Hawkeye | N. Trace

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Don't you dare

Hawkeye was just sitting there thinking. "You good back there?" Phoenix asked him. "Gee I didn't think you would be concern... yeah just things on my mind." Hawkeye said. "Like what?" Phoenix asked him. "The mission." Hawkeye replied. Before Phoenix could answer, the door opened. "We'll talk later." Phoenix whispered to him and he nodded.

Maverick made his way to front which everyone had their focus on him. He stood in front of a monitor that displayed a flight simulation. "Phase one of the mission will be a low-level attack. You'll be flying along the narrow canyon walls to the target. The surface-to-air missiles defend the skies above, not the canyon below." He explained.

"That's because no one is insane enough to fly below." Rooster commented. "That's exactly what I'm going to train you to do." Maverick responded. He described the low altitudes and high speeds the pilots would be flying for today's simulation. It was an improvement from the actual altitude and speed required for the mission, but it was still worrying. No pilot had ever flown a mission like this before, not even Maverick. "Time to target is two and a half minutes." "Fifth-generation fighter jets wait at a base nearby. You need to get in and you need to get out. This makes time your greatest adversary." Maverick explained.

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Hawkeye was frustrated as he didn't succeed... no one did. Hawkeye looked up at Maverick then Maverick looked at him. He sighed. "Hawkeye... why are you dead?" He asked him. "He made it to the target sir." Dove said. "I was lacking communication sir, but that's not acceptable. I would never live with myself if something happened to Dove and Glory. I would be living with guilt, for a really, really long time." Hawkeye said as he looked at Maverick. Everyone noticed the tension between the two. It stung Maverick bit as he thought back on Goose. Maverick was pleased with Hawkeye's answer and decided to not to question no further then he looked over at Hangman.

"What happened?" He questioned Hangman. A prideful smirk evident on his face, "I flew as fast as I could. Kind of like my life depended on it." He answered and Hawkeye rolled his eyes. "Yeah and your put your team in danger and now your wingman is dead." Rooster criticized him. "They couldn't keep up." Hangman answered. "This isn't NASCAR racing dipshit." Hawkeye spatted. "Trying to be like your father Slider... aren't you?" Hangman said and Hawkeye glared

His Jaw clench when he mention his father. "Why the hell are you bringing my father into this." Hawkeye questioned him as he was staying calm about this. "I mean everyone knows that Slider was Admiral Iceman's Rio back at Top Gun, is he helping you get by?" Hangman questioned. Before Hawkeye questioned him any further. "For your information Bagman.... Hawkeye has worked hard to get to where is he at now, Iceman is a role model, just like everyone in this room. Besides I know Hawkeye has worked his ass off." Phoenix commented. Hawkeye looked at Phoenix and smiled at the woman.

Maverick then turned his attention on Rooster, "Why are you dead?" Maverick questioned him. "Sir, just like Hawkeye, he also made it to the target." Phoenix responded. "A minute late, which gave time for the enemy aircraft to shoot them both down." Maverick replied to Phoenix. "You don't know that." Rooster argued. Hangman sighed. "You're not flying fast enough." He replied. "Why is this a race to you, your thinking is dangerous." Glory said. "You aren't thinking, one wrong move, someone is going to end up dead, I would advise thanking smarter on things like this Bagman." Hawkeye spatted.

"Hawkeye and I made it to the target." Rooster stated. "And superior enemy aircraft intercepted the both of you on your way out." Maverick stated as he looked at both Hangman and Rooster. "Then it's a dog fight." Rooster said. "Against Fifth generation fighters?" Maverick questioned.

"We still have a chance sir." Rooster said not taking a defeat. "In a F-18?" Maverick questioned once more with rueful chuckle at him. "It's not the plane, sir. It's the pilot." Rooster replied. "Exactly!" Maverick flings back. Rooster looks at him for a moment and sighs in stress. "There's way more then just one way to fight on this mission."

"You really don't get it do you?" Hangman turns his head back once again at Rooster. "This mission. A man like Maverick here or He doesn't come back." He looks over at Phoenix "No offense." He winks at her and she scoffed. "Yet somehow, you always manage." Bob said as he made eye contact with Hangman. "Bob is not taking no more bullshit anymore." Glory said, Dove nodded.

"I don't mean, by any chance to criticize your conservative, that's all. We're going into combat. on a level no living pilot has ever seen. Not even him." Hangman said as he looked at Maverick. Maverick gave him a look. "It's no time to be thinking about the past Rooster." Hangman said. "He's not doing what I think he's doing." Dove said. "Yep and this Bagman for you." Glory added "What's that suppose to mean?" Rooster questioned him.

Hawkeye glared at Hangman. "Not again." He muttered shaking his head.

"Rooster." Maverick called out but he ignored him."Hangman, please just stop while you ahead." Dove spatted. "I can't be the only one that knows Maverick flew with his old man and Hawkeye's..." Hangman said. "Okay that's enough." Maverick warned Hangman. "And that Maverick was flying when his old man-." Before Hangman could finish, Rooster leaped out of his chair and tried to go after him, Hawkeye, Phoenix and Bob helped grabbed him while Fanboy, Payback and Coyote grabbed Hangman while Dove and Glory stood in the middle.

"That's enough!" Maverick barked. "You son of a bitch!" Rooster exclaimed at Hangman. "Hey, I'm cool, I'm cool." Hangman said with a smile on his face while looking at Rooster. "You cocky bastard." Hawkeye said and Hangman chuckled. Then Dove smacked Hangman across the face, everyone's eyes widen. "Damn." Payback muttered.

"You know, you don't look cool, you look like a total dick for bring up Hawkeye's and Rooster's Fathers, suck a big one, prick." Dove said as she then stormed out of the room.

"You all are dismissed." Maverick said to everyone.

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Hawkeye got a text from his father, to come by. "Hey, where you heading to?" Phoenix asked as she approached him. "Seeing my father.... you want to come?" Hawkeye asked. "Yeah... I got to meet this famous Slider." Phoenix said and Hawkeye smiled.