Reverie 》Bob Floyd

Chapter 8

The beach day was exactly what everyone needed. The team was just that, a team. Now functioning well together with few mishaps here and there. Unfortunately, one big mishap was about to happen, to the fault of no one but fate itself. 

"Talk to me Bob," Phoenix calls back to her WSO. 

"We're 12 seconds late on target, we gotta move, we gotta move!" he replies. 

Coyote nods to himself before replaying, "Copy, try and stay with me." 

"Uh, wait who's that?" Bob asks after seeing a boogie appear on his radar. 

"Blue team you've been spotted," Maverick says over the radio. 

Coyote curses, "Shit it's Maverick." 

"What the hell is he doing here?" Phoenix questions. 

"I'm a bandit on course to intercept, Blue Team, what are you gonna do?" Maverick asks. 

Bob keeps his team informed."He's 12 miles left, 10 o'clock and closing." 

"Your call, what do you want to do?" Coyote asks Phoenix, as she was team leader for this particular exercise. 

"Continue, we're close," she says. "Stay on target." She was determined to finish this run, knowing they could pull it off, even with Maverick running interference. 

"He's swinging around to the north," Bob relays. 

"Stay ready for the pop up," Coyote advises. 

"Be ready with my laser Bob!" Phoenix tells him. "Copy I'm on it," he responds. 

But Maverick was still in the sky. "Blue team, Bandit is still closing." 

"Popping up," Coyote says as he pops his plane up. 

"Talk to me Bob, where's the bandit?" Coyote askes. 

"He's 5 miles out, he's coming fast," Bob responded. 

"Targets in sight," Phoenix confirms. 

"Where's my laser Bob?!" Coyote asks. 

"Dead eye, dead eye! It's no good, sorry I can't get a lock." Bob calls out. There was nothing he could do, the technology wouldn't calibrate. 

"We're out of time, I'm dropping blind," Coyote says. He sends the missile. "Damn it! Miss!" 

They start the steep climb out of the canyon, but Coyote starts to fade in and out. 

"That's tone," Maverick says as he locks onto Bob and Phoenix. "Shit we're dead," Phoenix says. 

"Blue team, that's a fail," Maverick informs them. "Level out Coyote." But Coyote doesn't respond. 

Maverick calls to him. "Coyote, talk to me." He tries again. "Coyote come in! Coyote level wings." 

Still nothing. 

"Oh my god he's in GLOC," Maverick realizes. "Coyote, Coyote!" 

"He's gonna burn in!" Phoenix worries. No matter what, they were all still friends. 

"I'm going after him," Maverick says, punching his speed. "Come on, give me tone, give me tone, give me tone." 

He gets a lock on Coyote, using the sound to wake him out of GLOC. "Snap out of it Coyote, come on come on. Break right, break right!" 

Coyote wakes up just in time to steer away from the mountain. 

"There we go kid, you ok?" Maverick asks him.