The incident

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"I got two on my six!"

Blank...

"I'm hit! Mayday! Mayday!"

Blank...

"Low altitude. Low altitude. Pull up. Pull up" says the flight instruments.

You try to do something, you try to pull up but you're in shock. Your teamates are being shot down like flies, the right engine of your F/A-18 Hornet is already burning as the fire extinguishers are failing. You sat there, not knowing what to do.

"Torch, on your flank!" Yelled your teamate over the radio. You turned your head to face your left, to notice a hailstorm of bullets begin to fly towards you. Luckily enough, you grabbed the stick of your aircraft and dodged. You pushed your aircraft's speed to its limit, desperately trying to avoid the bullets and missiles.

You pulled the stick to climb. Climbing.. climbing.. I have to lose these missiles..

You fly above the clouds and noticed the enemy planes still after you. You turned left and right and performed evasive manuevers. You looked up and behind to notice a missile, launching the chaft you successfully confuse the missile and dodge it's blast. Before suddenly...

Blank.

You woke up and immediately grabbed the stick of your aircraft, wondering how long you were out for, and how you're still in the air. You looked side to side, and above, trying to spot the enemy fighters to see none.

Letting out a sigh of relief, you spoke into your radio, "guys..? Ace? Thorn? ...John..?" ...no response..

"HQ, this is Dagger-four, please respond, over..." you said, hoping for an answer.

...nothing...

"Repeat, HQ, this is Dagger-One-Four, please respond, over!" Tick-tock.. tick-tock.. nothing..

"God f-cking damnit, what's wrong with my radio-?" You said to yourself.

Limited by fuel, you forced yourself to dive back under the clouds to see you're above some forest. With no way to contact HQ, and your navigation system all f-cked up, you see no way to return to base. You look down below you, trying to determine if there's any flat land for you to land on. None. Crash land will have to suffice. You lowered your velocity, trying to get yourself to slow down as much as possible before hitting the top of the trees, before looking forward to see a tree branch infront of your jet's cockpit canopy. You cover your head and luckily, it didn't break the canopy, but made the aircraft shake hard which then ended up in making you hit your head with a powerful thud against the top of the canopy, knocking you out cold.

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