Monarch shot down two more air cruisers with his laser cannon as Prez came out of nowhere and destroyed all of the migs on Monarch's six. Monarch<Thanks Prez, guess I owe you a drink now.> Prez<ah don't sweat it, we can have some of Galaxy's wine, I managed to snag a couple of bottles, I don't know how many he has but I lost count.> Galaxy<Wait what?> Prez<nothing Galaxy, just saying that Monarch can get me a drink tomorrow.> Galaxy<uh huh, okay then.> Galaxy<heads up, Crimson squadren is on the way, Monarch, didn't you say something about Crimson one being your target and that only you can go for him?> Monarch<Yes, I just want to share a few words with him.> Galaxy<Alright then, he's yours for the taking.> Prez<While you fight him I will keep them off your six Monarch.> Hitman team then destroyed the last of the air cruisers right before Crimson squadren showed up. Lance<Shit, we are too late.> Omega<we got bigger problems now, they are preparing to engage us!> Hitman team simply destroyed the 10 migs that came with Crimson squadren's VX-27s. Titan<wait what?, why did they target our escorts first? do they want to make it just between us or something?> Demon<Doesn't matter now, we need to not die trying to fight these guys.> Aurora<Demon, the Wolf seems to be targeting us, begin evasive manuvers!> Then Crimson 1's comms were overided, and Monarch began speaking. Monarch<Crimson one, the fabeled ace of Cascadia, the man who lead a squadren against a army of mercs and won against overwhelming odds, just to protect your people, you would quit in the middle of a job that would pay you five hundren million credits just to go and defend Cascadia, and I respect that, your people always come first for you, anything else is unimportant.> "what the? why isn't he shooting us down? why would he try to speak to us instead of taking us out?' said demon. Monarch<We worker drones are not too different from Cascadians, we both wanted to be free, to be our own people, unobstructed by the corperations, we both have to defend our worlds, our people, from a onslaught of mercs sent by one of the companies, don't you see?, we are the same, the same story is repeating itself, your place in this story has yet to be set in stone, what side of this story do you wan't to be on? Your father died to slow down the mercanary advance so that you could get to Presidia and prevent its destruction, but alas, Presidia didn't emerge unscathed, bombers manged to slip past you and your squadren, Presidia's anti air defense could only shoot so many down, your entire family died because you couldn't stop the bomber that destroyed the bomb shelter the rest of your family took shelter in, you were angry, the only family you had left was your squadren, you and your squadren went on to avenge the millions of Cascadians who had died, including your family, they could then rest easy now that you had avenged the fallen, but do you think they would be proud of what your doing now? going on to be just like the mercanaries who MURDERED YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY! WHO MUDERED YOUR PEOPLE BY THE DOZENS, MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN! DON'T YOU SEE! YOU WILL BE DESCENDING TO THE SAME LEVEL AS THOSE MONSTERS! DO YOU WANT THAT?! DO YOU WANT TO BECOME JUST LIKE THOSE PEOPLE, WILLING TO KILL AN ENTIRE PEOPLE, ALL FOR SOME MONEY, DO YOU THINK YOUR PEOPLE WILL WANT YOU BACK ON CASCADIA ONCE YOU PULL THAT TRIGGER?! WHAT THEN?! huff, Demon, you use the name of a being of pure evil, but you are a amazing person inside, you would go die if it meant saving your entire people, Aurora, you are named after a beautiful natural phenomena, heh, wonder how you got that, right Demon?> "wait what? what is he hinting at?" thought Demon who could practicall hear the grin Monarch had on his face. Monarch<Crimson one, you still have a chance, you have yet to cross the point of no return, you can help a people that are just like yours, please, think on what I have said, I don't want you making the deaths of milions of your people to be dragged through the mud, to be stained, you have a chance to ensure that you won't have the blood of an entire people on your hands, until we meet again Crimson one.> throughout the entire conversation Monarch and Crimson 1 had been doing insane manuvers, pushing Crimson 1 to the extreme just to keep up. Then Monarch and all of Hitman Team cloaked and flew away. "Demon, are you okay?" asked Aurora who could tell Demons hands were shaking heavily. "I, I'm not sure," said Demon. Lance<Why did they run? how did they just vanish into thin air?>  Omega<I don't know, but I don't care, we manage to survive, though it didn't seem like they were trying to kill us, only testing our ability to handel the Gs.> Titan<As weird as that was, im exhausted from the tight Gs I was pulling, its quite damn impressive how many Gs they can handle.>

11pm, in Crimson teams barrecks

Demon was being haunted by his dead family in his dreams. "You are my son, I died so that you could protect Presidia, and then you do this, how could you, you just made my death pointless!" yelled the ghost of his dad. "You failed to stop that bomber, the least you could of done was make sure our deaths weren't in vain, but here you are, wasting our deaths," said his mother and younger brother. "NO, NOOOO, NOOOOOOO!" screamed Demon as he awoke with a start. Demon began to cry, "what am I going to do?" said Demon quitely to himself. "hey Demon, nightmares again?" asked Aurora who was very concerned for Demon. "Yes and no, its what the Wolf said to us, its really getting to me, he made so many good points, its amost exactly the same as Cascadia, except the fact that they are winning the entire time, while we only just managed to push them back, now my family haunts me, saying I have wasted their deaths, what do I do?" said Demon who was now sobbing. Aurora then walked up to him and hugged Demon, "hey, calm down, we will figure this out, you didn't waste their deaths, we avenged them remember?" said Aurora. "I have not wasted their deaths YET," said Demon who emphasized the last word. Aurora had nothing to say at that, so she setteled with silenty comforting him.

In the US main medical base

"hey I heard that both N and Uzi have a crush on each other but are not willing to admitt it to each other," said a Ranger to a Missile Defender. "Well, the love makers are going around shipping people together so I could call them over here to help out with that," said the Missile defender. "PRIVATE, I SWEAR TO GOD, IF YOU CALL THOSE TWO OVER HERE, I WILL PERSONALY TURN YOU INTO A CHEW TOY FOR SOME COMMANDO DRONES, AND I KNOW SOME THAT REALLY NEED TO LET OFF SOME STEAM, and they really miss the sensation of driking oil from struggiling prey, DO YOU HEAR ME PRIVATE?!" yelled the privates sargent. "Sir yes sir," said the Missile defender(he is only a private) who was now terrified, because he could tell that his sargent meant it. "good, we don't need those two's shenanigans here in this base," said the sargent.