Into the Bombardment

Bullet to the head

Parked at the end of the main runway of the Firestorm Mercenaries' airbase was a lone Eurofighter Typhoon. The twin EJ200 turbofans hummed with power, while its pilot tested the canards and other hydraulic systems. Behind the controls was Samantha Silacci, going on a lone wolf mission, to kill the last female Sudsikov family member, ______ Sudsikova.

It was about twelve o'clock in the afternoon, and it was blazing hot outside. The sun was beating down into Samantha's cockpit.

Upon finishing testing the hydraulics systems, Samantha popped her knuckles, and took a deep breath in, letting it out, and crossing her fingers that she walks away from this engagement. She would be dogfighting the ultimate Sukhoi Flanker jet, the Su-37 "Flanker-F."

The Sukhoi Su-37 "Flanker-F" was the one Sukhoi that scared the west in 1996. Armed with twelve missile hardpoints, and a Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-301 thirty millimeter revolver cannon, the plane also had thrust vectoring control, and canards, promising almost unparalleled maneuverability.

Samantha contacted air traffic control, requesting clearance to take off, and the world suddenly slowed down.

Air traffic control gave Samantha clearance to take off, to which Samantha disabled the jet's parking brake, and lowered the flaps, applying throttle.

The plane rolled down the runway, reaching its optimal top speed, Samantha lifted her nose gear with the canards, to which the plane lifted off.

Samantha raised the landing gear of the plane and entered a steep climb while enabling supercruise.

She was nervous, seeing she was about to dogfight the meanest female Sudsikov out in South Africa. Her only hope was to lodge a twenty-seven-millimeter bullet into _______'s head, and then fly back to base.

Her jet was armed with four IRIS-T medium range air to air missiles, two AIM-9X "Sidewinder" missiles, four AIM-120 Advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles, four AIM-132 Advanced short-range air-to-air missiles, and an MBDA "Meteor" air-to-air missile, as well as a Mauser-BK twenty seven millimeter revolver cannon, with one hundred and fifty rounds.

Samantha's Eurofighter has always been her weapon of choice, ever since she obtained the plane in a previous conflict about ten years ago in Iran, fighting against the Middle Eastern Alliance.

The plane's flight controls are said to be relaxed and stable, while still being forgiving, due to its digital fly-by-wire flight controls, and canards, promising supermaneuverability.

Upon checking her Active Electronically Scanned Array radar, there was a large green dot, signifying _____ was in the area.

Samantha fired her single meteor air-to-air missile at _____, and turned the missile's camera on, watching the missile careen to the Sukhoi at over two thousand miles per hour.

The missile however missed, to which ______ returned fire with an AA-10 "Alamo" medium range air-to-air missile.

Samantha's missile lock alarm activated, to which Samantha rolled to the right pitched up, dodging _______'s missile. She then launched an AIM-120, and turned the missile's camera on once more, watching the AMRAAM bolt to the Su-37.

The Sukhoi entered a Pugachev's Cobra maneuver to dodge the AMRAAM entering a one hundred and twenty-degree angle of attack and fired another Alamo air-to-air missile, to which Samantha dodged the missile, and fired an IRIS-T air-to-air missile.

_______'s returned fire with an Archer air-to-air missile, to which Samantha dodged the missile, and fired a Sidewinder, crossing her fingers, hoping at least a hit will be amassed.

Hoping the missile would hit ______, it failed to hit her, and Samantha found herself dodging another Alamo air-to-air missile, to which she returned fire with another AMRAAM.

Ten minutes passed by, and Samantha only had a sidewinder, an AMRAAM, and an IRIS-T, and a full magazine in her cannon, while ______ had only a few air-to-air missiles, and a full magazine in her GSh-301 revolver cannon.

The two planes closed in on each other and circled around. Samantha checked her six, seeing ______ was hot on her tail, she rolled and dove down to the ground, dodging an Alamo, and a small burst of ______'s thirty-millimeter, to which she activated the jet's powerful airbrake, and let ______ tear past her.

Samantha fired a burst of her twenty-seven millimeter, as ______ entered a Kulbit maneuver. Everything was going in slow motion, as a single twenty seven millimeter bullet entered the cockpit of the Sukhoi, hitting _____ in the head, a large amount of blood splurged into the cockpit of the plane, as she fired her twenty-seven-millimeter again, she ripped off the starboard side wing of _______'s Sukhoi, watching the plane roll to the right, and fly low to the ground, to which the plane crashed into the South African savanna. Samantha's usually good complexion went ghost white, seeing she just ended ______'s life.

Samantha let out a breath, and flew back to base. She wasn't feeling the same as she was before she engaged ______. She was quiet, and thinking bad thoughts.

The ride back to base was quiet. She lined up with the runway; and contacted air traffic control, requesting clearance to land. Air traffic control responded, giving Samantha clearance to land.

Samantha activated her plane's airbrake, and lifted up the nose landing gear, touching down softly, and activating the plane's brakes.

The plane came to a stop as the canards raised, and the plane was idling. She then taxied the plane to a parking ramp. Upon arriving at the parking spot, next to Tyson's Strike Eagle, she killed the power to the plane, and opened the canopy, climbing out, and walking away from the Eurofighter silently.

She took off her helmet; revealing her green eyes. Her pupils were dilated, and she was breathing heavily, thinking bad thoughts, to eventually be comforted by Tyson.