The Eagle's Rise From The Ashes

Kings

Once the light had died down Crimson team were met with the screams of terror coming from the Cascadian pilots that they were flying with. Cascadian Pilot<My systems are going haywire! I can't maintain my altitude! I'm going down!> Cascadian Pilot<My craft isn't responding, I'm not able to keep it from crashing! AHHH!> All of the Cascadian pilots that were with Crimson plummeted to the ground. Crimson 1 Demon<what the? what's going on? what.......no, no, no, nonono, it can't, it was just a dream, it isn't possible.> Crimson looked down in horror as they saw the roads and ground crack and split, magma flowing out of the cracks, cordium storm clouds covered the sky, and yellow lightning crashed down every so often. 

Unknown<Oh, but it is possible Crimson team, you will pay for what you did to me, I will finish what my father started, how does it feel to have lost the jewel of Cascadia, the very thing you tried so hard to defend, gone in a flash, the millions of lives down there gone.> Lance<Who the hell are you?! and when the hell did we kill your father?> Unknown<hahaha, you really are dense aren't you Lance, you might know me better as Hellhound one, or at least, his son, this fight is between you and my squadron, and the four hundred fighters and two cruisers I brought with me, it's only fair since you didn't give my father and his squadron a fair fight, you taking the Steel Talons with you to kill him, you could of just made it personal, but you had to have mercs do the dirty work.> All of Crimson squadrons' eyes widened in surprise. Omega<You're his son!?> Hellhound 1<yes I am, and you will pay for his death, you will die in an unfair fight just like how my father did, now DIE! *The systems start to blare and go crazy*> Hellhound 1<what the hell? *a message pops up on his screen that says CAUTION-......... with Monarch's logo in the background.>

Monarch<Well, that doesn't even sound remotely fair, why don't we even the odds?> Hellhound 1<Wh-who the hell are you?! how are managing to screw with my craft's systems, this thing is the latest prototype from Icarus Armories! it has the most advance electronics and EW suite, it should be impossible!> Monarch<you put too much faith in what is brand new not being able to be countered, but.... unfortunately for you, we know how to counter it, we still owe Crimson a debt, and we intend on repaying it.> Hellhound 1<you, your one of those damn drones from Copper Nine, the wolf I presume, you came all this way to help Crimson, hah, my pilots are nothing like those arrogant pricks that call themselves the Steel Talons, my pilots actually have proper experience and training, you will die here with Crimson.> demon looked to the right side of his VX-27 and saw Monarch pull up next to him. 

Monarch<don't worry Crimson, we will ensure that this fight is between your squadron and his, alright boys, lets show them how it's done!> as Monarch cut the comms a flight of 196 Raptors slew overhead as 2 beams of blue light came down from the heavens and destroyed the 2 Cruisers. Hellhound pilot<oh shit oh shit oh shit, I got visual contact on two hundred unknown contacts, there not appearing on radar!> Hellhound Pilot<shit, our cruisers are gone! destroyed by some sort of orbital weapon!> Hellhound 1<fine, all pilots, engage those aircraft that are reinforcing Crimson, my squadron, on me, we will destroy Crimson once and for all.>

Begin playing Kings (live Orchestra) by Jose Pavli

The Raptors all broke off to go after the enemy fighters, and the opposing side did the same, leaving Crimson and Hellhound squadron to fly at each other and begin fighting. Hellhound 1<you're a slave to history Demon, once again, you need backup to fight my family.> Demon<Shut up! do you know what you have taken from the Cascadian people?! their homes, and for what? a petty act of revenge?> Hellhound 1<it's not petty, you hunted my father down for revenge, you even worked with the last kind of people you would expect to work with, mercenaries, so I don't see what is so different.> Demon<tell me merc, what will you have to show for yourself? blood, gold, a broken family? even if you shoot me down, where will you go? who will you turn to? we both know how this ends.> Hellhound 1< I know, and it involves you falling to the ground, either way, your life ends today, this is for the good of the galaxy!>

Crimson 1 and Hellhound 1 were doing insane maneuvers, Demon kept making use of his AOA limiter to turn on a dime to both fire missiles into Hellhound 1 and to evade to volleys of micro missiles, and Hellhound 1's aircraft was able to keep up pretty well, and it was capable of eating missiles that hit it, to say the least, Demon was going to need to hit it a lot to take it down. Hellhound 1<you can't run, you can't hide, you made that decision long ago, you can't back out of it now.> Crimson pulled a backflip on the dime and fired off 2 STDMs into Hellhound 1 while dodging a large volley of micro rockets that were launched by Hellhound 1's aircraft. Aurora<Demon, I can't keep up, I'm sorry, *passes out from the Gs*> Hellhound 1<it's just me and you now, no wingmen, no war, no distractions, just you and me, whoever wins is the best pilot.> 

Demon stayed silent, he looked back at Aurora's unconscious body, then he flashed back to his nightmare. Demon<your right, I have no wingmen to back me up right now, they are too busy with your squadron, but at least when this is over, I will still have my squadron, my new family after your father killed my original one!> Demon fired off 2 more STDMs which found their mark, a small secondary explosion following after. Hellhound 1<every safety is coming off, no second chances.> Demon<Hellhound one, do you really think history will see it your way? they will look back and see an act of revenge that went too far.> Hellhound 1<History is written by the victor, not that you will live to see it.> 

Demon pulled a hard right using his AOA limiter and barely dodged the Cordium railgun that the unknown aircraft had, BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM, four streaks of orange shot out and took down 2 prototypes and 1 Raptors. Demon<This is MY home! and I will defend it with my life.> 

Demon then used his AOA limiter to get an attack angle on Hellhound 1 and fired off 3 MLAA missiles and a burst from his autocannon. The MLAAs hit Hellhound 1 and the autocannon rounds tore through the jet, creating 2 secondary explosions. 

Hellhound 1<*static*, no, no, NO! come on, I almost have him, just a little more.> Hellhound 1's aircraft was still flying. Demon flew in and finished off Hellhound 1 with STDMs. Hellhound 1's aircraft had small explosions start to go across its chassis. Hellhound 1<*static*, *cough cough*, Demon, when you hear the thunder..........when the storm comes for you.......remember me....> Hellhound 1's aircraft then exploded into an orange Cordium fireball. Demon was a little caught off guard by his opponent's final words, it was almost as if he was saying don't become like him. Demon looked around and noticed that every enemy aircraft was eliminated. 

Monarch<come on, you need to get to the nearest airfield, oh, and by the way, we were the ones to move the event, we had reason to believe that he was going to attack Presidia because of the event, at most two thousand people died, out of the millions that would have died had we not moved the event. but we didn't expect this...... this death and destruction, *sigh* so many ghosts.> 

Crimson team flew towards the Prospero airport, the entire time they were pondering about what had transpired.